Electoral history of Gordon Brown

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This is a summary of the electoral history of Gordon Brown, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. He was the member of parliament (MP) for Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005 and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from 2005 to 2015.

Parliamentary elections

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1979 general election, Edinburgh South

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General election 1979: Edinburgh South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Ancram 17,986 39.74 +3.82
Labour Gordon Brown 15,526 34.30 +6.12
Liberal J.P. Bryan Lovell 7,400 16.35 +2.13
SNP Robert Shirley 3,800 8.40 −13.29
Ecology Stewart M. Biggar 552 1.22 New
Majority 2,460 5.43 −2.29
Turnout 45,264 77.30 +3.12
Conservative hold Swing

1983 general election, Dunfermline East

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General election 1983: Dunfermline East[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Brown 18,515 51.5 −10.5
Liberal David Harcus 7,214 20.1
Conservative Clive Shenton 6,764 18.8 −2.8
SNP George Hunter 2,573 7.2 −6.8
Communist Alex Maxwell 864 2.4
Majority 11,301 31.4
Turnout 35,930 72.0
Labour win (new seat)

1987 general election, Dunfermline East

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General election 1987: Dunfermline East[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Brown 25,381 64.5 +13.0
Conservative Clive Shenton 5,792 14.8 −4.0
Liberal Elizabeth Harris 4,122 10.5 −9.6
SNP Alice McGarry 3,901 10.0 +2.8
Majority 19,589 49.7 +18.3
Turnout 39,196 76.6 +4.6
Labour hold Swing +8.5

1992 general election, Dunfermline East

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General election 1992: Dunfermline East[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Brown 23,692 62.4 −2.1
Conservative Mark E. Tennant 6,248 16.5 +1.7
SNP John V. Lloyd 5,746 15.1 +5.1
Liberal Democrats Teresa Martin Little 2,262 6.0 −4.5
Majority 17,444 45.9 −3.8
Turnout 37,948 75.6 −1.0
Labour hold Swing −2.4

1997 general election, Dunfermline East

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General election 1997: Dunfermline East[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Brown 24,441 66.8 +4.4
SNP John Ramage 5,690 15.6 +0.5
Conservative Iain Mitchell 3,656 10.0 −6.5
Liberal Democrats Jim Tolson 2,164 5.9 −0.1
Referendum Thomas Dunsmore 632 1.7 New
Majority 18,751 51.2 +6.3
Turnout 36,583 69.6 −7.0
Labour hold Swing +2.5

2001 general election, Dunfermline East

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General election 2001: Dunfermline East[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Brown 19,487 64.8 −2.0
SNP Johnny Mellon 4,424 14.7 −0.9
Conservative Stuart Randall 2,838 9.4 −0.6
Liberal Democrats John Mainland 2,281 7.6 +1.7
Scottish Socialist Andrew Jackson 770 2.6 New
UKIP Thomas Dunsmore 286 1.0 New
Majority 15,063 50.1 −1.1
Turnout 30,086 57.0 −12.6
Labour hold Swing -1.4

2005 general election, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

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General election 2005: Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Brown 24,278 58.1 −0.4
SNP Alan Bath 6,062 14.5 −4.1
Liberal Democrats Alex Cole-Hamilton 5,450 13.0 +3.8
Conservative Stuart Randall 4,308 10.3 −0.3
Scottish Socialist Steve West 666 1.6 −1.1
UKIP Peter Adams 516 1.2 +0.8
Scottish Senior Citizens James Parker 425 1.0
Independent Elizabeth Kwantes 47 0.1
Independent Pat Sargent 44 0.1
Majority 18,216 43.6 +3.7
Turnout 41,796 58.4
Labour win (new seat)

2010 general election, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

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General election 2010: Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath[7][8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gordon Brown 29,559 64.5 +6.4
SNP Douglas Chapman 6,550 14.3 −0.2
Liberal Democrats John Mainland 4,269 9.3 −3.7
Conservative Lindsay Paterson 4,258 9.3 −1.0
UKIP Peter Adams 760 1.7 +0.5
Independent Susan Archibald 184 0.4 New
Independent Donald MacLaren 165 0.4 New
Land Party Derek Jackson 57 0.1 New
Majority 23,009 50.2 +6.6
Turnout 45,802 62.2 +3.8
Labour hold Swing +3.3

2010 United Kingdom general election

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e • d Summary of the May 2010 House of Commons of the United Kingdom election results[9]
Political party Leader Candidates Votes
Nominated Elected Of total (%) Gained Lost Net Count Proportion
of total (%) 		Change in
proportion (%)
Conservative[table 1] David Cameron 631 306 47.1 100 3 +97 10,703,754 36.1 +3.7
Labour Gordon Brown 631 258 39.7 3 94 −91 8,609,527 29.0 −6.2
Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg 631 57 8.8 8 13 −5 6,836,824 23.0 +1.0
UKIP Lord Pearson 558 0 0 0 0 0 919,546 3.1 +0.9
BNP Nick Griffin 338 0 0 0 0 0 564,331 1.9 +1.2
SNP Alex Salmond 59 6 0.9 0 0 0 491,386 1.7 +0.1
Green Caroline Lucas 310 1 0.2 1 0 +1 265,247 0.9 −0.2
Sinn Féin Gerry Adams 17 5 0.8 0 0 0 171,942 0.6 −0.1
DUP Peter Robinson 16 8 1.2 0 1 −1 168,216 0.6 −0.3
Plaid Cymru Ieuan Wyn Jones 40 3 0.5 1 0 +1 165,394 0.6 −0.1
SDLP Margaret Ritchie 18 3 0.5 0 0 0 110,970 0.4 −0.1
UCU-NF Reg Empey 17 0 0 0 1 −1 102,361 0.3 −0.1
English Democrat Robin Tilbrook 107 0 0 0 0 0 64,826 0.2 0.2
Alliance David Ford 18 1 0.2 1 0 +1 42,762 0.1 0.0
Respect Salma Yaqoob 11 0 0 0 1 −1 33,251 0.1 −0.1
TUV Jim Allister 10 0 0 0 0 0 26,300 0.1 —
Speaker — 1 1 0.2 0 0 0 22,860 0.1 0.0
Independent – Rodney Connor — 1 0 0 0 0 0 21,300 0.1 —
Independent – Sylvia Hermon — 1 1 0.2 1 0 +1 21,181 0.1 —
Christian George Hargreaves 71 0 0 0 0 0 18,623 0.1 +0.1
Scottish Green Eleanor Scott and Patrick Harvie 20 0 0 0 0 0 16,827 0.1 0.0
Health Concern Richard Taylor 1 0 0 0 1 −1 16,150 0.1 0.0
Independent – Bob Spink — 1 0 0 0 0 0 12,174 0.0 —
TUSC Dave Nellist 37 0 0 0 0 0 12,275 0.0 —
National Front Ian Edward 17 0 0 0 0 0 10,784 0.0 0.0
Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy John Stevens 1 0 0 0 0 0 10,331 0.0 —
Monster Raving Loony Howling Laud Hope 27 0 0 0 0 0 7,510 0.0 0.0
Socialist Labour Arthur Scargill 23 0 0 0 0 0 7,196 0.0 −0.1
Liberal Rob Wheway 5 0 0 0 0 0 6,781 0.0 −0.1
Blaenau Gwent PV Dai Davies 1 0 0 0 1 −1 6,458 0.0 −0.1
CPA Alan Craig 17 0 0 0 0 0 6,276 0.0 0.0
Mebyon Kernow Dick Cole 6 0 0 0 0 0 5,379 0.0 0.0
Lincolnshire Independent Marianne Overton 3 0 0 0 0 0 5,311 0.0 —
Mansfield Independent Forum 1 0 0 0 0 0 4,339 0.0 —
Green (NI) Mark Bailey and Karly Greene 4 0 0 0 0 0 3,542 0.0 0.0
Socialist Alternative Peter Taaffe 4 0 0 0 0 0 3,298 0.0 0.0
Trust Stuart Wheeler 2 0 0 0 0 0 3,233 0.0 —
Scottish Socialist Colin Fox and Frances Curran 10 0 0 0 0 0 3,157 0.0 −0.1
People Before Profit — 1 0 0 0 0 0 2,936 0.0 —
Local Liberals People Before Politics 1 0 0 0 0 0 1,964 0.0 —
Independent – Esther Rantzen — 1 0 0 0 0 0 1,872 0.0 —
Alliance for Green Socialism Mike Davies 6 0 0 0 0 0 1,581 0.0 0.0
SDP Peter Johnson 2 0 0 0 0 0 1,551 0.0 —
Pirate Andrew Robinson 9 0 0 0 0 0 1,348 0.0 —
Common Sense Party Howard Thomas 2 0 0 0 0 0 1,173 0.0 0.0
Staffordshire Independent Group 1 0 0 0 0 0 1,208 0.0 0.0
Tendring First 1 0 0 0 0 0 1,078 0.0 0.0
Solihull and Meriden Residents Association 2 0 0 0 0 0 977 0.0 0.0
Communist Robert Griffiths 6 0 0 0 0 0 947 0.0 0.0
Democratic Labour Brian Powell 1 0 0 0 0 0 842 0.0 0.0
English Independence Party 1 0 0 0 0 0 803 0.0 0.0
Democratic Nationalist Party 2 0 0 0 0 0 753 0.0 —
Save King George Hospital 1 0 0 0 0 0 746 0.0 0.0
Workers Revolutionary Sheila Torrance 7 0 0 0 0 0 738 0.0 0.0
Peace John Morris 3 0 0 0 0 0 737 0.0 0.0
Animal Protection — 4 0 0 0 0 0 675 0.0 0.0
Christian Movement for Great Britain 2 0 0 0 0 0 598 0.0 0.0
New Millennium Bean Party Captain Beany 1 0 0 0 0 0 558 0.0 0.0
Total 3,720 650 100 115 115 0 29,687,604 Turnout: 65.1
  1. ^ This figure excludes John Bercow (Buckingham)

References

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  1. ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  4. ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  5. ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  8. ^ Fife Council, Elections (7 July 2014). "Elections – The Scottish Independence Referendum Results 2014". www.fifedirect.org.uk.
  9. ^ "BBC Election 2010 Results". Retrieved 27 March 2017.
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