Election 97

Cunninghame North

Current MP Brian Wilson
Conservative 97 9,647
Labour 97 20,686
LibDem 97 2,271
Nationalist 97 7,584
Other 97 501
Elected party
Cunninghame North

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Cunninghame North
Conservative 92 14,625
Labour 92 17,564
LibDem 92 2,864
Nationalist 92 7,813
Other 92 0
Elected party Labour

Cunninghame North is a large rural/industrial seat in Scotland's Ayrshire. The seat contains the Isle of Arran and the resort town of Largs, and also more working-class towns and some former coalmining communities. For a Scottish constituency this produces a quite mixed social profile, with election results to match. Labour's Brian Wilson holds the seat, but with a very modest 41 per cent of the vote. The Conservatives come a fairly close second and there is also a significant SNP vote. Labour will hope to be safe in 1997, but this is not one of those solidly Labour seats that the party can always count on.


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