Election Profile:
Candidates:
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Labour Party:
Bill Tynan |
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Conservative Party:
Neil Richardson |
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Liberal Democratic Party:
John Oswald |
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Scottish Nationalist Party:
John Wilson |
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Scottish Socialist Party:
Gena Mitchell |
Incumbent: |
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Bill Tynan |
97 Result: |
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George Robertson
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Robert Kilgour
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Richard Pitts
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Ian Black
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92 Result: (Redistributed) |
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Demographic Profile:
Employment: |
| Unemployed | 14.4% |
Household SEG: |
| I - Professional | 3.2% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 23.0% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 25.6% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 24.3% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 16.2% |
| V - Unskilled | 7.1% |
Misc: |
| Own Residence | 45.4% |
| Rent Residence | 54.6% |
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Submissions
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02/05/01 |
JR |
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| Labour had the political equivalent of a near-death experience in the September 1999 byelection caused by the resignation of George Robertson to become Secretary General of NATO. SNP candidate Annabelle Ewing (daughter of Winnie Ewing, who won this seat in a 1967 byelection) managed a 23% swing and came within 500 votes of Labour's Bill Tynan. An interesting piece of trivia was that the LibDem candidate came sixth behind a single-issue candidate whose platform was to sack the coach of the local Hamilton Academical football team! Labour's setback was probably just a result of mid term blues and voter grumpiness at an unnecessary byelection. The only race here next time will be the race to be first seat in Britain to declare a result. If my memory serves me right, Hamilton South was the second seat in the UK to declare in 1997, and the first in the 1999 Scottish elections. |
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05/05/01 |
DJ Freeland |
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| Hamilton South was the first seat in Scotland to declare in both 1997 and 1999. It will have to be quick to beat the Sunderland seats, though! |
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