Election 97

Falkirk East

Current MP Michael Connarty
Conservative 97 5,813
Labour 97 23,344
LibDem 97 2,153
Nationalist 97 9,959
Other 97 0
Elected party
Falkirk East

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Falkirk East
Conservative 92 8,771
Labour 92 19,183
LibDem 92 3,159
Nationalist 92 12,327
Other 92 0
Elected party Labour

Falkirk East, on the upper reaches of the Firth of Forth in central Scotland, contains none of the burgh of Falkirk itself, but has two main centres of population, in Stenhousemuir, to the north of Falkirk, and the oil refinery town of Grangemouth to the east. In common with much of Central Scotland, Labour control this traditionally industrial seat, but with an advancing SNP vote. It would probably take about a 10 per cent swing for the Nationalists to take the seat from Labour, which seems a remote possibility, but the Scots could punish Labour here if they were unhappy with the them in government.


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