Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Suddenly, there are few good reasons not to contemplate replacing Tony Blair with a more traditional Labour leader.' Tim Luckhurst in the Herald, 25 th January 2001.

Glasgow Kelvin

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 26,802 (43.56 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	George Galloway	12,014	44.83 %	- 6.14 %
	Liberal Democrat	Tamsin Mayberry	4,754	17.74 %	+ 3.56 %
	Scottish National Party	Frank Rankin	4,513	16.84 %	- 4.53 %
	Conservative	Davena Rankin	2,388	8.91 %	- 1.93 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Heather Ritchie	1,847	6.89 %	+ 5.71 %
	Scottish Green Party	Tim Shand	1,286	4.80 %	(+ 4.80 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	7,260	27.09 %	- 2.51 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 32,654 (56.85 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	George Galloway	16,643	50.97 %	+ 4.11 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Sandra White	6,978	21.37 %	+ 2.10 %
	Liberal Democrat	Elspeth Buchanan	4,629	14.18 %	- 4.72 %
	Conservative	Duncan McPhie	3,539	10.84 %	-2.31 %
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Allan Green	386	1.18 %	(+ 1.18 %)
	Referendum	Robert Grigor	282	0.86 %	(+ 0.86 %)
	Socialist	Vic Vanni	102	0.31 %	(+ 0.31 %)
	Natural Law Party	George Stidolph	95	0.29 %	(+ 0.29 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	9,665	29.60 %	+ 2.02 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	16,971	46.86 %
	Scottish National Party	6,982	19.27 %
	Liberal Democrat	6,848	18.90 %
	Conservative	4,765	13.15 %
	Others	649	1.79 %
Lab win	Lab majority	9,989	27.58 %