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'For me and Tommy McAvoy it was a free vote for us because we had been to see the chief whip.'
Government whip John McFall waxes eloquence as he explains why he voted against a Three Line Whip, 2 nd April 1998.

Lion Rampant

Dumbarton

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 33,994 (60.42 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	John McFall	16,151	47.51 %	- 2.10 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Iain Robertson	6,576	19.34 %	- 3.89 %
	Liberal Democrat	Eric Thomson	5,265	15.49 %	+ 7.87 %
	Conservative	Peter Ramsey	4,648	13.67 %	- 3.98 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Les Robertson	1,354	3.98 %	+ 3.29 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	9,575	28.17 %	+ 1.79 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 41,264 (73.39 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	John McFall	20,479	49.61 %	+ 5.97 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Bill Mackechnie	9,587	23.23 %	+ 4.82 %
	Conservative	Peter Ramsey	7,283	17.65 %	- 12.09 %
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Reid	3,144	7.62 %	- 0.14 %
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Les Robertson	283	0.69 %	(+ 0.69 %)
	Referendum	George Dempster	255	0.62 %	(+ 0.62 %)
	UK Independence Party	Robert Lancaster	242	0.59 %	(+ 0.59 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,883	26.38 %	+ 12.49 %

9 th April 1992 Westminster election (no boundary change)

Turnout: 44,125 (76.22 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	John McFall	19,255	43.64 %	+ 0.61 %
	Conservative	Tom Begg	13,126	29.74 %	- 1.93 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Bill McKechnie	8,127	18.41 %	+ 6.30 %
	Liberal Democrat	John Morrison	3,425	7.76 %	- 5.43 %
	Natural Law Party	Diana Kras	192	0.43 %	(+ 0.43 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	6,129	13.89 %	+ 2.53 %

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