Results 1997

'Sovereignty remains with me as an English MP and that is the way it will stay.' The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.

Final result after all 72 declarations:

		Labour		SNP		Conservative		Lib Dem	Others
Votes 1992	1,142,865		629,552		752,589		383,856		24,182
Votes 1997	1,283,353		617,260		493,059		365,359		53,408
% vote 1992	39.04 %		21.45 %		25.77 %		12.90 %		0.84 %
% vote 1997	45.63 %		21.94 %		17.53 %		12.99 %		1.91 %
MPs elected 1992	49		3		11		9		0
MPs elected 1997	56		6		0		10		0
Labour majority of 40

• Labour win Aberdeen South, Ayr, Dumfries, Eastwood, Edinburgh Pentlands and Stirling from Conservatives
  
• Labour win Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber from Lib Dems
  
• Labour hold Glasgow Govan, Kilmarnock & Loudoun, Ochil and Western Isles

• SNP win Galloway & Nithsdale, Perth and Tayside North from Conservatives
  
• SNP hold Angus, Banff & Buchan and Moray

• Lib Dems lose Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber to Labour
  
• Lib Dems win Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine and Edinburgh West from Conservatives
  
• Lib Dems hold Argyll & Bute, Gordon and Tweedale, Ettrick & Lauderdale

• Conservatives lose Aberdeen South, Ayr, Dumfries, Eastwood, Edinburgh Pentlands and Stirling to Labour
  
• Conservatives lose Galloway & Nithsdale, Perth and Tayside North to SNP
  
• Conservatives lose Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine and Edinburgh West to Lib Dems

All 72 results in detail

• 1 Aberdeen Central (NEW SEAT Lab gain - notional Lab hold)

• 2 Aberdeen North (Lab hold)

• 3 Aberdeen South (Lab gain from Con)

• 4 Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine (Lib Dem gain from Con)

• 5 Airdrie & Shotts (Lab hold)

• 6 Angus (SNP hold)

• 7 Argyll & Bute (Lib Dem hold)

• 8 Ayr (Lab gain from Con - notional Lab hold)

• 9 Banff & Buchan (SNP hold)

• 10 Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross (Lib Dem hold)

• 11 Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley (Lab hold)

• 12 Clydebank & Milngavie (Lab hold)

• 13 Clydesdale (Lab hold)

• 14 Coatbridge & Chryston (Lab hold)

• 15 Cumbernauld & Kilsyth (Lab hold)

• 16 Cunninghame North (Lab hold)

• 17 Cunninghame South (Lab hold)

• 18 Dumbarton (Lab hold)

• 19 Dumfries (Lab gain from Con)

• 20 Dundee East (Lab hold)

• 21 Dundee West (Lab hold)

• 22 Dunfermline East (Lab hold)

• 23 Dunfermline West (Lab hold)

• 24 East Kilbride (Lab hold)

• 25 East Lothian (Lab hold)

• 26 Eastwood (Lab gain from Con)

• 27 Edinburgh Central (Lab hold)

• 28 Edinburgh East & Musselburgh (Lab hold)

• 29 Edinburgh North & Leith (Lab hold)

• 30 Edinburgh Pentlands (Lab gain from Con)

• 31 Edinburgh South (Lab hold)

• 32 Edinburgh West (Lib Dem gain from Con)

• 33 Falkirk East (Lab hold)

• 34 Falkirk West (Lab hold)

• 35 Fife Central (Lab hold)

• 36 Fife North East (Lib Dem hold)

• 37 Galloway & Upper Nithsdale (SNP gain from Con)

• 38 Glasgow Anniesland (Lab hold)

• 39 Glasgow Baillieston (Lab hold)

• 40 Glasgow Cathcart (Lab hold)

• 41 Glasgow Govan (Lab hold)

• 42 Glasgow Kelvin (Lab hold)

• 43 Glasgow Maryhill (Lab hold)

• 44 Glasgow Pollok (Lab hold)

• 45 Glasgow Rutherglen (Lab hold)

• 46 Glasgow Shettleston (Lab hold)

• 47 Glasgow Springburn (Lab hold)

• 48 Gordon Lib Dem hold (notional Lib Dem gain from Con)

• 49 Greenock & Inverclyde (Lab hold)

• 50 Hamilton North & Bellshill (Lab hold)

• 51 Hamilton South (Lab hold)

• 52 Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber (Lab gain from Lib Dem)

• 53 Kilmarnock & Loudoun (Lab hold)

• 54 Kirkcaldy (Lab hold)

• 55 Linlithgow (Lab hold)

• 56 Livingston (Lab hold)

• 57 Midlothian (Lab hold)

• 58 Moray (SNP hold)

• 59 Motherwell & Wishaw (Lab hold)

• 60 Ochil (Lab hold)

• 61 Orkney & Shetland (Lib Dem hold)

• 62 Paisley North (Lab hold)

• 63 Paisley South (Lab hold)

• 64 Perth (SNP hold - notional SNP gain from Con)

• 65 Renfrewshire West (Lab hold)

• 66 Ross, Skye & Inverness West (Lib Dem hold)

• 67 Roxburgh & Berwickshire (Lib Dem hold)

• 68 Stirling (Lab gain from Con)

• 69 Strathkelvin & Bearsden (Lab hold)

• 70 Tayside North (SNP gain from Con)

• 71 Tweedale, Ettrick & Lauderdale (Lib Dem hold)

• 72 Western Isles (Lab hold)

The Man Who Would Be King
Hopes dashed in Stirling