Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'This is the largest bunch of political nonentities in political history. Some of them have been MPs for five, 10, 20 years, and nobody knows who they are. They have disappeared from the political landscape.' Alex Salmond MSP MP, 2 nd March 2001.

Dundee West

7 th June Westminster Election

Turnout: 29,242 (54.39 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Ernie Ross	14,787	50.57 %	- 3.22 %
	Scottish National Party	Gordon Archer	7,987	27.31 %	+ 4.08 %
	Conservative	Ian Hail	2,656	9.08 %	- 4.07 %
	Liberal Democrat	Dr Elizabeth Dick	2,620	8.96 %	+ 1.30 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Jim McFarlane	1,192	4.08 %	+ 2.98 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	6,800	23.26 %	- 7.30 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 38,807 (67.67 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Ernie Ross	20,875	53.79 %	+ 6.13 %
	Scottish National Party	John Dorward	9,016	23.23 %	- 1.32 %
	Conservative	Cllr Neil Powrie	5,105	13.15 %	- 5.69 %
	Liberal Democrat	Elizabeth Dick	2,972	7.66 %	+ 0.17 %
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Mary Ward	428	1.10 %	(+ 1.10 %)
	Referendum	John MacMillan	411	1.06 %	(+ 1.06 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	11,859	30.56 %	+ 7.45 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	19,520	47.66 %
	Scottish National Party	10,056	24.55 %
	Conservative	7,717	18.84 %
	Liberal Democrat	3,071	7.49 %
	Others	591	1.44 %
Lab win	Lab majority	9,464	23.11 %