Local Government By-elections

saltire shield'Rent an island off the coast of Scotland where we could collect all the remaining Scottish Conservatives and they could live in the wild blue yonder thereafter - Rockall would be about the right size.'
George Galloway, July 1993.		Lion Rampant

Forth (South Lanarkshire) 1 st June 1995

This election was not a by-election. Due to the death of one of the candidates, the election in ward 15 (Forth) of South Lanarkshire was not held on the 5 th of April, but postponed until the 1st of June.

On the 1st of June the seat was a head to head contest between Labour and the Scottish National Party. Labour took the ward with 65% of the vote and a majority of 370 over the SNP. The turnout was 43.0 %.

I am grateful to Colin Gray for providing information about this election.

Forth

1st June 19956 th April 1995
J. RobertsLab78165.5 %no election
Ms M. TaitSNP41134.5 %no election
Lab gainLab maj37031.0 %no election
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