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Data Last Updated: 16 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		39,290/52,449	74.91
Ian Bruce Lang	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,579	44.74
George Henry Thompson	Scottish National Party	12,118	30.84
Gerald Douglas	Liberal Party in Alliance	5,129	13.05
Malcolm Barry Miller	Labour Party	4,464	11.36
Majority		5,461	13.90

11 June 1987		41,040/53,994	76.01
Ian Bruce Lang	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,592	40.43
Stephen Frederick Norris	Scottish National Party	12,919	31.48
John Ewen McKerchar	Liberal Party in Alliance	6,001	14.62
James William Gray	Labour Party	5,298	12.91
Dan Kenny	Retired	230	0.56
Majority		3,673	8.95

9 April 1992		44,486/54,474	81.66
Rt Hon Ian Bruce Lang	Conservative & Unionist Party	18,681	41.99
Matthew Brown	Scottish National Party	16,213	36.45
John Dowson	Labour Party	5,766	12.96
John Ewen McKerchar	Liberal Democrats	3,826	8.60
Majority		2,468	5.55

1 May 1997		42,018/52,751	79.65
Alasdair Neil Morgan	Scottish National Party	18,449	43.91
Rt Hon Ian Bruce Lang	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,825	30.52
Kathryn Sloan Clark	Labour Party	6,861	16.33
John Ewen McKerchar	Liberal Democrats	2,700	6.43
Rognvald Sinclair Wood	Independent	566	1.35
Alan Gordon Kennedy	Referendum Party	428	1.02
Joseph William Smith	UK Independence Party	189	0.45
Majority		5,624	13.38

7 June 2001		35,914/52,756	68.08
Peter John Duncan	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,222	34.03
Malcolm Gilchrist Fleming	Scottish National Party	12,148	33.83
Thomas Kelly Sloan	Labour Party	7,258	20.21
Neil Caven Wallace	Liberal Democrats	3,698	10.30
Andrew Harvey	Scottish Socialist	588	1.64
Majority		74	0.21