Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'Mole can reveal that the Record's hilarious campaign to 'save Scotland's mince' is not a well-meaning attempt to rescue Elite, an alleged thriller written by Helen Liddell, from the remainder shelves.' Radical Scotland, Aug/Sept 1990.

Greenock & Inverclyde

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 28,419 (59.35 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	David Cairns	14,929	52.53 %	- 3.63 %
	Liberal Democrat	Chic Brodie	5,039	17.73 %	+ 3.92 %
	Scottish National Party	Andrew Murie	4,248	14.95 %	- 3.62 %
	Conservative	Alister Haw	3,000	10.56 %	- 0.90 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Davy Landels	1,203	4.23 %	(+ 4.23 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	9,890	34.80 %	- 2.79 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 34,687 (71.05 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Dr Norman Godman	19,480	56.16 %	+ 8.39 %
	Scottish National Party	Brian Goodall	6,440	18.57 %	+ 1.31 %
	Liberal Democrat	Rod Ackland	4,791	13.81 %	- 0.07 %
	Conservative	Hugo Swire	3,976	11.46 %	- 9.61 %
	Lab hold	Lab majority	13,040	37.59 %	+ 10.89 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	18,319	47.77 %
	Conservative	8,081	21.07 %
	Scottish National Party	6,621	17.26 %
	Liberal Democrat	5,324	13.88 %
	Natural Law Party	37	0.09 %
Labour win	Lab majority	10,238	26.70 %