UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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1 May 1997		39,955/55,639	71.81
Charles Peter Kennedy	Liberal Democrats	15,472	38.72
Donald Munro	Labour Party	11,453	28.66
Margaret Elizabeth Paterson	Scottish National Party	7,821	19.57
Mary Beaton Macleod	Conservative & Unionist Party	4,368	10.93
Arthur Leslie Durance	Referendum Party	535	1.34
Alan Hopkins	Green Party	306	0.77
Majority		4,019	10.06

9 August 1999 Charles Kennedy elected leader of the Liberal Democrats.

7 June 2001		34,812/56,522	61.59
Rt Hon Charles Peter Kennedy	Liberal Democrats	18,832	54.10
Donald Finlayson Crichton	Labour Party	5,880	16.89
Jean Urquhart	Scottish National Party	4,901	14.08
Angus Wallace Laing	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,096	8.89
Dr Eleanor Roberta Scott	Green Party	699	2.01
Stuart Leslie Topp	Scottish Socialist	683	1.96
Philip Andrew Anderson	UK Independence Party	456	1.31
James Crawford	Country	265	0.76
Majority		12,952	37.21