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Data Last Updated: 9 April 2024
Application Last Amended: 11 January 2024
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5 May 2005 | 41,796/71,606 | 58.37 | |
Labour Party | 24,278 | 58.09 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,062 | 14.50 | |
Liberal Democrats | 5,450 | 13.04 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,308 | 10.31 | |
Scottish Socialist | 666 | 1.59 | |
UK Independence Party | 516 | 1.23 | |
Scot Senior Citizens | 425 | 1.02 | |
Independent | 47 | 0.11 | |
Independent | 44 | 0.11 | |
Majority | 18,216 | 43.58 | |
17 May 2007 Rt Hon Dr Gordon Brown was confirmed as the Leader of the Labour Party after no other candidate had reached the minimum number of nominations required to force an election. | |||
27 June 2007 Rt Hon Dr Gordon Brown appointed Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. | |||
6 May 2010 | 45,802/75,215 | 60.89 | |
Labour Party | 29,559 | 64.54 | |
Scottish National Party | 6,550 | 14.30 | |
Liberal Democrats | 4,269 | 9.32 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 4,258 | 9.30 | |
UK Independence Party | 760 | 1.66 | |
Independent | 184 | 0.40 | |
Independent | 165 | 0.36 | |
Independent | 57 | 0.12 | |
Majority | 23,009 | 50.24 | |
10 May 2010 Rt Hon Dr Gordon Brown resigns as leader of the Labour Party. | |||
11 May 2010 Rt Hon Dr Gordon Brown resigns as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. | |||
7 May 2015 | 52,892/75,941 | 69.65 | |
Scottish National Party | 27,628 | 52.23 | |
Labour Party | 17,654 | 33.38 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 5,223 | 9.87 | |
UK Independence Party | 1,237 | 2.34 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1,150 | 2.17 | |
Majority | 9,974 | 18.86 | |
8 June 2017 | 46,193/72,721 | 63.52 | |
Labour Party | 17,016 | 36.84 | |
Scottish National Party | 16,757 | 36.28 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 10,762 | 23.30 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1,118 | 2.42 | |
UK Independence Party | 540 | 1.17 | |
Majority | 259 | 0.56 | |
12 December 2019 | 47,005/72,853 | 64.52 | |
Scottish National Party | 16,568 | 35.25 | |
Labour Party | 15,325 | 32.60 | |
Conservative & Unionist Party | 9,449 | 20.10 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2,903 | 6.18 | |
Green Party | 1,628 | 3.46 | |
Brexit Party | 1,132 | 2.41 | |
Majority | 1,243 | 2.64 | |
Neale Hanvey had been suspended from the SNP since November 2019, so sat as an Independent MP when he was elected. | |||
27 May 2020 Neale Hanvey was readmitted into the SNP. | |||
28 March 2021 Neale Hanvey resigns from the SNP and joins Alba. | |||