UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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6 May 1999
Margaret Joy Smith	Liberal Democrats	15,161	36.47
Lord James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton	Conservative & Unionist Party	10,570	25.42
Carole Fox	Labour Party	8,860	21.31
Graham Donald Sutherland	Scottish National Party	6,984	16.80
Majority		4,591	11.04

1 May 2003		33,301/60,113	55.40
Margaret Joy Smith	Liberal Democrats	14,434	43.34
Lord James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,520	25.58
Carol Anne Fox	Labour Party	5,046	15.15
Alyn Edward Smith	Scottish National Party	4,133	12.41
Patricia Joan Smith	Scottish Socialist	993	2.98
Bruce David Skivington	Scottish Peoples Alliance	175	0.53
Majority		5,914	17.76

3 May 2007		34,752/59,814	58.10
Margaret Joy Smith	Liberal Democrats	13,677	39.36
Sheena Margaret Cleland	Scottish National Party	7,791	22.42
Gordon John Lindhurst	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,361	21.18
Richard Simon Meade	Labour Party	5,343	15.37
John Gibb Wilson	Independent	580	1.67
Majority		5,886	16.94