Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'For too long people in this city have had to put up with the failure of other parties to recognise what we have in this city, and the potential that remains untapped. The SNP still has a vital role to play at Westminster despite the advent of the Scottish Parliament. London still holds the purse strings and takes many crucial decisions on things like taxation, pensions and the oil industry.' Wayne Gault, SNP PPC for Aberdeen Central, February 2001.

Aberdeen Central

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 26,429 (52.75 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Frank Doran	12,025	45.50 %	- 4.32 %
	Scottish National Party	Wayne Gault	5,379	20.35 %	+ 4.16 %
	Liberal Democrat	Dr Eleanor Anderson	4,547	17.20 %	+ 3.96 %
	Conservative	Stewart Whyte	3,761	14.23 %	- 5.27 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Andy Cumbers	717	2.71 %	(+ 2.71 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	6,646	25.15 %	- 5.17 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 35,616 (65.64 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Frank Doran	17,745	49.82 %	+ 6.74 %
	Conservative	Jill Wisely	6,944	19.50 %	- 9.29 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Brian Toppin	5,767	16.19 %	- 1.38 %
	Liberal Democrat	John Brown	4,714	13.24 %	+ 2.69 %
	Referendum	James Farquharson	446	1.25 %	(+ 1.25 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,801	30.32 %	+ 16.03 %

Notional 1992 result

Logo	Party	Votes	%
	Labour	16,269	43.08 %
	Conservative	10,872	28.79 %
	Scottish National Party	6,636	17.57 %
	Liberal Democrat	3,985	10.55 %
Labour win	Lab majority	5,397	14.29 %