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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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28 February 1974		45,859/57,934	79.16
William Winter Hamilton	Labour Party	24,418	53.25
David Veitch Livingstone	Scottish National Party	10,324	22.51
Stephen Ronald Eyres	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,098	19.84
Alexander Maxwell	Communist Party	2,019	4.40
Majority		14,094	30.73

10 October 1974		43,162/58,403	73.90
William Winter Hamilton	Labour Party	22,400	51.90
David Veitch Livingstone	Scottish National Party	14,414	33.40
Peter Derek Clarke	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,308	12.30
Alexander Maxwell	Communist Party	1,040	2.41
Majority		7,986	18.50

3 May 1979		47,596/61,476	77.42
William Winter Hamilton	Labour Party	27,619	58.03
Iain Allistair McCrone	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,597	20.16
James Lynch	Scottish National Party	9,208	19.35
Alexander Maxwell	Communist Party	1,172	2.46
Majority		18,022	37.86

Major Boundary Change
9 June 1983		39,421/55,086	71.56
William Winter Hamilton	Labour Party	17,008	43.14
Teresa Martin Little	Liberal Party in Alliance	9,214	23.37
Douglas Calder Mason	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,863	22.48
James Hand Taggart	Scottish National Party	4,039	10.25
David Alisdair Allison	Ecology Party	297	0.75
Majority		7,794	19.77

11 June 1987		42,728/56,666	75.40
Henry Baird McLeish	Labour Party	22,827	53.42
Richard Erskine Aird	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,118	16.66
Teresa Martin Little	Liberal Party in Alliance	6,487	15.18
Daniel Hood	Scottish National Party	6,296	14.74
Majority		15,709	36.77

9 April 1992		41,739/56,152	74.33
Henry Baird McLeish	Labour Party	21,036	50.40
Patricia A Marwick	Scottish National Party	10,458	25.06
Carol Ellen Cender	Conservative & Unionist Party	7,353	17.62
Craig Thomas Alexander Harrow	Liberal Democrats	2,892	6.93
Majority		10,578	25.34

1 May 1997
Henry Baird McLeish	Labour Party	23,912	58.66
Patricia A Marwick	Scottish National Party	10,199	25.02
Hon Jacob William Rees-Mogg	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,669	9.00
Ross Laird	Liberal Democrats	2,610	6.40
John Frederick Scrymgeour-Wedderburn	Referendum Party	375	0.92
Majority		13,713	33.64

21 October 2000 Election of Henry McLeish as leader of the Scottish Labour Party, and subsequent appointment as First Minister of Scotland.

7 June 2001		32,512/59,597	54.55
John William MacDougall	Labour Party	18,310	56.32
David John Hogg Alexander	Scottish National Party	8,235	25.33
Janet Elizabeth Riches	Liberal Democrats	2,775	8.54
Jeremy Ross Balfour	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,351	7.23
Morag Anne Balfour	Scottish Socialist	841	2.59
Majority		10,075	30.99