Election Results
| General Election 2010: Ochil and South Perthshire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gordon Banks | 19,131 | 37.9 | +6.5 | |
| SNP | Annabelle Ewing | 13,944 | 27.6 | -2.3 | |
| Conservative | Gerald Michaluk | 10,342 | 20.5 | -1.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Graeme Littlejohn | 5,754 | 11.4 | -1.9 | |
| UKIP | David Bushby | 689 | 1.4 | +0.8 | |
| Scottish Green | Hilary Charles | 609 | 1.2 | -0.9 | |
| Majority | 5,187 | 10.3 | |||
| Turnout | 50,469 | 67.2 | +1.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +4.4 | |||
| General Election 2005: Ochil and South Perthshire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gordon Banks | 14,645 | 31.4 | −2.0 | |
| SNP | Annabelle Ewing | 13,957 | 29.9 | −1.7 | |
| Conservative | Elizabeth Smith | 10,021 | 21.5 | −0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Catherine Whittingham | 6,218 | 13.3 | +2.8 | |
| Scottish Green | George Baxter | 978 | 2.1 | N/A | |
| Scottish Socialist | Iain Campbell | 420 | 0.9 | −0.9 | |
| UKIP | David Bushby | 275 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Free Scotland | Maitland Kelly | 183 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 688 | 1.5 | |||
| Turnout | 46,697 | 66.0 | +3.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −0.2 | |||
Read more about this topic: Ochil And South Perthshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
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