Election 97

Renfrewshire West

Current MP Tommy Graham
Conservative 97 7,387
Labour 97 18,525
LibDem 97 3,045
Nationalist 97 10,546
Other 97 0
Elected party
Renfrewshire West

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Renfrew West and Inverclyde
Conservative 92 11,128
Labour 92 17,174
LibDem 92 3,375
Nationalist 92 8,258
Other 92 129
Elected party Labour

Labour held this socially mixed Scottish seat in 1992, but only just. Much of the seat is middle-class and well-heeled, the sort of people who would vote Conservative in England, and even though this is Scotland, many of them did. This time around, though, the Boundary Commission has come to Labour's aid - their slender 1,744 majority will be boosted by the addition of the working-class shipbuilding town of Port Glasgow to the seat, while moving the Tory areas around Inverclyde to adjoining Greenock. The result is that Renfrewshire West is now a safe Labour seat (and Greenock can easily absorb the Inverclyde wards and remain safe for Labour too). Labour's Tommy Graham has every reason to applaud the boundary commissioners.


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