Election Results
| General Election 2001: Paisley South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Douglas Alexander | 17,830 | 58.4 | +0.9 | |
| SNP | Brian Lawson | 5,920 | 19.4 | -4.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Brian O’Malley | 3,178 | 10.4 | +1.0 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Cossar | 2,301 | 7.5 | -1.1 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Frances Curran | 835 | 2.7 | N/A | |
| ProLife Alliance | Patricia Graham | 346 | 1.1 | N/A | |
| Independent | Terence O'Donnell | 126 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,910 | 39.0 | |||
| Turnout | 30,536 | 57.2 | -11.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Paisley South by-election, 1997 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Douglas Alexander | 10,346 | 44.1 | -13.4 | |
| SNP | Ian Blackford | 7,615 | 32.5 | +9.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Eileen McCartin | 2,582 | 11.0 | +1.6 | |
| Conservative | Sheila Laidlaw | 1,643 | 7.0 | -1.7 | |
| ProLife Alliance | John Deighan | 578 | 2.5 | N/A | |
| Scottish Socialist | Frances Curran | 306 | 1.3 | +0.9 | |
| Independent | C. McLauchlan | 155 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Socialist Labour | C. Herriot | 153 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Kenneth Blair | 57 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,731 | ||||
| Turnout | 42.9 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | -11.3 | |||
| General Election 1997: Paisley South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gordon McMaster | 21,482 | 57.5 | ||
| SNP | William Martin | 8,732 | 23.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Eileen McCartin | 3,500 | 9.4 | ||
| Conservative | Robin Reid | 3,237 | 8.6 | ||
| Referendum Party | James Lardner | 254 | 0.7 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | Sean Clerkin | 146 | 0.4 | ||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Paisley South by-election, 1990 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gordon McMaster | 12,485 | 46.1 | -10.0 | |
| SNP | Iain Lawson | 7,455 | 27.5 | +13.5 | |
| Conservative | J Workman | 3,627 | 13.4 | -1.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Alan Reid | 2,660 | 9.8 | 5.3 | |
| Green | L Collie | 835 | 3.1 | ||
| Majority | 5,030 | 18.6 | |||
| Turnout | 27,062 | 55.0 | -20.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -11.8 | |||
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