Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Devotion to the Union is a bit like smoking, you know it is not good for you but it's hard to give up.' David Alec Gorman, in the Herald 23 rd September 1996.

Kilmarnock & Loudoun

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 37,665 (61.70 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Desmond Browne	19,926	52.90 %	+ 3.08 %
	Scottish National Party	John Brady	9,592	25.47 %	- 9.05 %
	Conservative	Donald Reece	3,943	10.47 %	- 0.34 %
	Liberal Democrat	John Stewart	3,177	8.43 %	+ 4.44 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Jason Muir	1,027	2.73 %	(+ 2.73 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,334	27.43 %	+ 12.13 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 47,409 (77.24 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Desmond Browne	23,621	49.82 %	+ 5.05 %
	Scottish National Party	Alex Neil	16,365	34.52 %	+ 3.82 %
	Conservative	Douglas Taylor	5,125	10.81 %	- 8.21 %
	Liberal Democrat	John Stewart	1,891	3.99 %	- 1.49 %
	Referendum	William Sneddon	284	0.60 %	(+ 0.60 %)
	Natural Law	William Gilmour	123	0.26 %	(+ 0.26 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	7,256	15.30 %	+ 1.23 %

9 April 1992 Westminster Election (no boundary change)

Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Willie McKelevy	22,210	44.77 %	- 3.74 %
	Alex Neil	Scottish National Party	15,231	30.70 %	+ 12.53 %
	Conservative	Richard Wilkinson	9,438	19.02 %	- 0.59 %
	Liberal Democrat	Kate Philbrick	2,722	5.48 %	- 8.22 %
	Labour hold	Lab majority	6,979	14.07 %	- 14.83 %