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Data Last Updated: 11 January 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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26 May 1955		30,886/41,326	74.74
William Reid	Labour Party	15,533	50.29
Sir Charles Stuart McFarlane	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,353	49.71
Majority		180	0.58

8 October 1959		38,849/49,284	78.83
William Reid	Labour Party	21,608	55.62
Robert Deans Kernohan	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,241	44.38
Majority		4,367	11.24

15 October 1964		45,413/60,027	75.65
Hugh Dunbar Brown	Labour Party	29,889	65.82
Kenneth Bruce Miller	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,524	34.18
Majority		14,365	31.63

31 March 1966		42,175/59,575	70.79
Hugh Dunbar Brown	Labour Party	28,201	66.87
David Iain Fraser	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,986	30.79
John Jackson	Communist Party	988	2.34
Majority		15,215	36.08

18 June 1970		42,527/64,852	65.58
Hugh Dunbar Brown	Labour Party	25,864	60.82
Donald David MacLeod Masterton	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,881	27.94
William McRae	Scottish National Party	4,181	9.83
John Jackson	Communist Party	601	1.41
Majority		13,983	32.88

Major Boundary Change
28 February 1974		37,594/54,480	69.01
Hugh Dunbar Brown	Labour Party	23,154	61.59
Ronald Golder Edwards	Scottish National Party	7,367	19.60
Peter Gerald Malone	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,324	16.82
John Jackson	Communist Party	749	1.99
Majority		15,787	41.99

10 October 1974		35,181/54,975	63.99
Hugh Dunbar Brown	Labour Party	20,602	58.56
Ronald Golder Edwards	Scottish National Party	10,628	30.21
George Ross McKay	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,448	9.80
John Jackson	Communist Party	503	1.43
Majority		9,974	28.35

3 May 1979		34,659/52,482	66.04
Hugh Dunbar Brown	Labour Party	24,083	69.49
Stanley Michael Langdon	Conservative & Unionist Party	5,239	15.12
Robert Cunning	Scottish National Party	4,767	13.75
John Jackson	Communist Party	377	1.09
Mark Campbell	Workers Revolutionary Party	193	0.56
Majority		18,844	54.37

9 June 1983		31,100/48,548	64.06
Hugh Dunbar Brown	Labour Party	20,040	64.44
Allan Drysdale Heron	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	4,655	14.97
Sheenagh Joy Gordon	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,374	10.85
Pat Kennedy	Scottish National Party	2,737	8.80
John Jackson	Communist Party	294	0.95
Majority		15,385	49.47

11 June 1987		30,217/44,394	68.07
James Wray	Labour Party	22,032	72.91
William Ramsay	Scottish National Party	3,660	12.11
Anne Caroline Strutt	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,336	7.73
John Morrison	Social Democratic Party in Alliance	2,189	7.24
Majority		18,372	60.80

9 April 1992		23,880/36,560	65.32
James Wray	Labour Party	15,885	66.52
Sandra MacRae	Scottish National Party	5,182	21.70
Andrew Richard Rosindell	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,865	7.81
Charles Edward Bell	Liberal Democrats	948	3.97
Majority		10,703	44.82