Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'The mere setting up of Parliaments does nothing to improve the quality of government or the relationship with those who are governed.' Wee Brian Wilson (now Thatcherite Labour MP for Cunninghame North), while Chairman of 'Labour Vote No' in 1979.

Cunninghame North

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 33,816 (61.49 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Brian Wilson	15,571	46.05 %	- 4.25 %
	Scottish National Party	Campbell Martin	7,173	21.21 %	+ 2.77 %
	Conservative	Richard Wilkinson	6,666	19.71 %	- 3.75 %
	Liberal Democrat	Ross Chmiel	3,060	9.05 %	+ 3.53 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Sean Scott	964	2.85 %	(+ 2.85 %)
	Socialist Labour Party	Louise McDaid	382	1.13 %	- 0 09 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	8,398	24.84 %	- 2.00 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 41,129 (74.07 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Brian Wilson	20,686	50.30 %	+ 9.33 %
	Conservative	Cllr Margaret Mitchell	9,647	23.46 %	- 10.65 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Kim Nicoll	7,584	18.44 %	+ 0.22 %
	Liberal Democrat	Karen Freel	2,271	5.52 %	- 1.16 %
	Socialist Labour Party	Louise McDaid	501	1.22 %	(+ 1.22 %)
	Referendum	Ian Winton	440	1.07%	(+ 1.07 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	11,039	26.84 %	+ 19.98 %

9 th April 1992 Westminster election (no boundary change)

Turnout: 42,866 (78.14 %)
	Labour	Brian Wilson	17,564	40.97 %	- 3.39 %
	Conservative	Edith Clarkson	14,625	34.11 %	+ 0.07 %
	Scottish National Party	David Crossan	7,813	18.22 %	+ 8.71 %
	Liberal Democrat	Douglas Herbison	2,864	6.68 %	- 5.41 %
	Lab win	Lab majority	2,939	6.86 %	- 3.46 %