Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'When I held up my Call My Bluff card to the Prime Minister a couple of weeks back, I should have given it to Jim Wallace.' Alex Salmond MSP for Banff & Buchan, 13 th May 1999.

Orkney & Shetland

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 16,733 (52.44 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Alistair Carmichael	6,919	41.35 %	- 10.64 %
	Labour	Robbie Mochrie	3,444	20.58 %	+ 2.31 %
	Conservative	John Firth	3,121	18.65 %	+ 6.42 %
	Scottish National Party	John Mowat	2,473	14.78 %	+ 2.08 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Peter Andrews	776	4.64 %	(+ 4.64 %)
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	3,475	20.77 %	- 12.95 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 20,665 (64.00 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Jim Wallace QC	10,743	51.99 %	+ 5.57 %
	Labour	James Paton	3,775	18.27 %	- 1.57 %
	Scottish National Party	Willie Ross	2,624	12.70 %	+ 1.55 %
	Conservative	Hope Vere Anderson	2,527	12.23 %	- 9.79 %
	Referendum	Francis Adamson	820	3.97 %	(+ 3.97 %)
	Natural Law Party	Caroline Wharton	116	0.56 %	+ 0.01 %
	Independent	Arthur Robertson	60	0.29 %	(+ 0.29 %)
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	6,968	33.72 %	+ 9.32 %

9 April 1992 Westminster Election (no boundary change)

Turnout: 20,626 (64.79 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Jim Wallace QC	9,575	46.42 %	+ 4.76 %
	Conservative	Dr Paul McCormick	4,542	22.02 %	- 1.24 %
	Labour	J.H. Aberdein	4,093	19.84 %	+ 0.40 %
	Scottish National Party	Frances McKie	2,301	11.15 %	(+ 11.15 %)
	Natural Law	Caroline Wharton	115	0.55 %	(+ 0.55 %)
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	5,033	24.40 %	+ 6.00 %