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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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1 May 1997		33,091/46,562	71.07
George Islay Macneill Robertson	Labour Party	21,709	65.60
Ian Black	Scottish National Party	5,831	17.62
Robert Dow Kilgour	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,858	8.64
Richard Pitts	Liberal Democrats	1,693	5.12
Colin Stuart Gunn	Pro-Life Alliance	684	2.07
Stuart Wilson Brown	Referendum Party	316	0.95
Majority		15,878	47.98

24 August 1999 Elevation of Rt Hon George Robertson to the peerage - Lord Robertson of Port Ellen - following his appointment as Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).

23 September 1999		19,455/47,081	41.32
Bill Tynan	Labour Party	7,172	36.86
Annabelle Janet Ewing	Scottish National Party	6,616	34.01
Shareen Blackall	Scottish Socialist	1,847	9.49
Charles Ferguson	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,406	7.23
Stephen A Mungall	Independent	1,075	5.53
Marilyne Angela MacLaren	Liberal Democrats	635	3.26
Monica Burns	Pro-Life Alliance	257	1.32
Tom Dewar	Socialist Labour	238	1.22
James W Reid	Scottish Unionist	113	0.58
Alistair David McConnachie	UK Independence Party	61	0.31
George William Stidolph	Natural Law Party	18	0.09
John S H Drummond Murray	Status Quo	17	0.09
Majority		556	2.86

John Drummond Murray sought election as "Status Quo".

Steve Mungall sought election as "Hamilton Accies Home, Watson Away".

7 June 2001		26,750/46,665	57.32
Bill Tynan	Labour Party	15,965	59.68
John Gordon Wilson	Scottish National Party	5,190	19.40
John Oswald	Liberal Democrats	2,381	8.90
Neil Richardson	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,876	7.01
Georgina Mitchell	Scottish Socialist	1,187	4.44
Janice Elizabeth Murdoch	UK Independence Party	151	0.56
Majority		10,775	40.28