Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Robin Cook. An old left politician who demonstrated against the presence in Scotland of Polaris nuclear missiles in the 1970s, Cook is now Foreign Secretary in a government committed to the even more powerful Trident. The ethical dimension of his foreign policy has included selling arms to Indonesia and Zimbabwe, neither country being known for its democratic principles.' Trevor Royle in the Sunday Herald, 29 th April 2001.

Livingston

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 36,033 (55.56 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Rt Hon Robin Cook	19,108	53.03 %	- 1.86 %
	Scottish National Party	Graham Sutherland	8,492	23.57 %	- 3.89 %
	Liberal Democrat	Gordon Mackenzie	3,969	11.01 %	+ 4.30 %
	Conservative	Ian Mowatt	2,995	8.31 %	- 1.09 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Wendy Milne	1,110	3.08 %	(+ 3.08 %)
	UK Independence Party	Robert Kingdom	359	1.00 %	(+ 1.00 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,916	29.46 %	+ 2.03 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 42,834 (71.04 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Rt Hon Robin Cook	23,510	54.89 %	+ 9.05 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Peter Johnston	11,763	27.46 %	+ 1.52 %
	Conservative	Hugh Craigie Halkett	4,028	9.40 %	- 8.71 %
	Liberal Democrat	Ewan Hawthorn	2,876	6.71 %	- 2.08 %
	Referendum	Helen Campbell	444	1.04 %	(+ 1.04 %)
	Socialist	Matt Culbert	213	0.50 %	(+ 0.50 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	11,747	27.43 %	+ 7.53 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	19,461	45.84 %
	Scottish National Party	11,013	25.94 %
	Conservative	7,689	18.11 %
	Liberal Democrat	3,857	9.08 %
	Green	425	1.00 %
Labour win	Lab majority	8,448	19.90 %