Election Results
| Election | Political result | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | ±% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Election 2010 Turnout: 51,181 (77.3%) +5.1 |
Labour hold Majority: 10,420 (20.4%) +6.4 Swing: +3.2% from Con to Lab |
Jim Murphy | Labour | 25,987 | 50.8 | +6.9 | ||
| Richard Cook | Conservative | 15,567 | 30.4 | +0.5 | ||||
| Gordon MacDonald | Liberal Democrat | 4,720 | 9.2 | -9.0 | ||||
| Gordon Archer | SNP | 4,535 | 8.9 | +2.0 | ||||
| Donald McKay | UKIP | 372 | 0.7 | N/A | ||||
| General Election 2005 Turnout: 47,405 (72.1%) +1.4 |
Labour hold Majority: 6,657 (14.0%) -4.9 Swing: -2.4% from Lab to Con |
Jim Murphy | Labour | 20,815 | 43.9 | -3.7 | ||
| Richard Cook | Conservative | 14,158 | 29.9 | +1.1 | ||||
| Gordon MacDonald | Liberal Democrat | 8,659 | 18.3 | +5.4 | ||||
| Osama Bhutta | SNP | 3,245 | 6.8 | -1.7 | ||||
| Ian Henderson | Scottish Socialist | 528 | 1.1 | -0.6 | ||||
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