Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'The Liberal Democrats have taken a lurch to the right. Whilst there are many good people in the party at local level, the Scottish leadership seems entirely in thrall to London, and entirely obsessed with the possibility of getting a seat at the Blair Cabinet table.' Cllr Rhona Kemp, former Lib Dem Convenor of Grampian Council, 23 rd September 1998.

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7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 35,001 (58.34 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Bruce	15,928	45.51 %	+ 2.90 %
	Conservative	Nanette Milne	8,049	23.00 %	- 3.04 %
	Scottish National Party	Rhona Kemp	5,760	16.46 %	- 3.51 %
	Labour	Ellis Thorpe	4,730	13.51 %	+ 3.21 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	John Sangster	534	1.53 %	(+ 1.53 %)
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	7,879	22.51 %	+ 5.94 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 42,245 (71.89 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Bruce	17,999	42.61 %	+ 15.42 %
	Conservative	John Porter	11,002	26.04 %	- 21.91 %
	Scottish National Party	Richard Lochhead	8,435	19.97 %	+ 1.39 %
	Labour	Lindsey Kirkhill	4,350	10.30 %	+ 4.04 %
	Referendum	Fred Pidcock	459	1.09 %	(+ 1.09 %)
	Lib Dem hold (notional Lib Dem gain from Con)	Lib Dem majority	6,997	16.57 %

Notional 1992 result

	Conservative	19,596	47.95 %
	Liberal Democrat	11,110	27.19%
	Scottish National Party	7593	18.58 %
	Labour	2,561	6.26 %
Con win	Con majority	8,486	20.77 %