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Data Last Updated: 3 May 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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5 May 2005		43,926/67,135	65.43
Rt Hon Alistair Maclean Darling	Labour Party	17,476	39.79
Geoffrey Gordon Craufurd Buchan	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,234	23.30
Simon James Clark	Liberal Democrats	9,252	21.06
Nicholas Arthur Elliott-Cannon	Scottish National Party	4,654	10.60
John Andrew Blair-Fish	Green Party	1,520	3.46
Patricia Joan Smith	Scottish Socialist	585	1.33
Cecil William Gordon Boys	UK Independence Party	205	0.47
Majority		7,242	16.49

6 May 2010		45,462/66,344	68.52
Rt Hon Alistair Maclean Darling	Labour Party	19,473	42.83
Jason Geoffrey Rust	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,026	24.25
Timothy Charles McKay	Liberal Democrats	8,194	18.02
Kaukab Stewart	Scottish National Party	5,530	12.16
Clare Cooney	Green Party	872	1.92
Colin Anthony Fox	Scottish Socialist	319	0.70
Caroline Bellamy	Communist League	48	0.11
Majority		8,447	18.58

7 May 2015		51,602/72,149	71.52
Joanna Catherine Cherry	Scottish National Party	22,168	42.96
Ricky Henderson	Labour Party	14,033	27.19
Gordon John Lindhurst	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,444	20.24
Richard Alan Doherty	Green Party	1,965	3.81
Daniel Marisco Farthing-Sykes	Liberal Democrats	1,920	3.72
Richard Crewe Lucas	UK Independence Party	1,072	2.08
Majority		8,135	15.76

8 June 2017		49,390/71,178	69.39
Joanna Catherine Cherry	Scottish National Party	17,575	35.58
Miles Edward Frank Briggs	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,478	33.36
Foysol Hussain Choudhury	Labour Party	13,213	26.75
Aisha Jawaid Mir	Liberal Democrats	2,124	4.30
Majority		1,097	2.22

12 December 2019		52,131/73,501	70.93
Joanna Catherine Cherry	Scottish National Party	24,830	47.63
Callum Arron Laidlaw	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,848	24.65
Sophie Cooke	Labour Party	7,478	14.34
Tom Inglis	Liberal Democrats	4,971	9.54
Ben Parker	Green Party	1,265	2.43
David Craig Ballantine	Brexit Party	625	1.20
Melville Brown	Social Democratic Party	114	0.22
Majority		11,982	22.98

Minor Boundary Change
4 July 2024		45,664/73,784	61.89
Prof Scott Arthur	Labour Party	18,663	40.87
Joanna Catherine Cherry	Scottish National Party	12,446	27.26
Sue Webber	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,558	12.17
Dan Heap	Green Party	3,450	7.56
Bruce Wilson	Liberal Democrats	3,014	6.60
Ian Harper	Reform UK	2,087	4.57
Richard Lucas	Scottish Family	265	0.58
Marc Wilkinson	Independent	181	0.40
Majority		6,217	13.61