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class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Western_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh Western (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh Western (Scottish Parliament constituency)</a> or <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_West_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh West (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh West (Scottish Parliament constituency)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and 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class="category">for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-overlays="["_f44dfc50e3fe4ffba398b35b0f684a16736df8ca"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,250x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Edinburgh_West_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1249297574&groups=_f44dfc50e3fe4ffba398b35b0f684a16736df8ca" width="250" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,250x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Edinburgh_West_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1249297574&groups=_f44dfc50e3fe4ffba398b35b0f684a16736df8ca 2x" alt="Map" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Interactive map of boundaries from 2024</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:EdinburghWest2024Constituency.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/EdinburghWest2024Constituency.svg/210px-EdinburghWest2024Constituency.svg.png" decoding="async" width="210" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/EdinburghWest2024Constituency.svg/315px-EdinburghWest2024Constituency.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/EdinburghWest2024Constituency.svg/420px-EdinburghWest2024Constituency.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="747" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Location within Scotland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Subdivisions of Scotland</a></th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/City_of_Edinburgh_(council_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Edinburgh (council area)">City of Edinburgh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Major settlements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> (part) and <a href="/wiki/South_Queensferry" title="South Queensferry">South Queensferry</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;">Current constituency</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christine_Jardine" title="Christine Jardine">Christine Jardine</a> (<a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Edinburgh West</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Burgh_constituency" title="Burgh constituency">burgh constituency</a> of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a>, first contested at the <a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885 general election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a>, the boundaries were the same as the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_West_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh West (Scottish Parliament constituency)">eponymous constituency</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a>, which had been created in 1999. </p><p>This commuter belt seat, distinctively in the city, was <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a>/<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a> for over 65 years, from the <a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931 general election</a> until the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>, although the Liberal/SDP Alliance and later the Liberal Democrats repeatedly came close to winning in the 1980s and early 1990s. After 1997, the seat was held by the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> until the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) between the 2015 and 2017 general elections was <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Thomson" title="Michelle Thomson">Michelle Thomson</a>, who was elected for the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> (SNP) in May 2015. In September 2015, she resigned the party whip and sat as an <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a>. Thomson chose not to seek reelection either for the SNP or as an Independent candidate.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christine_Jardine" title="Christine Jardine">Christine Jardine</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> gained the seat with a majority of 2,988 votes. </p><p>The seat has been relative to others a marginal seat since 2005, as the winner's majority has not exceeded 8.2% of the vote since the 30% majority won in that year. The seat has changed hands twice electorally since that year and once through resigning the party whip. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Constituency_profile">Constituency profile</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Constituency profile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This is an affluent, left-leaning and pro-European seat<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> covering the northwestern portion of Edinburgh. It is mostly suburban, but takes in rural areas within the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Edinburgh_(council_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Edinburgh (council area)">council area</a> including Kirkliston and South Queensferry. <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Airport" title="Edinburgh Airport">Edinburgh Airport</a> and <a href="/wiki/Murrayfield_Stadium" title="Murrayfield Stadium">Murrayfield Stadium</a> are within the seat. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The seat was created when the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh</a> constituency was abolished, in 1885, replaced by four seats: <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_East" class="mw-redirect" title="Edinburgh East">Edinburgh East</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South</a> and Edinburgh West. The Central constituency was abolished in 2005. The East constituency was abolished in 1997, but a new Edinburgh East was created in 2005. The South and West constituencies have been in continuous use (with alterations to boundaries) since 1885. </p><p>Before the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a>, the seat was one of six covering the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Edinburgh_council_area" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Edinburgh council area">City of Edinburgh council area</a>. Five were entirely within the city council area. One, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_East_and_Musselburgh_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh East and Musselburgh</a>, straddled the boundary with the <a href="/wiki/East_Lothian_council_area" class="mw-redirect" title="East Lothian council area">East Lothian council area</a> to take in <a href="/wiki/Musselburgh" title="Musselburgh">Musselburgh</a>. </p><p>Constituency boundaries were revised for the 2005 election: Edinburgh West was enlarged, to include an area formerly within Edinburgh Central, and became one of five seats covering the city area.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>1885–1918</b>: The St. Andrew, St. Stephen, St. Bernard and St. Luke wards of the municipal burgh of Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>1918–1950</b>: The Dalry, Gorgie, Haymarket and St. Bernard's wards of the county of the city of Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>1950–1955</b>: The Corstorphine, Murrayfield-Cramond, St. Bernard's and Pilton wards of the county of the city of Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>1955–1974</b>: The Corstorphine (with the exception of the area added by the Edinburgh Corporation Order Confirmation Act 1954), Murrayfield-Cramond, and Pilton wards of the county of the city of Edinburgh, and part of the St. Bernard's ward.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>1974–1983</b>: The Corstorphine and Murrayfield-Cramond wards of the county of the city of Edinburgh, and that part of Pilton ward which is not included in the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Leith" class="mw-redirect" title="Edinburgh Leith">Edinburgh Leith</a> constituency.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>1983–1997</b>: Electoral divisions 11 (Cramond/Parkgrove), 15 (Corstorphine North), 16 (Telford/Blackhall), 19 (Corstorphine South) and 26 (Moat/Stenhouse) in the City of Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>1997–2005</b>: Electoral divisions 11 (Queensferry/Kirkliston), 12 (Cramond/Blackhall), 13 (Drylaw/Muirhouse), 16 (Corstorphine North), and 21 (Corstorphine South) in the City of Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1997 to 2007 the seat comprised the following wards: <a href="/wiki/Cramond" title="Cramond">Cramond</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Dalmeny_and_Kirkliston&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dalmeny and Kirkliston (page does not exist)">Dalmeny and Kirkliston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Davidson%27s_Mains" title="Davidson's Mains">Davidson's Mains</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Craigs" title="East Craigs">East Craigs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Gyle">Gyle</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Muirhouse_and_Drylaw&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Muirhouse and Drylaw (page does not exist)">Muirhouse and Drylaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Murrayfield" title="Murrayfield">Murrayfield</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=North_East_Corstorphine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="North East Corstorphine (page does not exist)">North East Corstorphine</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Queensferry" title="South Queensferry">Queensferry</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=South_East_Corstorphine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="South East Corstorphine (page does not exist)">South East Corstorphine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stenhouse,_Edinburgh" title="Stenhouse, Edinburgh">Stenhouse</a>. </p><p>As of 2007, as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Local_Governance_(Scotland)_Act_2004" title="Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004">Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004</a>, none of the new Edinburgh wards were wholly within the constituency. <a href="/wiki/Almond_(Edinburgh_ward)" class="mw-redirect" title="Almond (Edinburgh ward)">Almond</a> and <a href="/wiki/Corstorphine/Murrayfield_(Edinburgh_ward)" class="mw-redirect" title="Corstorphine/Murrayfield (Edinburgh ward)">Corstorphine/Murrayfield</a> are almost entirely within it except for a small corner of each one. The constituency also includes a majority of <a href="/wiki/Drum_Brae/Gyle_(Edinburgh_ward)" class="mw-redirect" title="Drum Brae/Gyle (Edinburgh ward)">Drum Brae/Gyle</a>, a minority of <a href="/wiki/Pentland_Hills_(Edinburgh_ward)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentland Hills (Edinburgh ward)">Pentland Hills</a> and small sections of <a href="/wiki/Forth_(Edinburgh_ward)" title="Forth (Edinburgh ward)">Forth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inverleith_(Edinburgh_ward)" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverleith (Edinburgh ward)">Inverleith</a>, <a href="/wiki/City_Centre_(Edinburgh_ward)" title="City Centre (Edinburgh ward)">City Centre</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sighthill/Gorgie_(Edinburgh_ward)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sighthill/Gorgie (Edinburgh ward)">Sighthill/Gorgie</a>. </p><p>The boundary was adjusted for the 2024 general election to include additional parts of the Inverleith and Corstorphine/Murrayfield wards from the Edinburgh North and Leith constituency.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Year</th> <th>Member<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1885 United Kingdom general election">1885</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Buchanan_(Liberal_politician)" title="Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)">Thomas Buchanan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">1886</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Unionist">Liberal Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=1888_Edinburgh_West_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1888 Edinburgh West by-election (page does not exist)">1888 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">1892</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Palmer,_2nd_Earl_of_Selborne" title="William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne">Viscount Wolmer</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Unionist">Liberal Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=1895_Edinburgh_West_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1895 Edinburgh West by-election (page does not exist)">1895 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lewis_McIver" title="Lewis McIver">Lewis McIver</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Unionist">Liberal Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1909_Edinburgh_West_by-election" title="1909 Edinburgh West by-election">1909 by-election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/James_Avon_Clyde" class="mw-redirect" title="James Avon Clyde">James Avon Clyde</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Unionist">Liberal Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><i>1912</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">1918</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Gordon_Jameson" title="John Gordon Jameson">John Gordon Jameson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Coalition_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Coalition Conservative">Coalition Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">1922</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vivian_Phillipps" title="Vivian Phillipps">Vivian Phillipps</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">1924</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_MacIntyre" title="Ian MacIntyre">Ian MacIntyre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Mathers,_1st_Baron_Mathers" title="George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers">George Mathers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">1931</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Guild_Normand" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilfrid Guild Normand">Wilfrid Guild Normand</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1935_Edinburgh_West_by-election" title="1935 Edinburgh West by-election">1935 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Mackay_Cooper" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Mackay Cooper">Thomas Mackay Cooper</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1941_Edinburgh_West_by-election" title="1941 Edinburgh West by-election">1941 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ian_Clark_Hutchison" title="Ian Clark Hutchison">Ian Clark Hutchison</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">1959</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Stodart" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Stodart">Anthony Stodart</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)#Merger_with_the_Conservative_Party" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">1965</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">Oct 1974</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lord_James_Douglas-Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord James Douglas-Hamilton">Lord James Douglas-Hamilton</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_and_Unionist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Donald_Gorrie" title="Donald Gorrie">Donald Gorrie</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Andrew_Barrett" class="mw-redirect" title="John Andrew Barrett">John Barrett</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mike_Crockart" title="Mike Crockart">Mike Crockart</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Thomson" title="Michelle Thomson">Michelle Thomson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC"> </td> <td><i>2015</i><sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Christine_Jardine" title="Christine Jardine">Christine Jardine</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrat</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2020s">Elections in the 2020s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2020s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">General election 2024</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Christine_Jardine" title="Christine Jardine">Christine Jardine</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,645 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+12.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Euan Hyslop </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,175 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour" title="Scottish Labour">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael Davidson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,854 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alastair Shields </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,897 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #12B6CF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Otto Inglis </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,209 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00B140; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Green Party">Scottish Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">James Puchowski </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,100 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Henry </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">363 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Nick Hornig </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">143 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #F0DC83; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Libertarian_Party" title="Scottish Libertarian Party">Scottish Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tam Laird </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,470 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+24.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,471 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">76,490 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+13.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2010s">Elections in the 2010s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">General election 2019</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBP-8749_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBP-8749-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Christine_Jardine" title="Christine Jardine">Christine Jardine</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,766 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>39.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sarah Masson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,997 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Graham Hutchison </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,283 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–4.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Craig Bolton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,460 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–6.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00B140; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Green Party">Scottish Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Elaine Gunn </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,027 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,769 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54,533 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">72,507 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/General_election_2017" class="mw-redirect" title="General election 2017">General election 2017</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBP-7979_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBP-7979-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Christine_Jardine" title="Christine Jardine">Christine Jardine</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>18,108 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>34.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Toni Giugliano </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,120 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–10.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_and_Unionist_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sandy Batho </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,559 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Mandy_Telford" title="Mandy Telford">Mandy Telford</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,876 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">Scotland's Independence Referendum Party </td> <td class="fn">Mark Whittet </td> <td style="text-align:right;">132 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,988 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,795 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–2.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">c.71,500 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">General election 2015</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2015_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2015-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDF38E; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Thomson" title="Michelle Thomson">Michelle Thomson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,378 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>39.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+25.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Crockart" title="Mike Crockart">Mike Crockart</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,168 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–2.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Lindsay Paterson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,732 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–10.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Cameron Day </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,425 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–16.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00B140; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Green Party">Scottish Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Pat Black </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,140 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Otto Inglis </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,015 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,210 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54,858 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDF38E"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+14.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">General election 2010</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2010_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2010-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Mike_Crockart" title="Mike Crockart">Mike Crockart</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>16,684 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>35.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>–13.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Cameron Day </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,881 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Stewart Geddes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,767 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sheena M. Cleland </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,115 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,803 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–21.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46,447 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">71.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">–11.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2000s">Elections in the 2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">General election 2005</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2005_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2005-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Barrett_(Scottish_politician)" title="John Barrett (Scottish politician)">John Barrett</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>22,417 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+11.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">David A. Brogan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,817 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Navraj Singh Ghaleigh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,433 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sheena M. Cleland </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,124 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00B140; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Green Party">Scottish Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ailsa Spindler </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">964 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #ff0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Party" title="Scottish Socialist Party">Scottish Socialist</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gary P. Clark </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">510 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,600 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45,265 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">General election 2001</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2001_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2001-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Barrett_(Scottish_politician)" title="John Barrett (Scottish politician)">John Barrett</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>16,719 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>42.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Elspeth Alexandra </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,130 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">Iain Whyte </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,894 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Alyn_Smith" title="Alyn Smith">Alyn Smith</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,047 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #ff0000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Party" title="Scottish Socialist Party">Scottish Socialist</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bill Scott </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">688 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,589 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,478 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1990s">Elections in the 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">General election 1997</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1997_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1997-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FAA61A; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Donald_Gorrie" title="Donald Gorrie">Donald Gorrie</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>20,578 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+13.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Douglas-Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="James Douglas-Hamilton">James Douglas-Hamilton</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,325 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Hinds" title="Lesley Hinds">Lesley Hinds</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,948 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Graham D. Sutherland </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,210 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #bf475c; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party" title="Referendum Party">Referendum</a> </td> <td class="fn">Stephen C. Elphick </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">277 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #EB7A43; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK,_1989)" title="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Paul N. Coombes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">263 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Antony C.O. Jack </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,253 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47,631 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FAA61A"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+11.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">General election 1992</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1992_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1992-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Douglas-Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="James Douglas-Hamilton">James Douglas-Hamilton</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>18,071 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>37.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Gorrie" title="Donald Gorrie">Donald Gorrie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,192 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Irene A. Kitson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,759 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Graham D. Sutherland </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,117 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #EB7A43; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK,_1989)" title="Liberal Party (UK, 1989)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alan R. Fleming </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">272 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00B140; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Green Party">Scottish Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Linda Hendry </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">234 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2e3b74; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/British_National_Party" title="British National Party">BNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">David J. Bruce </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">133 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">879 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48,778 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative Party">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1980s">Elections in the 1980s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1980s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">General election 1987</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1987_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1987-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Douglas-Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="James Douglas-Hamilton">James Douglas-Hamilton</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>18,450 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>37.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Derek G. King </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,216 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael McGregor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,957 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Norman_Irons" title="Norman Irons">Norman Irons</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,774 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,234 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49,397 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">General election 1983</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1983_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1983-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Douglas-Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="James Douglas-Hamilton">James Douglas-Hamilton</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>17,646 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−5.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Derek G. King </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,148 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+17.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alec Wood </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,313 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Nicoll </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,126 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">498 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−16.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46,233 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1970s">Elections in the 1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">General election 1979</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Douglas-Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="James Douglas-Hamilton">James Douglas-Hamilton</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>19,360 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45.44 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+7.29 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael C.B. McGregor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,009 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.97 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">R Callendar </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,330 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.80 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Colin_Bell_(journalist)" title="Colin Bell (journalist)">Colin Bell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,904 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.05 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,351 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.32 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42,603 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.24 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/October_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="October 1974 United Kingdom general election">General election October 1974</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Douglas-Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="James Douglas-Hamilton">James Douglas-Hamilton</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>15,354 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.15 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−6.06 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">WJ Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,152 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.83 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Catherina McMillan Moore </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,135 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.29 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Gorrie" title="Donald Gorrie">Donald Gorrie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,606 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.08 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,202 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40,247 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">General election February 1974</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Stodart" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Stodart">Anthony Stodart</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>18,908 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44.21 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−7.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">WJ Taylor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,431 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Gorrie" title="Donald Gorrie">Donald Gorrie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,189 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+13.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Catherina McMillan Moore </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,241 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,477 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.82 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42,769 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">General election 1970</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Stodart" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Stodart">Anthony Stodart</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,864 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.23 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.94 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Foulkes,_Baron_Foulkes_of_Cumnock" title="George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock">George Foulkes</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,523 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.78 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.18 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Gorrie" title="Donald Gorrie">Donald Gorrie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,467 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.56 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Gibson_(politician)" title="Muriel Gibson (politician)">Muriel Gibson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,711 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,341 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.45 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.12 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54,565 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1960s">Elections in the 1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">General election 1966</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Stodart" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Stodart">Anthony Stodart</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>24,882 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.29 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.27 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Dick_Douglas" title="Dick Douglas">Dick Douglas</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,073 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.66 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">James R Telfer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,571 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.39 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,809 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51,526 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">78.66 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1964_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1964 United Kingdom general election">General election 1964</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Stodart" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Stodart">Anthony Stodart</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,298 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.56 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−5.93 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">James K Stocks </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,359 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.76 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">James R Telfer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,352 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.17 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,939 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,009 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1950s">Elections in the 1950s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1950s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1959_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1959 United Kingdom general election">General election 1959</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Stodart" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthony Stodart">Anthony Stodart</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>25,976 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.49 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−10.55 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">James K Stocks </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,044 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.42 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Leach_(Scottish_physicist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Leach (Scottish physicist)">Donald Leach</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,962 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.97 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,932 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45,982 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">General election 1955</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Clark_Hutchison" title="Ian Clark Hutchison">Ian Clark Hutchison</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,000 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>67.04 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">James Alexander Cuthburt Thomson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,784 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,216 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38,784 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">General election 1951</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Clark_Hutchison" title="Ian Clark Hutchison">Ian Clark Hutchison</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,232 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>65.95 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Harry S Wilson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,607 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.05 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,625 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.90 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45,839 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1950_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1950 United Kingdom general election">General election 1950</a>: Edinburgh West <sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Clark_Hutchison" title="Ian Clark Hutchison">Ian Clark Hutchison</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,978 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.03 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn">C Morgan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,377 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.99 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Margaret Walker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,586 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.98 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,601 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44,941 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">82.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1940s">Elections in the 1940s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1940s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1945_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1945 United Kingdom general election">General election 1945</a>: Edinburgh West </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Clark_Hutchison" title="Ian Clark Hutchison">Ian Clark Hutchison</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>19,894 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>47.38 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−19.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Stott" class="mw-redirect" title="Gordon Stott">Gordon Stott</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,840 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Gibson Thomson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,256 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,054 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−31.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41,990 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1941_Edinburgh_West_by-election" title="1941 Edinburgh West by-election">By-election 1941</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Clark_Hutchison" title="Ian Clark Hutchison">Ian Clark Hutchison</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>Unopposed </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><i>N/A</i> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><i>N/A</i> </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1930s">Elections in the 1930s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1930s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1935 United Kingdom general election">General election 1935</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cooper,_1st_Baron_Cooper_of_Culross" title="Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross">Thomas Cooper</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>28,023 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>67.01 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Welch </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,794 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.99 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,229 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41,817 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">69.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1935_Edinburgh_West_by-election" title="1935 Edinburgh West by-election">1935 Edinburgh West by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cooper,_1st_Baron_Cooper_of_Culross" title="Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross">Thomas Cooper</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>16,373 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−18.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">William McAdam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,462 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Paish" title="George Paish">George Paish</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,059 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,911 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−23.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,894 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−28.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1931 United Kingdom general election">General election 1931</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Normand" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilfrid Normand">Wilfrid Normand</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>31,407 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>71.20 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+39.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Mathers,_1st_Baron_Mathers" title="George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers">George Mathers</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,704 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,703 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44,111 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1920s">Elections in the 1920s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1920s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">General election 1929</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/George_Mathers,_1st_Baron_Mathers" title="George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers">George Mathers</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>15,795 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Normand" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilfrid Normand">Wilfrid Normand</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,966 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #ffd700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Party" title="Scottish Liberal Party">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Vivian_Phillipps" title="Vivian Phillipps">Vivian Phillipps</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,126 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,829 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40,887 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">54,695 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1924_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1924 United Kingdom general election">General election 1924</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#5555FF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ian_Macintyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Ian Macintyre">Ian Macintyre</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,628 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>36.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+3.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Mathers,_1st_Baron_Mathers" title="George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers">George Mathers</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,603 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Vivian_Phillipps" title="Vivian Phillipps">Vivian Phillipps</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,790 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,025 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,021 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">36,618 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−1.9 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vivian_Phillipps.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/Vivian_Phillipps.jpg/120px-Vivian_Phillipps.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/Vivian_Phillipps.jpg/180px-Vivian_Phillipps.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/Vivian_Phillipps.jpg/240px-Vivian_Phillipps.jpg 2x" data-file-width="708" data-file-height="966" /></a><figcaption>Phillipps</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1923_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1923 United Kingdom general election">General election 1923</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Vivian_Phillipps" title="Vivian Phillipps">Vivian Phillipps</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>11,010 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>41.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−10.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Macintyre" class="mw-redirect" title="Ian Macintyre">Ian Macintyre</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,778 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Mathers,_1st_Baron_Mathers" title="George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers">George Mathers</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,836 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,232 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26,624 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">35,809 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vivian_Phillips.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Vivian_Phillips.jpg/120px-Vivian_Phillips.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Vivian_Phillips.jpg/180px-Vivian_Phillips.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Vivian_Phillips.jpg/240px-Vivian_Phillips.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1013" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Vivian Phillipps</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1922_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1922 United Kingdom general election">General election 1922</a>: Edinburgh West <sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Vivian_Phillipps" title="Vivian Phillipps">Vivian Phillipps</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>12,355 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+16.9 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Gordon_Jameson" title="John Gordon Jameson">John Gordon Jameson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,689 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">666 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,044 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">34,899 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+9.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1910s">Elections in the 1910s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1910s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1918 United Kingdom general election">General election 1918</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #5555FF; width: 5px"><b><a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon"><span style="color:white">C</span></a></b> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Gordon_Jameson" title="John Gordon Jameson">John Gordon Jameson</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>9,172</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>50.8</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>−3.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Parrott" title="Edward Parrott">Edward Parrott</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,220 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Alexander Young </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,642 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,952 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,034 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−37.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">33,835 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #5555FF"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Unionist_Party_(Scotland)" title="Unionist Party (Scotland)">Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="6"><b>C</b> <small>indicates <a href="/wiki/Coalition_Coupon" title="Coalition Coupon">candidate endorsed by the coalition government</a>.</small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/December_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="December 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election December 1910</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#2061A2; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Avon_Clyde" class="mw-redirect" title="James Avon Clyde">James Avon Clyde</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,952 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/J.H._Morgan" class="mw-redirect" title="J.H. Morgan">J.H. Morgan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,252 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">700 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,204 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10,179 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+1.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/January_1910_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="January 1910 United Kingdom general election">General election January 1910</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#2061A2; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Avon_Clyde" class="mw-redirect" title="James Avon Clyde">James Avon Clyde</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,683 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Lyell" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Henry Lyell">Charles Henry Lyell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,233 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">450 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,916 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9,758 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1900s">Elections in the 1900s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1900s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1909_Edinburgh_West_by-election" title="1909 Edinburgh West by-election">By-election, 1909</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Avon_Clyde" class="mw-redirect" title="James Avon Clyde">James Avon Clyde</a></b> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3"><i><b>Unopposed</b></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Leonard_Courtney,_1st_Baron_Courtney_of_Penwith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Portrait_of_Leonard_Courtney%2C_1st_Baron_Courtney_of_Penwith.jpg/120px-Portrait_of_Leonard_Courtney%2C_1st_Baron_Courtney_of_Penwith.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Portrait_of_Leonard_Courtney%2C_1st_Baron_Courtney_of_Penwith.jpg/180px-Portrait_of_Leonard_Courtney%2C_1st_Baron_Courtney_of_Penwith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Portrait_of_Leonard_Courtney%2C_1st_Baron_Courtney_of_Penwith.jpg/240px-Portrait_of_Leonard_Courtney%2C_1st_Baron_Courtney_of_Penwith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="542" data-file-height="662" /></a><figcaption>Courtney</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1906_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1906 United Kingdom general election">General election 1906</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#2061A2; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Lewis_McIver" title="Lewis McIver">Lewis McIver</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,949 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.0 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−9.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Courtney" class="mw-redirect" title="Leonard Courtney">Leonard Courtney</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,643 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">306 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−18.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,592 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,930 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+9.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1900_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1900 United Kingdom general election">General election 1900</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#2061A2; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Lewis_McIver" title="Lewis McIver">Lewis McIver</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,180 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>61.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><i>N/A</i> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">E. Adam </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,645 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,535 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,825 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,926 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>N/A</i> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1890s">Elections in the 1890s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1890s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1895_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1895 United Kingdom general election">General election 1895</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Lewis_McIver" title="Lewis McIver">Lewis McIver</a></b> </td> <td style="background: ; color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na" colspan="3"><i><b>Unopposed</b></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2;"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1895_Edinburgh_West_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1895 Edinburgh West by-election (page does not exist)">By-Election, 1895</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#2061A2; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Lewis_McIver" title="Lewis McIver">Lewis McIver</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,783 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.5 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Murray,_1st_Baron_Murray_of_Elibank" title="Alexander Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank">Alexander Murray</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,075 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">708 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,858 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,452 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+1.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1892 United Kingdom general election">General election 1892</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-craig1885_44-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-craig1885-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#2061A2; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Palmer,_2nd_Earl_of_Selborne" title="William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne">William Palmer</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,728 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Buchanan_(Liberal_politician)" title="Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)">Thomas Buchanan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,216 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">512 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,944 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,236 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−2.6 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1880s">Elections in the 1880s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1880s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/w/index.php?title=1888_Edinburgh_West_by-election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1888 Edinburgh West by-election (page does not exist)">1888 Edinburgh West by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-debretts_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-debretts-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Buchanan_(Liberal_politician)" title="Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)">Thomas Buchanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,294 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2061A2; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Raleigh" title="Thomas Raleigh">Thomas Raleigh</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,248 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,542 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7,749 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFD700"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.7 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <ul><li>Caused by Buchanan's resignation to seek re-election as a Liberal candidate.</li></ul> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">General election 1886</a>: Edinburgh West<sup id="cite_ref-debretts_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-debretts-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_39-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#2061A2; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Buchanan_(Liberal_politician)" title="Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)">Thomas Buchanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,083 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+15.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wallace_(MP_for_Perth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Wallace (MP for Perth)">Robert Wallace</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,393 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">690 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,476 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">72.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7,565 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #2061A2"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Unionist_Party" title="Liberal Unionist Party">Liberal Unionist</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+15.4 </td> <td> </td></tr> 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election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Buchanan_(Liberal_politician)" title="Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)">Thomas Buchanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,800 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>59.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b><i>N/A</i> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Auldjo_Jamieson" title="George Auldjo Jamieson">George Auldjo Jamieson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,625 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,175 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,425 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7,565 </td> <td style="text-align:right; 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London: Macmillan Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781349022984" title="Special:BookSources/9781349022984"><bdi>9781349022984</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Parliamentary+Election+Results%3A+1885%E2%80%931918&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Macmillan+Press&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=9781349022984&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdinburgh+West+%28UK+Parliament+constituency%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907_45-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907_45-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Whitaker's_Almanack,_1907_45-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Whitaker's Almanack, 1907</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Whitaker's Almanack, 1893</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-debretts-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-debretts_47-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-debretts_47-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-debretts_47-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench, 1889</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edinburgh_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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constituency)">Bathgate and Linlithgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Ayrshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Central Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Central Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_and_Bellshill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Coatbridge and Bellshill (UK Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge and Bellshill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowdenbeath_and_Kirkcaldy_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (UK Parliament constituency)">Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbernauld_and_Kirkintilloch_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch (UK Parliament constituency)">Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline_and_Dollar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dunfermline and Dollar (UK Parliament constituency)">Dunfermline and Dollar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Kilbride_and_Strathaven_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Kilbride and Strathaven (UK Parliament constituency)">East Kilbride and Strathaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">East Renfrewshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_East_and_Musselburgh_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh East and Musselburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_North_and_Leith_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh North and Leith (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh North and Leith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South West (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Falkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow East (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow North (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_North_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow North East (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow North East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow South (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow South West (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow South West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow West (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenrothes_and_Mid_Fife_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glenrothes and Mid Fife (UK Parliament constituency)">Glenrothes and Mid Fife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_and_Clyde_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hamilton and Clyde Valley (UK Parliament constituency)">Hamilton and Clyde Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_and_Renfrewshire_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilmarnock_and_Loudoun_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency)">Kilmarnock and Loudoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Livingston (UK Parliament constituency)">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lothian_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lothian East (UK Parliament constituency)">Lothian East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midlothian_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency)">Midlothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherwell,_Wishaw_and_Carluke_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke (UK Parliament constituency)">Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Na_h-Eileanan_an_Iar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency)">Na h-Eileanan an Iar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Ayrshire_and_Arran_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Ayrshire and Arran (UK Parliament constituency)">North Ayrshire and Arran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley and Renfrewshire South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutherglen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rutherglen (UK Parliament constituency)">Rutherglen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stirling_and_Strathallan_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stirling and Strathallan (UK Parliament constituency)">Stirling and Strathallan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Dunbartonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">West Dunbartonshire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a> (9)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeen North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeen South (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeen South</a></li> <li><a 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Ross-shire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Dunbartonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Mid Dunbartonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Fife_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)">North East Fife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_and_Shetland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)">Orkney and Shetland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> (5)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berwickshire,_Roxburgh_and_Selkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk</a></li> <li><a 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1885">1868 to 1885</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1885_to_1918" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1885 to 1918">1885 to 1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1918_to_1950" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1918 to 1950">1918 to 1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1950_to_1955" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1950 to 1955">1950 to 1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1955_to_1974" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1955 to 1974">1955 to 1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1974_to_1983" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1974 to 1983">1974 to 1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1983_to_1997" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1983 to 1997">1983 to 1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_1997_to_2005" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 1997 to 2005">1997 to 2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Westminster_constituencies_2005_to_2024" title="Scottish Westminster constituencies 2005 to 2024">2005 to 2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:#bfd7ff;padding:1px;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><b>Current constituencies (2024)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeen North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeen South (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeen South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeenshire_North_and_Moray_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Aberdeenshire North and Moray East (UK Parliament constituency)">Aberdeenshire North and Moray East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Airdrie_and_Shotts_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Airdrie and Shotts (UK Parliament constituency)">Airdrie & Shotts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alloa_and_Grangemouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Alloa and Grangemouth (UK Parliament constituency)">Alloa & Grangemouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_and_Perthshire_Glens_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Angus and Perthshire Glens (UK Parliament constituency)">Angus & Perthshire Glens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arbroath_and_Broughty_Ferry_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Arbroath and Broughty Ferry (UK Parliament constituency)">Arbroath & Broughty Ferry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyll,_Bute_and_South_Lochaber_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)">Argyll, Bute & South Lochaber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayr,_Carrick_and_Cumnock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock (UK Parliament constituency)">Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathgate_and_Linlithgow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bathgate and Linlithgow (UK Parliament constituency)">Bathgate & Linlithgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berwickshire,_Roxburgh_and_Selkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caithness,_Sutherland_and_Easter_Ross_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (UK Parliament constituency)">Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Ayrshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Central Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Central Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coatbridge_and_Bellshill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Coatbridge and Bellshill (UK Parliament constituency)">Coatbridge & Bellshill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowdenbeath_and_Kirkcaldy_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (UK Parliament constituency)">Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbernauld_and_Kirkintilloch_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch (UK Parliament constituency)">Cumbernauld & Kirkintilloch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumfries_and_Galloway_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dumfries and Galloway (UK Parliament constituency)">Dumfries & Galloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumfriesshire,_Clydesdale_and_Tweeddale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (UK Parliament constituency)">Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dundee_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline_and_Dollar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dunfermline and Dollar (UK Parliament constituency)">Dunfermline & Dollar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Kilbride_and_Strathaven_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Kilbride and Strathaven (UK Parliament constituency)">East Kilbride & Strathaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Renfrewshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)">East Renfrewshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_East_and_Musselburgh_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh East & Musselburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_North_and_Leith_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh North and Leith (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh North & Leith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh South West (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh South West</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Edinburgh West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Falkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow East (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow North (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_North_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow North East (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow North East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow South (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_South_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow South West (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow South West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow West (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenrothes_and_Mid_Fife_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glenrothes and Mid Fife (UK Parliament constituency)">Glenrothes & Mid Fife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_and_Buchan_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gordon and Buchan (UK Parliament constituency)">Gordon & Buchan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_and_Clyde_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hamilton and Clyde Valley (UK Parliament constituency)">Hamilton & Clyde Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_and_Renfrewshire_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverclyde & Renfrewshire West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverness,_Skye_and_West_Ross-shire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)">Inverness, Skye & West Ross-shire </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilmarnock_and_Loudoun_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kilmarnock and Loudoun (UK Parliament constituency)">Kilmarnock & Loudoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Livingston (UK Parliament constituency)">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lothian_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lothian East (UK Parliament constituency)">Lothian East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Dunbartonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Mid Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Mid Dunbartonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midlothian_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Midlothian (UK Parliament constituency)">Midlothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moray_West,_Nairn_and_Strathspey_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey (UK Parliament constituency)">Moray West, Nairn & Strathspey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherwell,_Wishaw_and_Carluke_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke (UK Parliament constituency)">Motherwell, Wishaw & Carluke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Na_h-Eileanan_an_Iar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency)">Na h-Eileanan an Iar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Ayrshire_and_Arran_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North Ayrshire and Arran (UK Parliament constituency)">North Ayrshire & Arran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Fife_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)">North East Fife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_and_Shetland_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency)">Orkney & Shetland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire North (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley & Renfrewshire North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_and_Renfrewshire_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley and Renfrewshire South (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley & Renfrewshire South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_and_Kinross-shire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Perth and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)">Perth & Kinross-shire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rutherglen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rutherglen (UK Parliament constituency)">Rutherglen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stirling_and_Strathallan_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stirling and Strathallan (UK Parliament constituency)">Stirling & Strathallan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Aberdeenshire_and_Kincardine_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (UK Parliament constituency)">West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Dunbartonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="West Dunbartonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">West Dunbartonshire</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Dundee_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee East (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dundee_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dundee West (UK Parliament constituency)">Dundee West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline_Burghs_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dunfermline Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)">Dunfermline Burghs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh East (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Leith_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh Leith (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh Leith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh North (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Pentlands_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Edinburgh Pentlands (UK Parliament constituency)">Edinburgh Pentlands</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Edinburgh West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Bridgeton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Bridgeton (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Bridgeton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Camlachie_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Camlachie (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Camlachie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Cathcart_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Cathcart (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Cathcart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Gorbals_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Gorbals (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Gorbals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Govan_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Govan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Hillhead_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Hillhead (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Hillhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Kelvingrove_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Kelvingrove (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Kelvingrove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Maryhill_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Maryhill (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Maryhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Pollok_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Pollok (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Pollok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Scotstoun_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Scotstoun (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Scotstoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Shettleston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Shettleston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Springburn_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Springburn (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Springburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Tradeston_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Tradeston (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Tradeston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Woodside_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Glasgow Woodside (UK Parliament constituency)">Glasgow Woodside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenock_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Greenock (UK Parliament constituency)">Greenock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkcaldy_Burghs_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Kirkcaldy Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)">Kirkcaldy Burghs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paisley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)">Paisley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stirling_and_Falkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Stirling and Falkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Stirling and Falkirk Burghs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/County_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituencies">County<br />constituencies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argyllshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Argyllshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Argyll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayr_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ayr (UK Parliament constituency)">Ayr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banffshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Banffshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Banffshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berwick_and_East_Lothian_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berwick and East Lothian (UK Parliament constituency)">Berwick and East Lothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bothwell_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bothwell (UK Parliament constituency)">Bothwell</a></li> <li><a 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