Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'I saw a man getting more than one ballot paper. I saw one man vote five times. He held up the five papers against a wall and marked his cross on all of them. Other members watched this happening.' David Brown, a former Labour Glasgow District councillor, concerning alleged irregularities in the selection of Gordon Jackson, QC, as Labour's candidate in Glasgow Govan.

Glasgow Govan

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 25,284 (46.76 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Mohammad Sarwar	12,464	49.30 %	+ 5.21 %
	Scottish National Party	Karen Neary	6,064	23.98 %	- 11.07 %
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Stewart	2,815	11.13 %	+ 5.19 %
	Conservative	Mark Menzies	2,167	8.57 %	- 0.24 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Wullie McGartland	1,531	6.06 %	- 1.74 %
	Communist Party	John Foster	174	0.69 %	(+ 0.69 %)
	Independent	Badar Mirza	69	0.27 %	(+ 0.27 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	6,400	25.32 %	+ 16.28 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 32,242 (64.70 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Cllr Mohammad Sarwar	14,216	44.09 %	+ 1.05 %
	Scottish National Party	Nicola Sturgeon	11,302	35.05 %	+ 7.42 %
	Conservative	William Thomas	2,839	8.81 %	- 10.87 %
	Liberal Democrat	Bob Stewart	1,915	5.94 %	+ 0.36 %
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Alan McCombes	755	2.34 %	(+ 2.34 %)
	Independent	Peter Paton	325	1.01%	(+ 1.01 %)
	Independent Labour	Islam Badar	319	0.99 %	(+ 0.99 %)
	Independent Conservative	Zahid Abbasi	221	0.69%	(+ 0.69 %)
	Referendum	Kenneth MacDonald	201	0.62 %	(+ 0.62 %)
	BNP	Jim White	149	0.46 %	(+ 0.46 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	2,914	9.04 %	- 6.37 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	15,665	43.04 %
	Scottish National Party	10,056	27.63 %
	Conservative	7,165	19.68 %
	Liberal Democrat	2,033	5.58 %
	Others	1,475	4.05 %
Lab win	Lab majority	5,609	15.41 %