|
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|
Gordon
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|
gain
from Conservative
|
|
Malcolm Bruce
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
11,002 (26.0%)
|
|
4,350 (10.3%)
|
|
17,999 (42.6%)
|
|
8,435 (20.0%)
|
|
459 ( 1.1%)
|
|
|
|
58,767
|
|
42,245 (71.9%)
|
|
Malcolm Bruce
|
|
Gordon
|
|
8,486 (20.8%)
|
|
19,596 (48.0%)
|
|
2,561 ( 6.3%)
|
|
11,110 (27.2%)
|
|
7,593 (18.6%)
|
|
0 ( 0.0%)
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
56,716
|
|
40,860 (72.0%)
|
|
|
-21.9%
|
|
+4.0%
|
|
+15.4%
|
|
+1.4%
|
|
+1.1%
|
|
+3.6%
|
|
-0.2%
|
|
|
|
|
The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1992 was Malcolm Bruce, the member for Gordon in the north east of the country, inland from Aberdeen. However, his career has become somewhat shaky of late.
In 1992, his majority over the Conservatives was reduced from over 9,500 to just 274. No seat in Scotland had grown as fast between 1981 and 1991, mainly due to oil-related development in the Aberdeen suburbs, and this has in turn led to a major redrawing of the boundaries for the next election. This could hardly have gone worse for Bruce, as the notional figures suggest not just that the Conservatives would have won Gordon on the new boundaries had they been in place in 1992, but that their majority would have been as much as 8,500 - their second highest in Scotland!
These figures are of course hypothetical, and Bruce might have less of a mountain to climb against an apparently ailing Tory party than is suggested; but he will still have to work hard to hold, or rather 'regain', his seat.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,285
|
8.00
|
9.03
|
89
|
|
|
810
|
2.84
|
11.17
|
25
|
|
|
3,591
|
12.58
|
11.25
|
112
|
|
|
6,751
|
23.64
|
14.70
|
161
|
|
|
236
|
0.83
|
10.45
|
8
|
|
|
7,111
|
24.90
|
2.81
|
885
|
|
|
1,494
|
5.23
|
8.01
|
65
|
|
|
4,219
|
14.77
|
15.25
|
97
|
|
|
1,339
|
4.69
|
7.13
|
66
|
|
|
719
|
2.52
|
10.17
|
25
|
|
|
