Election 97

Glasgow Rutherglen

Current MP Tommy McAvoy
Conservative 97 3,288
Labour 97 20,430
LibDem 97 5,167
Nationalist 97 5,423
Other 97 1,213
Elected party
Glasgow Rutherglen

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Glasgow Rutherglen
Conservative 92 7,443
Labour 92 20,742
LibDem 92 4,529
Nationalist 92 6,052
Other 92 92
Elected party Labour

Glasgow's south-eastern constituency of Rutherglen is based on an area that constituted a discrete burgh until the 1970s. A certain resentful assertion of local independence, following the area's incorporation into Glasgow, could well account for the subsequent rise of a Liberal challenge here in the 1980s. This has since subsided, and an opposition split between three parties will see Labour clear in a seat, which they probably consider rightfully theirs.


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