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 | ||||
Read more about this topic: East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes containing the words election and/or results:
“The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, “Where is the best place to go to?” He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages—heaven for climate, and hell for society.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)