Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
Sir Thomas Dalyell, Bt. |
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Conservative Party:
Gordon Lindhurst |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
Martin Oliver |
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Scottish Nationalist Party:
James Sibbald |
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Scottish Socialist Party:
Edward Cornock |
Incumbent: |
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Tam Dalyell |
97 Result: |
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Tam Dalyell
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Tom Kerr
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Andrew Duncan
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Kenny MacAskill
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Demographic Profile:
Employment: |
| Unemployed | 12.0% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 3.3% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 23.6% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 22.2% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 22.5% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 19.5% |
| V - Unskilled | 8.1% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 43.4% |
| Rent Residence | 56.6% |
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Submissions
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11/05/01 |
JR |
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| Tam Dalyell will hold onto the seat he first won in 1962 (it was called West Lothian then), and now that veterans Ted Heath and Tony Benn (first elected 1950) and John Morris (1959)are stepping down he will become father of the House, and preside over the election of a speaker. Dalyell, the man who first asked the West Lothian question, has run into trouble with his constituency party in the past as he was the only Scottish Labour MP to speak out against self-government in the 1997 referendum. However, he's never had any trouble with the electorate here and I could see him notching up half-a-century's service in due course. |
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