Election 97

Clydesdale

Current MP Jimmy Hood
Conservative 97 7,396
Labour 97 23,859
LibDem 97 3,796
Nationalist 97 10,050
Other 97 311
Elected party
Clydesdale

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Clydesdale
Conservative 92 11,231
Labour 92 21,418
LibDem 92 3,957
Nationalist 92 11,084
Other 92 342
Elected party Labour

Clydesdale, to the south of Central Scotland's main industrial belt, is a large and quite rural constituency. There are more industrial and former coal-mining communities in the north, but to the south, towns like Lanark and Biggar have more of the feel of the comfortable market towns. Labour's apparent hold on the seat is largely attributable to the opposition vote being fairly evenly split between the Conservatives and the Scottish Nationalists. If the Tory vote were theoretically to collapse in the direction of the SNP, or, less likely, vice versa, then the Labour Party could lose, but other things being equal, Labour's Jimmy Hood should be safe.


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