Election Results
| General Election 2001: Edinburgh Pentlands | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Lynda Clark | 15,797 | 40.6 | -2.4 | |
| Conservative | Malcolm Rifkind | 14,055 | 36.1 | +3.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | David John Walker | 4,210 | 10.8 | +0.8 | |
| SNP | Stewart Gibb | 4,210 | 10.8 | -2.2 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Jimmy Mearns | 555 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Bill McMurdo | 105 | 0.3 | +0.1 | |
| Majority | 1,742 | 4.5 | |||
| Turnout | 38,932 | 64.4 | -12.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -3.1 | |||
| General Election 1997: Edinburgh Pentlands | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Lynda Clark | 19,675 | 43.0 | 11.9 | |
| Conservative | Malcolm Rifkind | 14,813 | 32.4 | -8.3 | |
| SNP | Stewart Gibb | 6,882 | 13.0 | -2.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jenny Dawe | 4,575 | 10.0 | -2.6 | |
| Referendum Party | Malcolm McDonald | 422 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Green | Robin Harper | 224 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Alistair McConnachie | 81 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,862 | 10.6 | |||
| Turnout | 45,742 | 76.7 | |||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.1 | |||
| General Election 1992: Edinburgh Pentlands | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Malcolm Rifkind | 18,128 | 40.7 | ||
| Labour | Mark Lazarowicz | 13,838 | 31.1 | ||
| SNP | Ms K. Caskie | 6,882 | 15.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | K. Smith | 5,597 | 12.6 | ||
| Natural Law | D. Rae | 111 | 0.2 | ||
| Majority | 4,290 | 9.6 | |||
| Turnout | 44,556 | 80.18 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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