|
|
|
Western Isles
|
|
gain
from Labour
|
|
Calum Macdonald
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
1,071 ( 6.6%)
|
|
8,955 (55.6%)
|
|
495 ( 3.1%)
|
|
5,379 (33.4%)
|
|
206 ( 1.3%)
|
|
|
|
22,983
|
|
16,106 (70.1%)
|
|
Calum Macdonald
|
|
Western Isles
|
|
1,703 (10.6%)
|
|
1,362 ( 8.5%)
|
|
7,664 (47.8%)
|
|
552 ( 3.4%)
|
|
5,961 (37.2%)
|
|
491 ( 3.1%)
|
|
|
Labour
|
|
23,015
|
|
16,030 (69.7%)
|
|
|
-1.8%
|
|
+7.8%
|
|
-0.4%
|
|
-3.8%
|
|
-1.8%
|
|
-0.1%
|
|
+0.4%
|
|
|
|
|
Scotland's far-flung western archipelago is quite different from any other constituency. The only part of the UK that almost universally observes or enforces the Sabbath, it has the smallest electorate of any seat (22,785 at the last election), the highest proportion of detached houses, and is the only seat in Scotland with a majority of Gaelic speakers (68 per cent). Individual loyalties are the key to electoral success in the islands. Labour's Malcolm Macmillan held the seat for held the seat from 1935 to 1970, when it passed to Donald Stewart of the Scottish Nationalists - at the time the only SNP MP. On Stewart's retirement in 1987, Labour's Calum MacDonald took it back and he is probably favourite ths time - although the only thing certain in the Western Isles is that the Tories will not get a look in.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,994
|
15.80
|
9.03
|
175
|
|
|
695
|
5.51
|
11.17
|
49
|
|
|
1,181
|
9.36
|
11.25
|
83
|
|
|
579
|
4.59
|
14.70
|
31
|
|
|
0
|
0.00
|
10.45
|
0
|
|
|
5,319
|
42.14
|
2.81
|
1497
|
|
|
356
|
2.82
|
8.01
|
35
|
|
|
1,430
|
11.33
|
15.25
|
74
|
|
|
683
|
5.41
|
7.13
|
76
|
|
|
386
|
3.06
|
10.17
|
30
|
|
|
