Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'One of the cornerstones of the NHS has always been general practice, offering personalised family care to everyone. That is now being eroded as GPs are asked to do too much with too little. Low morale and dissatisfaction with the system cannot continue without being detrimental to patients.' Dr Kenneth Harden, Chairman of the Scottish General Practitioners Committee, 14 th February 2001.

Glasgow Cathcart

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 27,386 (52.57 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Tom Harris	14,902	54.41 %	- 1.76 %
	Scottish National Party	Josephine Docherty	4,086	14.92 %	- 5.35 %
	Conservative	Richard Cook	3,662	13.37 %	+ 0.92 %
	Liberal Democrat	Tom Henerey	3,006	10.98 %	+ 4.32 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Ronnie Stevenson	1,730	6.32 %	+ 4.98 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,816	39.49 %	+ 3.59 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 34,110 (69.17 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	John Maxton	19,158	56.17 %	+ 6.83 %
	Scottish National Party	Marie Whitehead	6,913	20.27 %	+ 1.18 %
	Conservative	Alistair Muir	4,248	12.45 %	- 9.07 %
	Liberal Democrat	Keith Legg	2,302	6.75 %	- 0.45 %
	Pro Life Alliance	Zofia Indyk	687	2.01%	(+ 2.01 %)
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Ronnie Stevenson	458	1.34 %	(+ 1.34 %)
	Referendum	Strang Haldane	344	1.01 %	(+ 1.01 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	12,245	35.90 %	+ 8.08 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	18,719	49.34 %
	Conservative	8,167	21.52 %
	Scottish National Party	7,244	19.09 %
	Liberal Democrat	2,732	7.20 %
	Others	1,072	2.82 %
Lab win	Lab majority	10,552	27.82 %