Moray
2010 Results:
Conservative: 10683 (26.05%)
Labour: 7007 (17.09%)
Liberal Democrat: 5956 (14.53%)
SNP: 16273 (39.69%)
UKIP: 1085 (2.65%)
Majority: 5590 (13.64%)
2005 Results:
SNP: 14196 (36.6%)
Conservative: 8520 (22%)
Labour: 7919 (20.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 7460 (19.2%)
Other: 698 (1.8%)
Majority: 5676 (14.6%)
Boundary changes prior to 2005 electionEM631.
2001 Result
Conservative: 7677 (23.1%)
Labour: 8332 (25.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 5224 (15.7%)
SNP: 10076 (30.3%)
UKIP: 291 (0.9%)
Other: 1623 (4.9%)
Majority: 1744 (5.2%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 10963 (27.6%)
Labour: 7886 (19.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 3548 (8.9%)
SNP: 16529 (41.6%)
Referendum: 840 (2.1%)
Majority: 5566 (14%)
No Boundary Changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Angus Robertson(SNP) (more information at They work for you)
Douglas Ross (Conservative) Keiron Green (Labour)James Paterson (Liberal Democrat)Angus Robertson(SNP) (more information at They work for you)Donald Gatt (UKIP)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 86940
Male: 50%
Female: 50%
Under 18: 23.8%
Over 60: 21.5%
Born outside UK: 3.7%
White: 99.1%
Asian: 0.3%
Mixed: 0.2%
Other: 0.3%
Christian: 63.7%
Full time students: 0%
Graduates 16-74: 17.9%
No Qualifications 16-74: 31.5%
Owner-Occupied: 63.3%
Social Housing: 22.1% (Council: 18.3%, Housing Ass.: 3.8%)
Privately Rented: 10.7%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 5.5%
Spot on Will.
Will Patterson says: “Maybe party leaderships (my own included) ought to be careful how they make hay about these things as they don’t know (and can’t control) what their own people are doing and their party could always be next”
I agree with you on this, and was pleased to see that Angus Robertson (SNP Westminster Leader) did not have a real go at Labour over this in BBC Scotland’s politics program today.
However, I do think it is Labour (especially Murphy) who should be most chastened about this as they/he were very OTT in attacking SNP bloggers (none of whom were candidates) in recent weeks.
Agree with Will Paterson about LibDem prospects in Moray. They failed to achieve a breakthrough in the by-election and have faded away into non-contention. They failed to get any councillors elected in 2007. They have no organisation and no profile in Moray. The seat is a straightforward SNP-Conservative contest.
The Tories putting up a stronger fight than they have for years with a local candidate who has generated a fair amount of positive profile in the local media not least over the threat of flooding in his ward.
SNP
Conservative
Libdem
Labour
Majority – 4500
Following all the interest in Twitter and Facebook and the like, perhaps the Lib-Dems should be a bit concerned that their candidate has posted photos of himself canvassing in Inverness rather than Moray and his single tweet boasts of delivering leaflets in Stockbridge.
It might help his campaign if he went to Moray.
SNP Hold
Maj 3 200
Any new Labour candidate here?
Kieron Green, a 25 year old man from Elgin, is the new Labour candidate
Nice to see you commenting here again Will.
Thanks Andrea, and I echo Barnaby’s comments above
The new Labour candidate is the great great nephew of Sir Basil Clarke (War correspondent and British government wartime propaganda expert) and also the great nephew of S.R. Green (former chairman of Lintas – Unilever’s advertising agency).
SNP maj 6,500
SNP HOLD
SNP hold