Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'It is crystal clear that Frank Roy did not act alone, and his resignation reinforces the need for Helen Liddell, John Reid, and Jack McConnell to make public statements, and come clean about their role in this Labour Party fiasco.' John Swinney MP MSP on the Ahern affair, 10 th February 2001.

Motherwell & Wishaw

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 29,673 (56.61 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Frank Roy	16,681	56.22 %	- 1.18 %
	Scottish National Party	James McGuigan	5,725	19.29 %	- 3.18 %
	Conservative	Mark Nolan	3,155	10.63 %	- 0.36 %
	Liberal Democrat	Iain Brown	2,791	9.41 %	+ 3.04 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Stephen Smellie	1,260	4.25 %	(+ 4.25 %)
	Socialist Labour Party	Claire Watt	61	0.21 %	- 0.39 %
	Lab hold	Labour majority	10,956	36.93 %	+ 2.00 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 36,619 (70.08 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Frank Roy	21,020	57.40 %	+ 0.87 %
	Scottish National Party	James McGuigan	8,229	22.47 %	+ 1.04 %
	Conservative	Scott Dickson	4,024	10.99 %	- 4.61 %
	Liberal Democrat	Alex Mackie	2,331	6.37 %	+ 0.31 %
	Socialist Labour Party	Chris Herriot	797	2.18%	(+ 2.18 %)
	Referendum	Thomas Russell	218	0.60 %	(+ 0.60 %)
	Lab hold	Labour majority	12,791	34.93 %	- 0.20 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	22,691	56.53 %
	Scottish National Party	8,601	21.43 %
	Conservative	6,264	15.60 %
	Liberal Democrat	2,433	6.06 %
	Independent Labour	146	0.36 %
Labour win	Labour majority	14,090	35.11 %