Paisley South Electoral Statistics

'Senior Labour sources yesterday said that efforts had been made to ruin the reputations of Mrs Adams and Mr Godman, who were friends of Mr McMaster, as part of a bitter power-struggle for the control of Renfrewshire politics.'
Jason Allerdyce, in the Scotsman, 5 th August 1997.

Previous election results in Paisley South

Paisley South - General Election 1 st May 1997

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour/Co-op	Gordon McMaster	21,482	57.51%
Scottish National Party	Cllr Bill Martin	8,732	23.38%
Liberal Democrat	Eileen McCartin	3,500	9.37%
Conservative	Robert Reid	3,237	8.67%
Referendum	James Lardner	254	0.68%
Scottish Socialist Alliance	Sean Clerkin	146	0.39%
Lab hold	Lab majority	12,750	34.13%

Paisley South 1992 General Election - Notional result on new boundaries

	Labour/Co-op	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%

Paisley South - General Election 9 th April 1992

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour/Co-op	Gordon McMaster	18,202	50.7 %
Scottish National Party	Iain Lawson	8,653	24.1 %
Conservative	Ms. S.G. Laidlaw	5,703	15.9 %
Liberal Democrat	A. Reid	3,271	9.1 %
Natural Law Party	Sean Clerkin	93*	0.2 %
Lab hold	Lab majority	9,549	26.6 %

Paisley South - by-election 29th November 1990

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour/Co-op	Gordon McMaster	12,485	46.1 %
Scottish National Party	Iain Lawson	7,455	27.5 %
Conservative	J.C. Workman	3,627	13.4 %
Liberal Democrat	A. Reid	2,660	9.8 %
Scottish Green Party	Ms. E.R. Collie	835*	3.1 %
Lab hold	Lab majority	5,030	18.6 %

Paisley South - General election June 11 th 1987

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Norman Buchan	21,611	56.2 %
Liberal/Alliance	A.M. Carmichael	5,826	15.1 %
Conservative	Miss D.A. Williamson	5,644	14.7 %
Scottish National Party	J.T. Mitchell	5,398	14.0 %
Lab hold	Lab majority	15,785	41.1 %

Paisley South - General election June 9 th 1983

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Norman Buchan	15,633	41.4 %
Liberal/Alliance	Mrs. E.M. Buchanan	9,104	24.1 %
Conservative	J. Knox	5,644	20.7 %
Scottish National Party	J.T. Mitchell	4,918	13.1 %
Ecology Party	D.G. Mellor	271*	0.7 %
Lab hold	Lab majority	6,529	17.3 %

Paisley - General Election 3 rd May 1979

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	Allen Adams	25,894	48.2 %
Conservative	G. Wills	12,139	22.6 %
Scottish Labour Party	B. Monaghan	8,111	15.1 %
Scottish National Party	David Rollo	7,305	13.6 %
Communist Party	Mrs J. Tait	145*	0.3 %
Workers Revolutionary Party	T. White	122*	0.2 %
Lab gain from Scottish Labour Party	Lab majority	13,755	25.6 %

Paisley - General election 10 th October 1974

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Labour	John Robertson	21,368	44.8 %
Scottish National Party	David Rollo	15,778	33.1 %
Conservative	Robertson	7,440	15.6 %
Liberal	Thomson	3,116	6.5 %
Lab hold	Lab majority	5,590	11.7 %

Results in graphical format

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