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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		47,867/60,335	79.34
Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay	Labour Party	22,469	46.94
Arthur John Armstrong Bell	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,087	27.34
Roger Thompson Knox	Scottish National Party	12,311	25.72
Majority		9,382	19.60

10 October 1974		45,602/60,824	74.97
Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay	Labour Party	20,688	45.37
Roger Thompson Knox	Scottish National Party	14,587	31.99
Robert Brannock Jones	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,539	16.53
Fergus Gray Young	Liberal Party	2,788	6.11
Majority		6,101	13.38

3 May 1979		47,251/61,057	77.39
Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay	Labour Party	25,449	53.86
Jean Hazel Stewart	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,386	26.21
Andrew Currie	Scottish National Party	9,416	19.93
Majority		13,063	27.65

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		38,155/53,643	71.13
Harry Philp Heggie Gourlay	Labour Party	15,380	40.31
Iain Barclay Walker	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,049	26.34
Malcolm Black	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	9,274	24.31
David Dundas Wood	Scottish National Party	3,452	9.05
Majority		5,331	13.97

20 April 1987 Death of Harry Gourlay.

11 June 1987		40,904/53,922	75.86
Dr Lewis George Moonie	Labour and Co-operative Party	20,281	49.58
Iain Grant Mitchell	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,711	21.30
David Stewart	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	7,118	17.40
William Arthur Roger Mullin	Scottish National Party	4,794	11.72
Majority		11,570	28.29

9 April 1992		38,853/51,762	75.06
Dr Lewis George Moonie	Labour and Co-operative Party	17,887	46.04
Stewart Hosie	Scottish National Party	8,761	22.55
Stephen Paul Wosley	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,476	21.82
Susan Leslie	Liberal Democrats	3,729	9.60
Majority		9,126	23.49

1 May 1997		34,973/52,186	67.02
Dr Lewis George Moonie	Labour and Co-operative Party	18,730	53.56
Stewart Hosie	Scottish National Party	8,020	22.93
Charlotte Black	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,779	13.66
John MacIver Mainland	Liberal Democrats	3,031	8.67
Victor Baxter	Referendum Party	413	1.18
Majority		10,710	30.62

7 June 2001		28,157/51,559	54.61
Dr Lewis George Moonie	Labour and Co-operative Party	15,227	54.08
Shirley-Anne Somerville	Scottish National Party	6,264	22.25
Scott Campbell	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,013	10.70
Andrew William Weston	Liberal Democrats	2,849	10.12
Douglas Kinnear	Scottish Socialist	804	2.86
Majority		8,963	31.83