Perth and North Perthshire
2005 Results:
SNP: 15469 (33.7%)
Conservative: 13948 (30.4%)
Labour: 8601 (18.7%)
Liberal Democrat: 7403 (16.1%)
Other: 509 (1.1%)
Majority: 1521 (3.3%)
Boundary changes prior to 2005 electionEM631: Name of seat changed from Perth.
2001 Result
Conservative: 11189 (29.6%)
Labour: 9638 (25.5%)
Liberal Democrat: 4853 (12.8%)
SNP: 11237 (29.7%)
Other: 899 (2.4%)
Majority: 48 (0.1%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 13068 (29.3%)
Labour: 11036 (24.8%)
Liberal Democrat: 3583 (8%)
SNP: 16209 (36.4%)
Referendum: 366 (0.8%)
Other: 289 (0.6%)
Majority: 3141 (7.1%)
No Boundary Changes:
Profile:
Outgoing MP: Pete Wishart(SNP) (more information at They work for you)
Candidates: Peter Lyburn (Conservative) Jamie Glackin (Labour) Peter Barrett (Liberal Democrat) Pete Wishart(SNP) (more information at They work for you)
2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 89814
Male: 48%
Female: 52%
Under 18: 21.7%
Over 60: 24.5%
Born outside UK: 3.9%
White: 99%
Asian: 0.3%
Mixed: 0.2%
Other: 0.4%
Christian: 65.4%
Full time students: 0%
Graduates 16-74: 21.8%
No Qualifications 16-74: 31.2%
Owner-Occupied: 63.2%
Social Housing: 21.6% (Council: 17%, Housing Ass.: 4.7%)
Privately Rented: 10.9%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 6.9%
Was in Perth & East Perthshire till 1983, then Perth & Kinross 1983 – 1997, Perth 1997 – 2005 and Perth & North Perthshire since.
Hmm, in a Commons speech in 1996 Bill Walker said that Scone was in his constituency (then Tayside North)……perhaps Pete Whitehead could help?
Hmm, in a Commons speech in 1996 Bill Walker said that Scone was in his constituency (then Tayside North)……perhaps Pete Whitehead or someone else could help?
I cannot see the Lib-Dems tactically voting for the SNP, afterall I assume that a large proportion of the party’s supporters in 2005 were middle class voters who were still ambivilant about supporting Howard’s Conservatives. A squeeze in the Lib-Dems’ share of the vote will probably help Labour and the Conservatives equally.
If I had a crystal ball and I think to the afternoon on the day after election day, I can quite easily see the Conservatives taking all three Borders seats (Dumfries & Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale and Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk and then there is an usual splash of blue in central Scotland indicating the new Conservative held Perth & North Perthshire.
Does anyone know the notional results of the newly proposed Scottish Parliament constituencies for this area, by any chance?
Harry – Scone is in the North Tayside seat for Holyrood which means it would have been in that Westminster seat also before 2005, presumably since 1983. Bill Walker was originally elected for Perth & East Perthshire in 1979 and that would have included Scone then also.
Phil -Will PAtterson kindly sent me some notional results which he had worked out oin the new boundaries. I hope he doesnt mind me reproducing the results for the two Perthshire seats here:
Perthshire North
SNP 14783 49.08%
Con 8921 29.62%
LD 3376 11.21%
Lab 2910 9.66%
FSP 133 0.44%
Perthshire South & Kinross-shire
SNP 12267 38.86%
Con 9998 31.67%
Lab 4510 14.29%
LD 4353 13.79%
FSP 442 1.40%
‘Scone is in the North Tayside seat for Holyrood which means it would have been in that Westminster seat also before 2005, presumably since 1983. Bill Walker was originally elected for Perth & East Perthshire in 1979 and that would have included Scone then also’
From further research on Wikipedia I ascertain that Scone was in Perthshire East from 1885 to 1918, Perth from 1918 to 1950 and the seats discussed above since
Thanks, Pete. That was very good of you to share those. I had been hoping that the latter would have been notionally Conservative, but no surprises about the former!
Would it be possible if you could send me the rest of the results via e-mail?
Pete,
The new Perthshire boundaries now divide the city of Perth in two (hence the dropping of the city name from either county seat).
Tayside North (to be Perthshire North) loses its more Tory Angus wards and gains North Perth with a larger SNP/ Lab vote – hence an increased SNP majority.
Perth (to be Perthshire South & Kinross) loses the North of Perth but gains Kinross-shire – hence little difference on the SNP maj over the Tories but a reduction in the share of the Labour vote (who have some support in Perth).
does any one have a list of trade union funded seats? just to be balance it up
Conservatives will be encouraged by being only 1% behind the SNP in the latest national poll…I think they could take this more easily than Angus.
As I pointed out on the thread attached to that poll, even so the SNP would hold the seat since there is only a minuscule swing to the Conservatives shown in the poll.
That is assuming a uniform move across the country. I think the Conservatives will do better in the seats they have targeted and that alot of the SNP vote will move from the rural seats to more urban seats. The Conservatives normally do better in the elections in Scotland than they ever poll so they will be encouraged by 20%.
No, this is incorrect. Scone was in Perth & East Perthshire till 1983, then North Tayside 1983 – 1997, North Tayside 1997 – 2005 and Perth & North Perthshire since.
So Bill Walker did, in fact, represent Scone in Parliament continuously from 1979 until 1997.