UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Renamed with no Boundary Change
28 February 1974		48,884/56,977	85.80
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr Ancram, Earl of Ancram	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,234	43.44
Prof John Pitcairn Mackintosh	Labour Party	20,694	42.33
Dr David Rae Fisher Simpson	Scottish National Party	6,956	14.23
Majority		540	1.10

10 October 1974		47,458/57,503	82.53
Prof John Pitcairn Mackintosh	Labour Party	20,682	43.58
Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr Ancram, Earl of Ancram	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,642	37.17
Dr Ronald Dorward Macleod	Scottish National Party	6,323	13.32
Charles Frederick Yeaman Lawson	Liberal Party	2,811	5.92
Majority		3,040	6.41

30 July 1978 Death of Prof John Mackintosh.

26 October 1978		43,290/60,782	71.22
John David Home Robertson	Labour Party	20,530	47.42
Margaret Christine Macrae Marshall	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,418	40.24
Isobel Lindsay	Scottish National Party	3,799	8.78
Thomas Glen	Liberal Party	1,543	3.56
Majority		3,112	7.19

3 May 1979		50,529/60,919	82.94
John David Home Robertson	Labour Party	21,977	43.49
Margaret Christine Macrae Marshall	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,304	40.18
Thomas Glen	Liberal Party	4,948	9.79
William John Allan Macartney	Scottish National Party	3,300	6.53
Majority		1,673	3.31