Candidates and Constituency Assessments

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Cunninghame South

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 28,009 (56.04 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Brian Donohoe	16,424	58.64 %	- 4.09 %
	Scottish National Party	Bill Kidd	5,194	18.54 %	- 2.24 %
	Conservative	Pamela Paterson	2,682	9.58 %	- 0.50%
	Liberal Democrat	John Boyd	2,094	7.48 %	+ 2.95 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Rosemary Byrne	1,233	4.40 %	(+ 4.40 %)
	Socialist Labour Party	Bobby Cochran	382	1.36 %	- 0.03 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	11,230	40.10 %	- 1.85 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 35,444 (62.73 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Brian Donohoe	22,233	62.73 %	+ 9.80 %
	Scottish National Party	Margaret Burgess	7,364	20.78 %	- 3.44 %
	Conservative	Pamela Paterson	3,571	10.08 %	- 6.24 %
	Liberal Democrat	Erland Watson	1,604	4.53 %	- 1.65 %
	Socialist Labour Party	Krishna Edwin	494	1.39 %	(+ 1.39 %)
	Referendum	Allan Martlew	178	0.50 %	(+0.50 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	14,869	41.95 %	+ 13.23 %

9 th April 1992 Westminster election (no boundary change)

Turnout: 37,821 (76.03 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Brian Donahoe	19,687	52.93 %	- 7.90 %
	Scottish National Party	Ricky Bell	9,007	24.22 %	+ 13.21 %
	Conservative	Sebastian Leslie	6,070	16.32 %	+ 0.01 %
	Liberal Democrat	Brian Ashley	2,299	6.18 %	- 5.67 %
	Natural Law Party	William Jackson	128	0.34 %	(+ 0.34 %)
	Lab win	Lab majority	10,680	28.72 %	- 15.80 %