Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'The only deal I am looking for is the abolition of tuition fees. That's our manifesto, that's what I campaigned for, and that's what the people supported.' John Farquhar-Munro, Lib Dem MSP for Ross, Skye & Inverness West, 13 th May 1999.

Ross, Skye & Inverness West

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 34,812 (61.59 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Kennedy	18,832	54.10 %	+ 15.38 %
	Labour	Donald Crichton	5,880	16.89 %	- 11.77 %
	Scottish National Party	Jean Urquhart	4,901	14.08 %	- 5.49 %
	Conservative	Angus Laing	3,096	8.89 %	- 2.04 %
	Scottish Green Party	Eleanor Scott	699	2.01 %	+ 1.24 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Stuart Topp	683	1.96 %	(+ 1.96 %)
	UK Independence Party	Philip Anderson	456	1.31 %	(+ 1.31 %)
	Countryside Party	Jim Crawford	265	0.76 %	(+ 0.76 %)
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	12,952	37.21 %	+ 27.15 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 39,955 (71.81 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Kennedy	15,472	38.72 %	+ 0.05 %
	Labour	Donnie Munro	11,453	28.66 %	+ 9.80 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Margaret Paterson	7,821	19.57 %	+ 0.76 %
	Conservative	Mary MacLeod	4,368	10.93 %	- 10.92 %
	Referendum	Les Durance	535	1.34 %	(+ 1.34 %)
	Green	Alan Hopkins	306	0.77%	- 1.00 %
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	4,019	10.06 %	- 6.76 %

1992 notional result

	Liberal Democrat	14,957	38.67 %
	Conservative	8,452	21.85 %
	Labour	7,296	18.86 %
	Scottish National Party	7,276	18.81 %
	Green	688	1.77 %
Lib Dem win	Lib Dem majority	6,505	16.82 %