Election 97

Airdrie and Shotts

Current MP Helen Liddell
Conservative 97 3,660
Labour 97 25,460
LibDem 97 1,719
Nationalist 97 10,048
Other 97 0
Elected party
Airdrie and Shotts

Robert Waller wrote
Old constituency Monklands East
Conservative 92 6,588
Labour 92 27,678
LibDem 92 1,997
Nationalist 92 8,023
Other 92 0
Elected party Labour

The newly created seat of Airdrie and Shotts inherits a majority of its electors from the former seat of Monklands East, held by Labour leader John Smith prior to his tragic death in 1994. The new seat, with an industrial Scottish profile, remains essentially Labour, although it has some attributes, such as an SNP surge in the 1994 Monklands East by-election, that could give the Scottish Nationalists a distant hope of mounting a challenge.


Super Profiles

837 2.68 9.03 30
567 1.81 11.17 16
1,187 3.80 11.25 34
4,528 14.49 14.70 99
88 0.28 10.45 3
432 1.38 2.81 49
707 2.26 8.01 28
5,668 18.13 15.25 119
3,637 11.64 7.13 163
13,606 43.53 10.17 428