Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Are the Lib-Dems the party of silly walks, because John Cleese is a supporter? Or just the party of daft policies?' Denis Campbell in the Herald, 25 th September 1998.

Roxburgh & Berwickshire

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 28,797 (61.19 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Archie Kirkwood	14,044	48.77 %	+ 2.27 %
	Conservative	George Turnbull	6,533	22.69 %	- 1.18 %
	Labour	Lady Catherine Maxwell Stuart of Traquair	4,498	15.62 %	+ 0.66 %
	Scottish National Party	Roderick Campbell	2,806	9.74 %	- 1.59 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Amanda Millar	463	1.61 %	(+ 1.61 %)
	UK Independence	Peter Neilson	453	1.57 %	+ 0.99 %
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	7,511	26.08 %	+ 3.45 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 34,931 (73.91 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Liberal Democrat	Archie Kirkwood	16,243	46.50 %	+ 0.04 %
	Conservative	Douglas Younger	8,337	23.87 %	- 10.28 %
	Labour	Helen Eadie	5,226	14.96 %	+ 6.21 %
	Scottish National Party	Malcolm Balfour	3,959	11.33 %	+ 0.71 %
	Referendum	John Curtis	922	2.64 %	(+ 2.64 %)
	UK Independence	Peter Neilson	202	0.58 %	(+ 0.58 %)
	Natural Law Party	David Lucas	42	0.12 %	(+ 0.12 %)
	Lib Dem hold	Lib Dem majority	7,906	22.63 %	+ 10.32 %

Notional 1992 result

	Liberal Democrat	16,807	46.46 %
	Conservative	12,354	34.15 %
	Scottish National Party	3,844	10.62 %
	Labour	3,167	8.75 %
	Liberal	14	0.03 %
Lib Dem win	Lib Dem majority	4,453	12.31 %