Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Not since Satan denounced sin have I heard such recantation' Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major on the disgraced former minister Peter Mandelson's warnings that devolution could fracture the United Kingdom, 2 nd February 1999.

Glasgow Baillieston

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 23,261 (47.21 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	James Wray	14,200	61.05 %	- 4.64 %
	Scottish National Party	Lachlan McNeill	4,361	18.75 %	- 0.35 %
	Conservative	David Comrie	1,580	6.79 %	- 0.96 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Jim McVicar	1,569	6.75 %	+ 3.70 %
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Dundas	1,551	6.67 %	+ 2.85 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	9,839	42.30 %	- 4.29 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 31,853 (65.69 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	James Wray	20,925	65.69 %	+ 2.48 %
	Scottish National Party	Patsy Thomson	6,085	19.10 %	- 3.46 %
	Conservative	Malcolm Kelly	2,468	7.75 %	- 2.14 %
	Liberal Democrat	Shiela Rainger	1,217	3.82 %	- 0.49 %
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Jim McVicar	970	3.05 %	(+ 3.05 %)
	Referendum	John McClafferty	188	0.59 %	(+ 0.59 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	14,840	46.59 %	+ 5.94 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	22,030	63.21 %
	Scottish National Party	7,865	22.56 %
	Conservative	3,448	9.89 %
	Liberal Democrat	1,505	4.31 %
Lab win	Lab majority	14,165	40.65 %