 | 'Donald Dewar conceded that things had not been going well, and Reid suggested there had been 'heightened expectations of change', which is a polite way of saying Dewar had screwed up the first Scottish government in 300 years.' Iain MacWhirter in the Sunday Herald, 19 th March 2000. |  |
| Turnout: 26,722 (50.14 %) | |||||
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| Logo | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | % change |
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Labour | John Robertson | 15,102 | 56.52 % | - 5.32 % |
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Scottish National Party | Grant Thoms | 4,048 | 15.15 % | - 1.96 % |
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Liberal Democrat | Christopher McGinty | 3,244 | 12.14 % | + 4.90% |
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Conservative | Stewart Connel | 2,651 | 9.92 % | - 1.54 % |
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Scottish Socialist Party | Charlie McCarthy | 1,486 | 5.56 % | + 4.88 % |
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Socialist Labour Party | Katherine McGavigan | 191 | 0.71 % | (+ 0.71 %) |
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Lab hold | Lab majority | 11,054 | 41.37 % | - 3.36 % |
| Logo | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | % change |
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| Labour | John Robertson | 10,539 | 52.14 % | - 9.70 % |
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Scottish National Party | Grant Thoms | 4,202 | 20.79 % | + 3.68 % |
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Conservative | Dorothy Luckhurst | 2,188 | 10.83 % | -0.63 % |
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Liberal Democrat | Christopher McGinty | 1,630 | 8.06 % | + 0.82 % |
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Scottish Socialist Party | Charlie McCarthy | 1,441 | 7.13 % | + 6.45 % |
| Family Action Movement | William Lynden | 212 | 1.05 % | + 1.05 % | |
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Lab hold | Lab majority | 6,337 | 31.35 % | - 12.38 % |
| Turnout: 33,879 (63.98 %) | |||||
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| Logo | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | % change |
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Labour | Donald Dewar | 20,951 | 61.84 % | + 8.77 % |
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Scottish National Party | Dr William Wilson | 5,957 | 17.11 % | + 0.10 % |
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Conservative | Andrew Brocklehurst | 3,881 | 11.46 % | - 4.18 % |
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Liberal Democrat | Christopher McGinty | 2,453 | 7.24 % | - 6.46 % |
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Pro Life Alliance | Akhtar Majid | 374 | 1.10 % | (+ 1.10 %) |
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Scottish Socialist Alliance | Bill Bonnar | 229 | 0.68 % | (+ 0.68 %) |
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UK Independence | Alan Milligan | 86 | 0.25 % | (+ 0.25 %) |
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Referendum | Gillian McKay | 84 | 0.25 % | (+ 0.25 %) |
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Natural Law | Thomas Pringle | 24 | 0.07 % | (+ 0.07 %) |
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Lab hold | Lab majority | 15,154 | 44.73 % | + 8.67 % |
| Labour | 20,000 | 53.07% |
| Scottish National Party | 6,411 | 17.01% |
| Conservative | 5,895 | 15.64% |
| Liberal Democrat | 5,166 | 13.70% |
| Others | 213 | 0.56% | |
| Lab win | Lab majority | 13,589 | 36.06% |
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