Candidates and Constituency Assessments

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Glasgow Shettleston

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 20,465 (39.69 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	David Marshall	13,235	64.67 %	- 8.49 %
	Scottish National Party	Jim Byrne	3,417	16.70 %	+ 2.72 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Rosie Kane	1,396	6.82 %	+ 5.02 %
	Liberal Democrat	Lewis Hutton	1,105	5.40 %	+ 1.44 %
	Conservative	Campbell Murdoch	1,082	5.29 %	- 0.24 %
	Socialist Labour Party	Murdo Ritchie	230	1.12 %	(+ 1.12 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	9,818	47.97 %	- 11.21 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 26,813 (55.87 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	David Marshall	19,616	73.16 %	+ 7.66 %
	Scottish National Party	Humayun Hanif	3,748	13.98 %	- 2.17 %
	Conservative	Colin Simpson	1,484	5.53 %	- 6.69 %
	Liberal Democrat	Kerry Hiles	1,061	3.96 %	- 2.15 %
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Christine McVicar	482	1.80 %	(+ 1.80 %)
	British National Party	Robert Currie	191	0.71%	(+ 0.71 %)
	Referendum	Thomas Montguire	151	0.56 %	(+ 0.56 %)
	Workers Revolutionary Party	John Graham	80	0.30 %	(+ 0.30 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	15,868	59.18 %	+ 9.84 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	20,767	65.50 %
	Scottish National Party	5,123	16.15 %
	Conservative	3,876	12.22 %
	Liberal Democrat	1,939	6.11 %
Lab win	Lab majority	15,644	49.34 %