United Kingdom general election, 1997 (Edinburgh)

United Kingdom general election, 1997

1 May 1997

All 6 Edinburgh seats to the House of Commons

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tony Blair	Paddy Ashdown	John Major
Party	Labour	Liberal Democrat	Conservative
Leader since	21 July 1994	16 July 1988	28 November 1990
Last election	4 Seats	0 Seats	2 Seats
Seats before	4	0	2
Seats won	5	1	0
Seat change	1	1	2
Popular vote	111,514	48,515	60,529
Percentage	39.1%	17.0%	21.2%

	Fourth party

Leader	Alex Salmond
Party	SNP
Leader since	22 September 1990
Last election	0 Seats
Seats before	0
Seats won	0
Seat change
Popular vote	39,898
Percentage	14.0%

Prime Minister before election

John Major
Conservative

Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Blair
Labour

These are the results of the United Kingdom general election, 1997 in the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The 1997 General Election was held on 1 May 1997 and five constituencies returned Labour Party MPs, with one returning a Liberal Democrat MP.

For the overall results in Scotland see 1997 United Kingdom general election results in Scotland.

Overall result

Party		MPs	+/-	Seats Contested	Votes	%	+/- %
	Labour Party	5	1	6	111,514	39.1
	Liberal Democrats	1	1	6	48,515	17.0
	Conservative Party	0	2	6	60,529	21.2
	Scottish National Party	0		6	39,898	14.0
	Scottish Socialist	0
	Scottish Green	0
	UKIP	0
	Legalise Cannabis	0
	Socialist Labour	0
Total		6			285,243	100.0

Results in Full

Constituency	Labour Party (UK)	Liberal Democrats	Scottish National Party	Conservative Party (UK)
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh	22,564 (53.6%)	4,511 (10.7%)	8,034 (19.1%)	6,483 (15.4%)
Edinburgh Pentlands	19,675 (43.0%)	4,575 (10.0%)	6,882 (13.0%)	14,813 (32.4%)
Edinburgh South	20,993 (46.8%)	7,911 (17.6%)	5,791 (12.9%)	9,541 (21.3%)
Edinburgh Central	20,125 (47.1%)	5,605 (13.1%)	6,750 (15.8%)	9,055 (21.2%)
Edinburgh West	8,948 (18.8%)	20,578 (43.2%)	4,210 (8.8%)	13,325 (28.0%)
Edinburgh North and Leith	19,209 (46.9%)	5,335 (13.0%)	8,231 (20.1%)	7,312 (17.9%)

References

Elections in Edinburgh

Edinburgh Corporation	1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973

City of Edinburgh District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992

Lothian Regional Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994

City of Edinburgh Council	1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017

General Elections	1997 2001 2005 2010 2015

Referendums	2005

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