Elections
| General Election 2010: Dumfries and Galloway | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Russell Brown | 23,950 | 45.9% | +4.8 | |
| Conservative | Peter Duncan | 16,501 | 31.6% | -3.7 | |
| SNP | Andrew Wood | 6,419 | 12.3% | +0.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Richard Brodie | 4,608 | 8.8% | +0.5 | |
| UKIP | Bill Wright | 695 | 1.3% | +1.3 | |
| Majority | 7,449 | 14.3% | |||
| Turnout | 52,173 | 70.0% | +0.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +4.3 | |||
| General Election 2005: Dumfries and Galloway | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Russell Brown | 20,924 | 41.1 | +8.7 | |
| Conservative | Peter Duncan | 18,002 | 35.4 | +3.3 | |
| SNP | Douglas Henderson | 6,182 | 12.1 | -13.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Keith Legg | 4,259 | 8.4 | -0.5 | |
| Green | John Schofield | 745 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
| Scottish Socialist | John Dennis | 497 | 1.0 | -0.6 | |
| Christian Vote | Mark Smith | 282 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
| Majority | 2,922 | 5.7 | |||
| Turnout | 50,891 | 68.5 | +1.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +2.7 | |||
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