Candidates and Constituency Assessments

Turnout: 30,536 (57.24 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Douglas Alexander	17,830	58.39 %	+ 1.18 %
	Scottish National Party	Councillor Brian Lawson	5,920	19.39 %	- 3.99 %
	Liberal Democrat	Brian O'Malley	3,178	10.41 %	+ 1.04 %
	Conservative	Andrew Cossar	2,301	7.54 %	- 1.13 %
	Scottish Socialist Party	Frances Curran	835	2.73 %	+ 2.34 %
	ProLife Alliance	Patricia Graham	346	1.13 %	(+ 1.13 %)
	Independent	Terence O'Donnell	126	0.41 %	(+ 0.41 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	11,910	39.00 %	+ 4.87 %

6 th November 1997 Westminster By-Election

Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Douglas Alexander	10,346	43.98 %	- 13.53 %
	Scottish National Party	Ian Blackford	7,615	32.37 %	+ 8.99 %
	Liberal Democrat	Cllr Eileen McCartin	2,582	10.98 %	+ 1.61 %
	Conservative	Shiela Lawson	1,643	6.98 %	- 1.69
	ProLife Alliance	John Deighan	578*	2.46 %	(+ 2.46 %)
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Frances Curran	306*	1.30 %	+ 0.91 %
	Scottish Independent Labour, Justified and Ancient	Charles McLauchlan	155*	0.66 %	(+ 0.66 %)
	Socialist Labour Party	Chris Herriot	153*	0.65 %	(+ 0.65 %)
	Natural Law Party	Kenneth Blair	57*	0.24 %	(+ 0.24 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	2,731	11.61 %	- 22.52 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster General Election

Turnout: 37,351 (69.12 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Gordon McMaster	21,482	57.51 %	+ 6.71 %
	Scottish National Party	Cllr Bill Martin	8,732	23.38 %	- 1.18 %
	Liberal Democrat	Cllr Eileen McCartin	3,500	9.37 %	+ 0.48 %
	Conservative	Robert Reid	3,237	8.67 %	- 6.69 %
	Referendum	James Lardner	254	0.68 %	(+0.68 %)
	Scottish Socialist Alliance	Sean Clerkin	146	0.39 %	(+ 0.39 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	12,750	34.13 %	+ 7.89 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	20,268	50.80 %
	Scottish National Party	9,799	24.56 %
	Conservative	6,129	15.36 %
	Liberal Democrat	3,548	8.89 %
	Others	150	0.37 %
Labour win	Lab majority	10,469	26.24 %