Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Labour councillors were among a group of visitors cleared from the public gallery yesterday during first minister's questions in the Scottish parliament after one of them, John Letford from Dundee, shouted 'you are a disgrace to the Labour party' when Ms Boyack was speaking.' Murray Ritchie in the Herald, 2 nd February 2001.

Dundee East

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 32,358 (57.24 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Cllr Iain Luke	14,635	45.23 %	- 5.89 %
	Scottish National Party	Stewart Hosie	10,160	31.40 %	+ 4.86 %
	Conservative	Alan Donnelly	3,900	12.05 %	- 3.73 %
	Liberal Democrat	Raymond Lawrie	2,784	8.60 %	+ 4.46 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Harvey Duke	879	2.72 %	+ 2.15 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	4,475	13.83 %	- 10.75 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 40,528 (69.41 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	John McAllion	20,718	51.12 %	+ 6.78 %
	Scottish National Party	Shona Robison	10,757	26.54 %	- 5.54 %
	Conservative	Cllr Bruce Mackie	6,397	15.78 %	- 2.65 %
	Liberal Democrat	Gurudeo Saluja	1,677	4.14 %	- 0.16 %
	Referendum	Edward Galloway	601	1.48 %	(+ 1.48 %)
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Harvey Duke	232	0.57 %	(+ 0.57 %)
	Natural Law	Elisabeth MacKenzie	146	0.36%	(+ 0.36 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	9,961	24.58 %	+ 12.32 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	19,954	44.34 %
	Scottish National Party	14,437	32.08 %
	Conservative	8,297	18.43 %
	Liberal Democrat	1,939	4.30 %
	Others	372	0.82 %
Lab win	Lab majority	5,517	12.26 %