UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		40,683/48,957	83.10
Hugh McCartney	Labour Party	16,439	40.41
Michael William Hirst	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,775	24.03
James Reid	Communist Party	5,928	14.57
Andrew Paton Welsh	Scottish National Party	5,906	14.52
Thomas Colin Harvey	Liberal Party	2,583	6.35
Stephen John Hammond	Workers Revolutionary Party	52	0.13
Majority		6,664	16.38

10 October 1974		39,393/49,358	79.81
Hugh McCartney	Labour Party	15,837	40.20
Alexander Cameron Wilson Aitken	Scottish National Party	11,452	29.07
Michael William Hirst	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,792	17.24
James Reid	Communist Party	3,417	8.67
James Edward Cameron	Liberal Party	1,895	4.81
Majority		4,385	11.13

3 May 1979		39,510/49,381	80.01
Hugh McCartney	Labour Party	20,515	51.92
Hon Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,512	21.54
William Lindsay	Scottish National Party	6,055	15.33
Eleanor Elsie McCreadie	Liberal Party	3,099	7.84
Daniel McCafferty	Communist Party	1,017	2.57
Robert Darroch	CD	312	0.79
Majority		12,003	30.38