Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'I am not going down to the Westminster Parliament to settle down. We are going down there to settle up for Scotland.' Alex Salmond MSP MP, 2 nd March 2001.

Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 42,461 (63.24 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	David Stewart	15,605	36.75 %	+ 2.86 %
	Scottish National Party	Angus MacNeil	10,889	25.64 %	- 3.35 %
	Liberal Democrat	Patsy Kenton	9,420	22.19 %	+ 5.04 %
	Conservative	Richard Jenkins	5,653	13.31 %	- 4.18 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Steve Arnott	894	2.11 %	(+ 2.11 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	4,716	11.11 %	+ 6.21 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 47,768 (72.71 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	David Stewart	16,187	33.89 %	+ 10.72 %
	Scottish National Party	Fergus Ewing	13,848	28.99 %	+ 3.90 %
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Gallagher	8,364	17.51 %	- 9.18 %
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	8,355	17.49 %	- 5.99 %
	Referendum	Winnona Wall	436	0.91 %	(+ 0.91 %)
	Green	Murray Falconer	354	0.74 %	- 0.82 %
	Christian Unity	Daniel Hart	224	0.47 %	(+ 0.47 %)
	Lab gain from Lib Dem	Lab majority	2,339	4.90 %

Notional 1992 result

	Liberal Democrat	12,249	26.69 %
	Scottish National Party	11,513	25.09 %
	Conservative	10,777	23.48 %
	Labour	10,633	23.17 %
	Green	720	1.56%
Lib Dem win	Lib Dem majority	736	1.60 %