Election 97

Edinburgh North and Leith

Current MP Malcolm Chisholm
Conservative 97 7,312
Labour 97 19,209
LibDem 97 5,335
Nationalist 97 8,231
Other 97 417
Elected party
Edinburgh North and Leith

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Edinburgh Leith
Conservative 92 10,685
Labour 92 15,019
LibDem 92 5,038
Nationalist 92 8,749
Other 92 3,529
Elected party Labour

Running north from the comfortable Georgian terraces of Edinburgh's 'New Town' to the gritty port of Leith, Edinburgh North and Leith has a mixed social profile, the balance of which should favour Labour quite strongly. On different boundaries, Labour won hereabouts in 1992 with little over a third of the vote, after the SNP made a strong advance to second place, while Labour was hampered then by a former MP standing as Independent Labour. On balance the new seat should return to being more safely Labour in 1997, but the constituency has the potential to reflect any changing political landscape in Scotland engineered by the SNP.


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