Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'One peculiar feeling I have is a sense of liberation, because I now feel free to speak and act any way I wish. Despite never having voted against the Labour whip in six years, I have not made the panel, therefore I need feel no inhibitions now.' Ian Davidson, Labour MP for Glasgow Pollok, after being rejected as a Labour Scottish parliament candidate by Rosemary McKenna's Network cabal, 14 th June 1998.

Glasgow Pollok

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 25,277 (51.37 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Ian Davidson	15,497	61.31 %	+ 1.40 %
	Scottish National Party	David Ritchie	4,229	16.73 %	- 1.14 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Keith Baldesarra	2,522	9.98 %	- 1.11 %
	Liberal Democrat	Isabel Nelson	1,612	6.38 %	+ 2.91 %
	Conservative	Rory O'Brien	1,417	5.61 %	- 0.42 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	11,268	44.58 %	+ 2.54 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 32,802 (66.56 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Ian Davidson	19,653	59.91 %	+ 10.06 %
	Scottish National Party	David Logan	5,862	17.87 %	- 7.10 %
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Tommy Sheridan	3,639	11.09 %	-1.56 %
	Conservative	Edwin Hamilton	1,979	6.03 %	- 2.14 %
	Liberal Democrat	David Jago	1,137	3.47 %	0.86 %
	Pro Life Alliance	Monica Gott	380	1.16 %	(+ 1.16 %)
	Referendum	Derek Haldane	152	0.46%	(+ 0.46 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	13,791	42.04 %	+ 17.17 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	18,945	49.85%
	Scottish National Party	9,492	24.97 %
	Militant Labour	4,811	12.65 %
	Conservative	3,107	8.17 %
	Liberal Democrat	1,648	4.33 %
Lab win	Lab majority	9,453	24.87 %