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Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
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|
gain
from Conservative
|
|
Ian Lang
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
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|
12,825 (30.5%)
|
|
6,861 (16.3%)
|
|
2,700 ( 6.4%)
|
|
18,449 (43.9%)
|
|
1,183 ( 2.8%)
|
|
|
|
52,751
|
|
42,018 (79.7%)
|
|
Ian Lang
|
|
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
|
|
2,400 ( 5.5%)
|
|
18,173 (42.0%)
|
|
5,609 (13.0%)
|
|
3,721 ( 8.6%)
|
|
15,773 (36.4%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
53,482
|
|
43,276 (80.9%)
|
|
|
-11.5%
|
|
+3.4%
|
|
-2.2%
|
|
+7.5%
|
|
+2.8%
|
|
-1.4%
|
|
-1.3%
|
|
|
|
|
Galloway is the far south-west corner of Scotland, the old counties of Kirkcudbright and Wigtown. Although it is in the Lowlands, Galloway has its mountains and lochs, glens and forests, and remains a quiet and accessible miniature version of the Highlands themselves. Its politics also resemble much of rural Scotland much further north: safely Conservatives for many years until 1974, then falling to the SNP. Galloway fell in the second (October) Nationalist revolution of that year, and it returned to the Tory fold along with most of the others in 1979.
However it must be regarded as very vulnerable to an SNP revival, especially if the Conservatives lose the general election, as they did in 1974. The MP at risk is a senior Cabinet Minister, Ian Lang, the President of the Board of Trade.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,712
|
5.26
|
9.03
|
58
|
|
|
2,458
|
7.55
|
11.17
|
68
|
|
|
1,788
|
5.49
|
11.25
|
49
|
|
|
1,539
|
4.73
|
14.70
|
32
|
|
|
618
|
1.90
|
10.45
|
18
|
|
|
7,908
|
24.28
|
2.81
|
863
|
|
|
1,166
|
3.58
|
8.01
|
45
|
|
|
8,671
|
26.63
|
15.25
|
175
|
|
|
3,899
|
11.97
|
7.13
|
168
|
|
|
2,807
|
8.62
|
10.17
|
85
|
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