United Kingdom general election, 2001 (Edinburgh)

United Kingdom general election, 2001
7 June 2001 (2001-06-07)
All 6 Edinburgh seats to the House of Commons
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Tony Blair Charles Kennedy William Hague
Party Labour Liberal Democrat Conservative
Leader since 21 July 1994 9 August 1999 19 June 1997
Last election 5 Seats 1 Seats 0 Seats
Seats before 5 1 0
Seats won 5 1 0
Seat change Steady Steady Steady
Popular vote 70,593 67,593 43,296
Percentage 33.0% 31.6% 19.3%
  Fourth party
 
Leader John Swinney
Party SNP
Leader since 26 September 2000
Last election 0 Seats
Seats before 0
Seats won 0
Seat change Steady
Popular vote 22,517
Percentage 10.5%
Prime Minister before election

Tony Blair
Labour

 Subsequent Prime Minister

Tony Blair
Labour

These are the results of the United Kingdom general election, 2001 in the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The 2001 General Election was held on 7 June 2001 and five constituencies returned Labour Party MPs, with one returning a Liberal Democrat MP.

For the overall results in Scotland see 2001 United Kingdom general election results in Scotland.

Overall result

Party MPs +/- Seats Contested Votes % +/- %
Labour Party 5 Steady 6 88,488 40.7
Liberal Democrats 1 Steady 6 48,889 22.5
Conservative Party 0 Steady 6 43,296 19.9
Scottish National Party 0 Steady 6 28,018 12.9
Scottish Socialist 0 Steady 6 6,255 2.9
Scottish Green 0 Steady 1 1,809
UKIP 0 Steady 1 205
Legalise Cannabis 0 Steady 1 535
Socialist Labour 0 Steady 1 259
Total 6 Steady 217,654 100.0

Results in Full

Constituency Labour Party (UK) Liberal Democrats Scottish National Party Conservative Party (UK)
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 18,124 (52.6%) 4,981 (14.5%) 5,956 (17.3%) 3,906 (11.3%)
Edinburgh Pentlands 15,797 (40.6%) 4,210 (10.8%) 4,210 (10.8%) 14,055 (36.1%)
Edinburgh South 15,671 (42.2%) 10,172 (27.4%) 3,683 (9.9%) 6,172 (16.6%)
Edinburgh Central 14,495 (42.1%) 6,353 (18.5%) 4,832 (14.1%) 5,643 (16.4%)
Edinburgh West 9,130 (23.1%) 16,719 (42.4%) 4,047 (10.3%) 8,894 (22.5%)
Edinburgh North and Leith 15,271 (45.9%) 6,454 (19.4%) 5,290 (15.9%) 4,626 (13.9%)

References

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