UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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6 May 1999
William Gordon Jackson	Labour Party	11,421	43.31
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon	Scottish National Party	9,665	36.65
Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,343	8.88
Mohammed Aslam Khan	Liberal Democrats	1,479	5.61
Charlie McCarthy	Scottish Socialist	1,275	4.83
John Odell Foster	Communist Party	190	0.72
Majority		1,756	6.66

1 May 2003
William Gordon Jackson	Labour Party	7,834	37.06
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon	Scottish National Party	6,599	31.22
Jimmy Scott	Scottish Socialist	2,369	11.21
Faisal Butt	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,878	8.89
Paul Graham	Liberal Democrats	1,807	8.55
Abdul Razaq Dean	Independent	226	1.07
John Odell Foster	Communist Party	215	1.02
Asif Nasir	Scottish Peoples Alliance	208	0.98
Majority		1,235	5.84

3 May 2007		21,521/47,405	45.40
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon	Scottish National Party	9,010	41.87
William Gordon Jackson	Labour Party	8,266	38.41
Christopher Young	Liberal Democrats	1,891	8.79
Martyn Anthony McIntyre	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,680	7.81
Asif Nasir	Independent	423	1.97
Elinor McKenzie	Communist Party	251	1.17
Majority		744	3.46