Candidates and Constituency Assessments


saltire shield'The LibDems have continually failed to put policy into practice. It has become impossible to regard the Liberals' environmental commitments as anything other than a trick, to be discarded if there is any electoral advantage to be had from a contrary view.'
Ex SDP and Lib Dem election candidate Stewart Callison.
Lion Rampant

East Dunbartonshire

Westminster Election, 5 th May 2005

Electorate 64,763 Turnout: 72.15 %
Logo Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal logo Liberal Democrat Jo Swinson 19,533 41.81 %
Labour logo Labour John Lyons MP 15,472 33.11 %
Conservative logo Conservative & Unionist David Jack 7,708 16.50 %
SNP logo Scottish National Party Christopher Sagan 2,708 5.81 %
Green Scottish Green Party Stewart Callison 876 1.87 %
SSP Scottish Socialist Party Pamela Page 419 0.90 %
Liberal logo Notional Liberal Democrat gain from Labour Liberal Democrat majority 4,061 8.69 %

Notional 2001 result

Logo Party Denver
Baxter
Votes % Votes %
Labour logo Labour 13,792 33.33 % 15,787 38.19 %
Liberal Democrat logo Liberal Democrat 11,191 27.05 % 10,385 25.12 %
Scottish Tory logo Conservative & Unionist 9,290 22.45 % 8,246 19.95 %
Scottish National Party logo Scottish National Party 6,099 14.74 % 5,868 14.19 %
Scottish Socialist Party logo Scottish Socialist Party 1,006 2.43 % 1,053 2.55 %
Notional Labour win Notional Labour majority 2,601 6.29 % 5,402 13.07 %


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