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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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1 May 1997		41,181/57,673	71.40
Helen Lawrie Liddell	Labour Party	25,460	61.82
Keith Robert Adam Robertson	Scottish National Party	10,048	24.40
Dr Nicholas Harvey Brook	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,660	8.89
Richard Garnet Wolseley	Liberal Democrats	1,719	4.17
Crawford Semple	Referendum Party	294	0.71
Majority		15,412	37.43

7 June 2001		31,736/58,349	54.39
Rt Hon Helen Lawrie Liddell	Labour Party	18,478	58.22
Alison Jean Lindsay	Scottish National Party	6,138	19.34
John Whyte Love	Liberal Democrats	2,376	7.49
Gordon McIntosh	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,960	6.18
Mary Dempsey	Scottish Unionist	1,439	4.53
Kenneth McGuigan	Scottish Socialist	1,171	3.69
Christopher Herriot	Socialist Labour	174	0.55
Majority		12,340	38.88

Major Boundary Change
5 May 2005		33,158/61,995	53.48
Rt Hon Dr John Reid	Labour Party	19,568	59.01
Malcolm Turner Balfour	Scottish National Party	5,484	16.54
Helen Dorothy Watt	Liberal Democrats	3,792	11.44
Stuart Cottis	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,271	9.86
Fraser David Coats	Scottish Socialist	706	2.13
Joseph Rowan	Independent	337	1.02
Majority		14,084	42.48

Joseph Rowan sought election as a Scottish Independent candidate.

6 May 2010		35,849/62,364	57.48
Pamela Ann Catherine Nash	Labour Party	20,849	58.16
Sophia Coyle	Scottish National Party	8,441	23.55
Ruth Whitfield	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,133	8.74
John Whyte Love	Liberal Democrats	2,898	8.08
John McGeechan	Independent	528	1.47
Majority		12,408	34.61

7 May 2015		44,286/66,792	66.30
Neil Charles Gray	Scottish National Party	23,887	53.94
Pamela Ann Catherine Nash	Labour Party	15,108	34.11
Eric Holford	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,389	7.65
Matthew Williams	UK Independence Party	1,088	2.46
John Whyte Love	Liberal Democrats	678	1.53
Deryck Beaumont	Independent	136	0.31
Majority		8,779	19.82

8 June 2017		37,002/64,146	57.68
Neil Charles Gray	Scottish National Party	14,291	38.62
Helen Margaret McFarlane	Labour Party	13,096	35.39
Jennifer Mary Donnellan	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,813	23.82
Ewan Alexander McRobert	Liberal Democrats	802	2.17
Majority		1,195	3.23

12 December 2019		39,772/64,008	62.14
Neil Charles Gray	Scottish National Party	17,929	45.08
Helen Margaret McFarlane	Labour Party	12,728	32.00
Lorraine Nolan	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,011	17.63
William Peter Maurice Crossman	Liberal Democrats	1,419	3.57
Rosemary McGowan	Green Party	685	1.72
Majority		5,201	13.08

24 March 2021 Resignation of Neil Gray. (Northstead)

13 May 2021		21,827/63,705	34.26
Anum Qaisar-Javid	Scottish National Party	10,129	46.41
Kenneth Stevenson	Labour Party	8,372	38.36
Ben Ron Callaghan	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,812	12.88
Stephen Philip Arrundale	Liberal Democrats	220	1.01
Neil Peter Manson	Social Democratic Party	151	0.69
Jonathan Marc Stanley	Scottish Unionist	59	0.27
Martyn William Greene	Reform UK	45	0.21
Donald Murdo Mackay	UK Independence Party	39	0.18
Majority		1,757	8.05

Minor Boundary Change
4 July 2024		36,666/70,199	52.23
Kenneth Stevenson	Labour Party	18,871	51.47
Anum Qaisar-Javid	Scottish National Party	11,324	30.88
David Hall	Reform UK	2,971	8.10
Alexandra Herdman	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,696	4.63
Lewis Younie	Liberal Democrats	725	1.98
Josh Robertson	Alba	623	1.70
John Johnston Leckie	British U	456	1.24
Majority		7,547	20.58