Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'I can hardly recognise the Labour Party now because of the policy changes we have had.' John Home Robertson, Labour MP for East Lothian, in the Sunday Express 12 th May 1996.

East Lothian

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 36,871 (62.51 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Anne Picking	17,407	47.21 %	- 5.47 %
	Conservative	Hamish Mair	6,577	17.84 %	- 2.10 %
	Liberal Democrat	Judy Hayman	6,506	17.65 %	+ 7.12 %
	Scottish National Party	Hilary Brown	5,381	14.59 %	- 1.12 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Derrick White	624	1.69 %	(+ 1.69 %)
	Socialist Labour Party	Jake Herriot	376	1.02 %	(+ 1.02 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,830	29.37 %	- 3.37 %

I am grateful to Cllr David Berry for pointing out that the results for the SSP and SLP were juxtaposed in certain media reports.

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 43,432 (75.61 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	John Home Robertson	22,881	52.68 %	+ 7.22 %
	Conservative	Murdo Fraser	8,660	19.94 %	- 10.24 %
	Scottish National Party	David McCarthy	6,825	15.71 %	+ 2.43 %
	Liberal Democrat	Alison MacAskill	4,575	10.53 %	- 0.54 %
	Referendum	Norman Nash	491	1.13 %	(+ 1.13 %)
	Lab win	Lab majority	14,221	32.74 %	+ 17.46 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	21,123	45.46 %
	Conservative	14,024	30.18 %
	Scottish National Party	6,171	13.28 %
	Liberal Democrat	5,147	11.07 %
Labour win	Lab majority	7,099	15.28 %