Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Despite the claim made at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Perth in 1977 by William Ross, Scotland's longest serving Secretary of State, that devolution had been part of Labour policy since 1945, the truth of the matter is that by the early 1950s the concept of Home Rule in any form had receded into the political background.' Tam Dalyell in Devolution, the end of Britain?

Linlithgow

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 31,655 (57.98 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Sir Thomas (Tam) Dalyell of the Binns	17,207	54.36 %	+ 0.22 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Jim Sibbald	8,078	25.52 %	- 1.29 %
	Conservative	Gordon Lindhurst	2,836	8.96 %	- 3.56 %
	Liberal Democrat	Martin Oliver	2,628	8.30 %	+ 2.42 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Eddie Cornock	695	2.20 %	(+ 2.20 %)
	Rock n Roll Loony Party	Helen Cronin	211	0.67 %	0.67 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	9,129	28.84 %	+ 1.51 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 39,654 (73.84 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Sir Thomas (Tam) Dalyell of the Binns	21,469	54.14 %	+ 4.95 %
	Scottish National Party	Kenny MacAskill	10,631	26.81 %	- 3.33 %
	Conservative	Cllr Tom Kerr	4,964	12.52 %	- 1.19 %
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Duncan	2,331	5.88 %	- 1.06 %
	Referendum	Kenneth Plomer	259	0.65 %	(+ 0.65 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,838	27.33 %	+ 8.28 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	20,137	49.19 %
	Scottish National Party	12,340	30.14 %
	Conservative	5,613	13.71 %
	Liberal Democrat	2,843	6.94 %
Labour win	Labour maj.	7,797	19.05 %