Election Results
| Scottish Parliament election, 2011: East Lothian | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Iain Gray | 12,536 | 38.95 | +4.5% | |
| SNP | David Berry | 12,385 | 38.49 | +10.7% | |
| Conservative | Derek Brownlee | 5,344 | 16.60 | -2.6% | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ettie Spencer | 1,912 | 5.94 | -12.6% | |
| Majority | 151 | 0.5% | |||
| Turnout | 32,177 | 56.9% | |||
| Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: East Lothian | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | 10,822 | 34.5 | |||
| SNP | 8,713 | 27.8 | |||
| Conservative | 6,032 | 19.2 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 5,822 | 18.5 | |||
| Majority | 2,109 | 6.7 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Scottish Parliament election, 2007: East Lothian | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Iain Gray | 12,219 | 35.4 | -8.4 | |
| SNP | Andrew Sharp | 9,771 | 28.4 | +11.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Judy Hayman | 6,249 | 18.1 | +1.3 | |
| Conservative | Bill Stevenson | 6,232 | 18.1 | +0.6 | |
| Majority | 2,448 | 7.1 | |||
| Turnout | 34,471 | 56.2 | 3.5 | ||
| Scottish Parliament election, 2003: East Lothian | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | John Home Robertson | 13,683 | 43.85 | −7.29 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Judy Hayman | 5,508 | 17.65 | + 6.62 | |
| Conservative | Stuart Thomson | 5,459 | 17.49 | + 1.68 | |
| SNP | Tom Roberts | 5,174 | 16.58 | −5.44 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Hugh Kerr | 1,380 | 4.42 | + 4.42 | |
| Majority | 8,175 | 26.20 | −2.93 | ||
| Turnout | 31,204, | 52.69 | −11.47 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Scottish Parliament election, 1999: East Lothian | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | John Home Robertson | 19,220 | 51.14 | n/a | |
| SNP | Calum Millar | 8,274 | 22.02 | n/a | |
| Conservative | Christine Richards | 5,941 | 15.81 | n/a | |
| Liberal Democrats | Judy Hayman | 4,147 | 11.03 | n/a | |
| Majority | 10,946 | 29.13 | n/a | ||
| Turnout | n/a | ||||
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