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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		37,745/52,839	71.43
Norman Findlay Buchan	Labour Party	15,633	41.42
Elspeth McKay Buchanan	Liberal Party in Alliance	9,104	24.12
Joseph Knox	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,819	20.72
James Robert Mitchell	Scottish National Party	4,918	13.03
David George Mellor	Ecology Party	271	0.72
Majority		6,529	17.30

11 June 1987		38,479/51,834	74.24
Norman Findlay Buchan	Labour Party	21,611	56.16
Alexander Morrison Carmichael	Liberal Party in Alliance	5,826	15.14
Dorothy Ann Williamson	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,644	14.67
James Robert Mitchell	Scottish National Party	5,398	14.03
Majority		15,785	41.02

23 October 1990 Death of Norman Buchan.

29 November 1990		27,062/51,834	52.21
Gordon James McMaster	Labour and Co-operative Party	12,485	46.13
Iain Macdonald Lawson	Scottish National Party	7,455	27.55
John Cowper-White	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,627	13.40
Alan Reid	Liberal Democrats	2,660	9.83
Elizabeth Reid Collie	Green Party	835	3.09
Majority		5,030	18.59

9 April 1992		35,922/47,889	75.01
Gordon James McMaster	Labour and Co-operative Party	18,202	50.67
Iain Macdonald Lawson	Scottish National Party	8,653	24.09
Sheila Galloway Laidlaw	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,703	15.88
Alan Reid	Liberal Democrats	3,271	9.11
Stephen Rex Porter	Natural Law Party	93	0.26
Majority		9,549	26.58

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		37,351/54,040	69.12
Gordon James McMaster	Labour and Co-operative Party	21,482	57.51
William Martin	Scottish National Party	8,732	23.38
Eileen F Patricia McCartin	Liberal Democrats	3,500	9.37
Robert William Rankin Reid	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,237	8.67
James Lardner	Referendum Party	254	0.68
Sean Anthony Clerkin	Scottish Socialist	146	0.39
Majority		12,750	34.14

28 July 1997 Death of Gordon McMaster.

6 November 1997		23,435/54,573	42.94
Douglas Garven Alexander	Labour Party	10,346	44.15
Ian Blackford	Scottish National Party	7,615	32.49
Eileen F Patricia McCartin	Liberal Democrats	2,582	11.02
Sheila Galloway Laidlaw	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,643	7.01
John A Deighan	Pro-Life Alliance	578	2.47
Frances Curran	SSA	306	1.31
Charles W McLauchlan	Independent Labour	155	0.66
Christopher Herriot	Socialist Labour	153	0.65
Kenneth R Blair	Natural Law Party	57	0.24
Majority		2,731	11.65

7 June 2001		30,536/53,351	57.24
Douglas Garven Alexander	Labour Party	17,830	58.39
Brian Lawson	Scottish National Party	5,920	19.39
Brian O'Malley	Liberal Democrats	3,178	10.41
Andrew James Cossar	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,301	7.54
Frances Curran	Scottish Socialist	835	2.73
Patricia Margaret Graham	Pro-Life Alliance	346	1.13
Terence Kelly O'Donnell	Independent	126	0.41
Majority		11,910	39.00