Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'The Lib Dems swallow the most indigestible of Labour policies. They have allowed the theft of 6000 square miles of Scottish fishing waters, re-announcements of the same money again and again and let us not forget their verbal somersaults on tuition fees.' SNP President Dr Winnie Ewing at the 2000 SNP Conference.

Moray

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 33,223 (57.27 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Scottish National Party	Angus Robertson	10,076	30.33 %	- 11.24 %
	Labour	Catriona Munro	8,332	25.08 %	+ 5.25 %
	Conservative	Frank Spencer-Nairn	7,677	23.11 %	- 4.46 %
	Liberal Democrat	Linda Gorn	5,224	15.72 %	+ 6.80 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Norma Anderson	821	2.47 %	(+ 2.47 %)
	Moray Independent	Bill Jappy	802	2.41 %	(+ 2.41 %)
	UK Independence Party	Nigel Kenyon	291	0.88 %	(+ 0.88 %)
	SNP hold	SNP majority	1,744	5.25 %	- 8.75 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 39,766 (68.21 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Scottish National Party	Margaret Ewing	16,529	41.57 %	- 3.04 %
	Conservative	Andrew Findlay	10,963	27.57 %	- 9.96 %
	Labour	Lewis MacDonald	7,886	19.83 %	+ 7.95 %
	Liberal Democrat	Debra Storr	3,548	8.92 %	+ 2.96 %
	Referendum	Paddy Mieklejohn	840	2.11 %	(+ 2.11 %)
	SNP hold	SNP majority	5,566	14.00 %	+ 6.92 %

Notional 1992 result

	Scottish National Party	18,444	44.61 %
	Conservative	15,517	37.53 %
	Labour	4,913	11.88 %
	Liberal Democrat	2,466	5.96 %
SNP win	SNP majority	2,927	7.08 %