Candidates and Constituency Assessments


saltire shield'Glasgow Maryhill is one of those seats in which it is almost possible to imagine a sack of potatoes with a Labour label on it being duly returned to the Mother of Parliaments.'
1983 election assessment from the Scotsman.
Lion Rampant

Glasgow Maryhill

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 22,231 (40.11 %)
LogoPartyCandidateVotes%% change
Labour logo Labour Ann McKechin 13,420 60.37 % - 4.57 %
SNP logo Scottish National Party Alex Dingwall 3,532 15.89 % - 1.58 %
Liberal logo Liberal Democrat Stuart Callison 2,372 10.67 % + 3.54 %
Scottish Socialist Party Gordon Scott 1,745 7.85 % + 6.47 %
Con logo Conservative Gawain Towler 1,162 5.23 % - 0.65 %
Lab hold Lab majority 9,888 44.48 % - 3.51 %

1 st May 1997 (Westminster Election)

Turnout: 29,721 (56.59 %)
LogoPartyCandidateVotes%% change
Labour logo Labour Maria Fyfe 19,301 64.94 % + 2.34 %
SNP logo Scottish National Party Cllr John Wailes 5,037 16.95 % - 2.47 %
Liberal logo Liberal Democrat Elspeth Attwooll 2,119 7.13 % + 0.48 %
Con logo Conservative Stuart Baldwin 1,747 5.88 % - 3.76 %
Natural Law Lorna Blair 651 2.19 % (+ 2.19 %)
Scottish Socialist Alliance Mandy Baker 409 1.38 % (+ 1.38 %)
Pro Life Alliance Jahangir Hanif 344 1.16% (+ 1.16 %)
Referendum logo Referendum Roderick Paterson 77 0.26 % (+ 0.26 %)

SEP Steve Johnstone 36 0.12 % (+ 0.12 %)
Lab hold Lab majority 14,264 47.99 % + 4.81 %

Notional 1992 result

Labour logoLabour21,04262.60 %
SNP logoScottish National Party6,53019.42 %
Con logoConservative3,2419.64 %
Liberal logoLiberal Democrat2,2386.65 %

Others5601.66 %
Lab winLab majority 14,51243.18 %



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