Gordon (UK Parliament constituency)
{{Short description|Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards}}
{{Distinguish|Gordon (Scottish Parliament constituency)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}
{{Infobox UK constituency main
|name = Gordon
|parliament = uk
|map1 = Gordon
|map2 =
|map_size = 250px
|map_entity = Scotland
|map_year =
|year = 1983
|abolished = 2024
|type = County
|elects_howmany =
|previous = East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire{{cite web|title='Gordon', June 1983 up to May 1997 |url=http://electionweb.co.uk/Bp/P83272.htm |website=ElectionWeb Project |publisher=Cognitive Computing Limited |access-date=11 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312064828/http://electionweb.co.uk/Bp/P83272.htm |archive-date=12 March 2016 }}
|next = Gordon and Buchan
|electorate =
|mp =
|party =
|towns = Dyce, Huntly, Ellon, Inverurie
|region = Scotland
|county = Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City
|european = Scotland
}}
Gordon was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster), which elected one member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was first contested at the 1983 UK general election; and underwent boundary changes throughout its existence.
The constituency was represented by Colin Clark of the Scottish Conservatives, who gained the seat from former Scottish First Minister and former Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond at the 2017 snap election- which overall saw the best Conservative Party result in Scotland for 34 years; with 13 MPs returned. The SNP regained the seat in the 2019 general election with Richard Thomson serving as MP.
As part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was subject to boundary changes, losing the parts in the Aberdeen City council area, partly offset by the addition of part of the abolished constituency of Banff and Buchan. As a consequence, it was renamed Gordon and Buchan, which was first contested at the 2024 general election.[https://www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2023_review_final/bcs_2023_review_report_web_version.pdf Boundary Commission Scotland 2023 Review Report]
Boundaries
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1983–1997: Gordon District, and the City of Aberdeen District electoral divisions of East Don and West Don.
1997–2005: The Gordon District electoral divisions of East Gordon, Formartine, Garioch, Inverurie, Kintore and Newmachar, and West Gordon, the Banff and Buchan District electoral division of Lower Deveron and Upper Ythan, and the Moray District electoral division of Keith-Strathisla.
2005–2024: The Aberdeenshire Council wards of Tarves, Ythan, Ellon Town, Logie Buchan, Meldrum, Udny-Slains, Belhelvie, Insch, Chapel and Gadie, Inverurie North, Inverurie Central, Inverurie South and Port Elphinstone, Kintore and Keithhall, Newmachar and Fintray, Huntly West, Huntly East, and Strathbogie, and the Aberdeen City Council wards of Pitmedden, Bankhead/Stoneywood, Danestone, Jesmond, Oldmachar, and Bridge of Don.
New boundaries were used for the 2005 general election. Prior to that election the constituency covered a central portion of the Aberdeenshire council area and a small eastern portion of the Moray council area. As a result of the 2005 boundary changes, in accordance with the Fifth Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland,{{cite web |url=http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/5th%20report/index.htm |title=Fifth Periodical Review |website=Boundary Commission for Scotland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009160559fw_/http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/5th%20report/index.htm |archive-date=9 October 2007}} the Gordon constituency was one of five covering the Aberdeenshire council area and the Aberdeen City council area.
The Gordon constituency covered a central portion of the Aberdeenshire area and a northern portion of the Aberdeen City council area. Entirely within the Aberdeenshire council area, there is also Banff and Buchan, to the north of Gordon, and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, to the south. Entirely within the Aberdeen City council area, there is also Aberdeen North, to the south of Gordon, and Aberdeen South, further south.
The towns of Ellon, Huntly and Inverurie remain within the constituency.
Keith (within the Moray council area) was transferred to the Moray constituency, Turriff was transferred to the Banff and Buchan constituency, and Kemnay and Westhill were transferred to the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency.
The Bridge of Don and Dyce areas (within the Aberdeen City council area) were transferred to the Gordon constituency from the Aberdeen North constituency.
Constituency profile and voting patterns
=Constituency profile=
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An affluent, semi-rural constituency spanning across central Aberdeenshire and northern Aberdeen, the Gordon constituency was among the least-deprived and highest-earning seats in Scotland,{{cite web|url=http://simd.scot|title=SIMD (Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation) 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/HTMLDocs/dvc174/index.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-07-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129045048/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/HTMLDocs/dvc174/index.html |archive-date=29 November 2016 |df=dmy-all }} with a high proportion of skilled and professional workers.{{cite web|url=http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ods-web/area.html|title=Area Profiles - Census Data Explorer - Scotland's Census|last=GROS|website=www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk}}
The constituency covers the A90 and A96 corridors in Aberdeenshire north of Aberdeen, covering the towns of Huntly, Inverurie and Kintore situated along the Valleys of the River Don in the region of Garioch, and the towns of Ellon and Oldmeldrum in Formartine. The boundaries of the constituency stretch south into Aberdeen to the south-east, to cover the city's northern suburbs of Bankhead, Bridge of Don, Danestone and Dyce.
Oil, agriculture and tourism form an important part of the local economy, with most of the constituency's settlements around Aberdeen serving as commuter territory for the city, including the towns of Inverurie and Kintore and the villages of Balmedie and Newmachar, where there is rapid population growth, with many areas seeing their population double within the last decade. Various energy companies have representations in Dyce and Bridge of Don, among which are EMS Oil and GE Oil and Gas. The constituency also covers Aberdeen International Airport in Dyce, Scotland's third-busiest airport by passenger numbers. Huntly, approximately 40 miles north-west of Aberdeen, is the historic home of the Gordon Highlanders regiment and is the site of Huntly Castle, the ancestral home of the chief of Clan Gordon. Huntly is also the headquarters of Dean's bakers, who produce shortbread. Ellon, approximately 16 miles north of Aberdeen, is a coastal resort sitting on the mouth of the River Ythan. On the outskirts of the town is a brewery owned by BrewDog.
=Voting patterns=
In the UK Parliament, Gordon was traditionally a Liberal-Conservative marginal. The constituency's predecessor seats of East Aberdeenshire and West Aberdeenshire were previously represented by the Conservatives. When Gordon was first formed in 1983, it was narrowly won by Malcolm Bruce of the Liberals, with a slender majority of 850 votes. Bruce subsequently increased his majority tenfold in 1987, before seeing it cut to just 274 in 1992, in new boundaries which benefited the Conservative Party. Since the Conservatives' landslide defeat in 1997, Gordon had returned Bruce of the Liberal Democrats with an increasing strong majority until Richard Thomson of the Scottish National Party cut his majority down by nearly 4,000 votes in 2010. In the nationwide SNP landslide victory in 2015, Salmond, former First Minister of Scotland and SNP Leader, gained the seat for the SNP with a majority of 8,687 votes ahead of the Liberal Democrats; with Bruce standing down. Salmond previously represented the coterminous Gordon constituency in the Scottish Parliament from 2007 until his retirement from the Scottish Parliament in 2016.
In the Scottish Parliament, Gordon was first represented by Nora Radcliffe of the Liberal Democrats in 1999. The constituency was a three-way marginal between the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and SNP. Alex Salmond gained the constituency in 2007 with a 2,000 majority, increasing it to over 15,000 votes in 2011. More recently the Conservatives have made a strong comeback in Gordon, gaining the overlapping Aberdeenshire West constituency in 2016, and coming second behind the SNP in the overlapping constituencies of Aberdeen Donside and Aberdeenshire East.
At the 2016 European Union membership referendum, the Gordon constituency is estimated to have voted to Remain within the European Union on a margin of 55.5% Remain 44.5% Leave, an above-average Leave vote relative to the rest of Scotland.
The Scottish Conservatives took the most votes in the area at the 2017 local council elections, prompting party leader Ruth Davidson to say on a visit to Inverurie that "We won the local government election in Gordon this week, beating the SNP into second place. It means that in this seat, as in many others, it is a two-horse race between us and the [Scottish] Nationalists."{{cite web|url=http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2017/05/ruth-takes-fightback-to-gordon-constituency/|title=Ruth takes fightback to Gordon constituency - Scottish Conservatives|first=Marc -|last=icebomb.co.uk|date=6 May 2017|access-date=30 May 2017|archive-date=3 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503225546/http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2017/05/ruth-takes-fightback-to-gordon-constituency/|url-status=dead}} In response to Davidson's comments, the SNP MP for Gordon at the time, Alex Salmond said: “It’s just arrogance, for Ruth Davidson to continue the line of ‘we’re going to take this seat, and we’re going to take that seat’. Once it doesn't happen, it's very bad news for Ruth Davidson's credibility.”{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/alex-salmond-arrogant-ruth-davidson-s-bubble-has-burst-1-4464452|title=Alex Salmond: 'arrogant' Ruth Davidson's bubble has burst|website=www.scotsman.com}}
Salmond was later unseated by Conservative Colin Clark at the 2017 snap election on 8 June. The swing to the Conservatives was 20.4%, the party's largest swing in the whole of Britain. The defeat of Salmond was a bitter blow to SNP activists in the North East who characterised it to The Guardian as, “So disrespectful”, “How could local people do that to him?”{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/27/moray-fed-up-with-snp-simple-as-that-scotland-election|title=Moray: 'We are fed up with the SNP. It's as simple as that'|newspaper=The Guardian|date=27 June 2017|last1=Carrell|first1=Severin}}
However, in the 2019 election, Richard Thomson narrowly regained the seat for the SNP with a majority of 819 (1.4%), meaning the seat remains an SNP-Conservative marginal.
Members of Parliament
| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Election!!Member{{Rayment-hc|g|2|date=March 2012}} !Party | ||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Party (UK)}}" |
| 1983 |rowspan=2 | Sir Malcolm Bruce | Liberal | ||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Liberal Democrats (UK)}}" |
| 1988 | ||
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" |
|2015 | Alex Salmond | SNP |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
|2017 | Colin Clark | Conservative |
| style="color:inherit;background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" |
|2019 | Richard Thomson | SNP |
Election results
=Elections in the 2010s=
{{Election box begin||title=General election 2019: Gordon{{cite web |title=General Election 2019 |url=https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/elections/uk-parliamentary-election-2019/ |website=Aberdeenshire Council |access-date=15 November 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/constituencies/S14000037|title=Gordon parliamentary constituency - Election 2019|access-date=2019-12-15|language=en-GB}}{{cite web |title=UK Parliamentary Election: Declaration of Results: GORDON Constituency |url=https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/media/24905/declaration-of-result-gordon.pdf |date=12 December 2019 |website=Aberdeenshire Council |first=Jim |last=Savege |access-date=30 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410160636/https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/media/24905/declaration-of-result-gordon.pdf |archive-date=10 April 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8749/CBP-8749.pdf |date=28 January 2020 |title=Commons Briefing Paper 8749. General Election 2019: results and analysis |publisher=House of Commons Library |location=London |access-date=19 January 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118043715/https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8749/CBP-8749.pdf |archive-date=18 November 2021}}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Richard Thomson
|votes = 23,885
|percentage = 42.7
|change = +6.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Conservatives
|candidate = Colin Clark
|votes = 23,066
|percentage = 41.3
|change = +0.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate = James Oates
|votes = 5,913
|percentage = 10.6
|change = −1.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Labour
|candidate = Heather Herbert
|votes = 3,052
|percentage = 5.5
|change = −6.3
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 819
|percentage = 1.4
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 55,916
|percentage = 70.2
|change = +1.8
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
| winner = Scottish National Party
| loser = Scottish Conservatives
| swing = +3.2
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=General election 2017: Gordon{{cite web |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |title=Commons Briefing Paper 7979. General Election 2017: results and analysis |edition=Second |date=29 January 2019 |orig-date=7 April 2018 |publisher=House of Commons Library |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112183438/https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7979/CBP-7979.pdf |archive-date=12 November 2019}}
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Conservatives
|candidate = Colin Clark
|votes = 21,861
|percentage = 40.7
|change = +29.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Alex Salmond{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election-snp-reselects-54-mps-1-4426658|title=General Election: SNP reselects 54 MPs|website=www.scotsman.com|access-date=23 April 2017|archive-date=25 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425185140/http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election-snp-reselects-54-mps-1-4426658|url-status=dead}}
|votes = 19,254
|percentage = 35.9
|change = −11.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Labour
|votes = 6,340
|percentage = 11.8
|change = +5.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|votes = 6,230
|percentage = 11.6
|change = −21.1
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 2,607
|percentage = 4.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 53,740
|percentage = 68.4
|change = −4.9
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
| winner = Scottish Conservatives
| loser = Scottish National Party
| swing = +20.4
}}
{{Election box end}}
This was the largest swing towards the Conservatives within the United Kingdom at the 2017 general election.
{{See also|Opinion polling in United Kingdom constituencies, 2010–15#Gordon}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 2015: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 2015|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|archive-date=17 October 2015}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Alex Salmond{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30364575|title=Ex-SNP leader Alex Salmond announces he is to stand for UK Parliament|work=BBC News|date=7 December 2014}}
|votes = 27,717
|percentage = 47.7
|change = +25.5
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate = Christine Jardine
|votes = 19,030
|percentage = 32.7
|change = −3.3
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Conservatives
|candidate = Colin Clark
|votes = 6,807
|percentage = 11.7
|change = −7.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Labour
|candidate = Braden Davy
|votes = 3,441
|percentage = 5.9
|change = −14.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = UK Independence Party
|votes = 1,166
|percentage = 2.0
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 8,687
|percentage = 15.0
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 58,161
|percentage = 73.3
|change = +6.9
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Scottish National Party
|loser = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|swing = +14.4
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=General election 2010: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 2010|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726162034/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt|archive-date=26 July 2013}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate = Malcolm Bruce
|votes = 17,575
|percentage = 36.0
|change = −9.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Richard Thomson
|votes = 10,827
|percentage = 22.2
|change = +6.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Labour
|candidate = Barney Crockett
|votes = 9,811
|percentage = 20.1
|change = −0.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party= Scottish Conservatives
|candidate = Ross Thomson
|votes = 9,111
|percentage = 18.7
|change = +1.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Greens
|candidate = Sue Edwards
|votes = 752
|percentage = 1.5
|change = New
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = British National Party
|candidate = Elise Jones
|votes = 699
|percentage = 1.4
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 6,748
|percentage = 13.8
|change = −9.0
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 48,755
|percentage = 66.4
|change = +4.6
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|swing = −7.6
}}
{{Election box end}}
=Elections of the 2000s=
{{Election box begin|title=General election 2005: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 2005|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2005ob.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=18 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054249/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2005ob.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate = Malcolm Bruce
|votes = 20,008
|percentage = 45.0
|change = +6.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Iain Brotchie
|votes = 8,982
|percentage = 20.2
|change = −1.3
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Philip Atkinson
|votes = 7,842
|percentage = 17.6
|change = −1.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Joanna Strathdee
|votes = 7,098
|percentage = 16.0
|change = −3.3
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Socialist Party
|candidate = Tommy Paterson
|votes = 508
|percentage = 1.1
|change = −0.4
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 11,026
|percentage = 24.8
|change = +19.9
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 44,438
|percentage = 61.8
|change = +5.2
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|swing = +3.8
}}
{{Election box end}}
Before the 2005 general election, Scotland went through major boundary changes.
{{Election box begin|title=General election 2001: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 2001|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2001ob.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=18 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054450/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2001ob.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate = Malcolm Bruce
|votes = 15,928
|percentage = 45.5
|change = +2.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Nanette Milne
|votes = 8,049
|percentage = 23.0
|change = −3.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Rhona Kemp
|votes = 5,760
|percentage = 16.5
|change = −3.5
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Ellis Thorpe
|votes = 4,730
|percentage = 13.5
|change = +2.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Socialist Party
|candidate = John Sangster
|votes = 534
|percentage = 1.5
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 7,879
|percentage = 22.5
|change = +5.9
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 35,001
|percentage = 58.3
|change = −13.6
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
=Elections of the 1990s=
{{Election box begin|title=General election 1997: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 1997|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1997.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=18 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054424/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1997.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate = Malcolm Bruce
|votes = 17,999
|percentage = 42.6
|change = +15.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = John Porter
|votes = 11,002
|percentage = 26.0
|change = −22.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Richard Lochhead
|votes = 8,435
|percentage = 20.0
|change = +1.4
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Lindsey Kirkhill
|votes = 4,350
|percentage = 10.3
|change = +4.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Referendum Party
|candidate = Fred Pidcock
|votes = 459
|percentage = 1.1
|change = New
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 6,997
|percentage = 16.6
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 42,245
|percentage = 71.9
|change = −2.4
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|loser = Scottish Conservative Party
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=Notional general election of 1992"Media Guide to the New Parliament Constituencies", compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, 1995, p. 87}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate =
|votes = 19,596
|percentage = 48.0
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate =
|votes = 11,110
|percentage = 27.2
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate =
|votes = 7,593
|percentage = 18.6
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate =
|votes = 2,561
|percentage = 6.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 8,486
|percentage = 20.8
|change =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=General election 1992: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 1992|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1992ob.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=18 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054418/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1992ob.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|candidate = Malcolm Bruce
|votes = 22,158
|percentage = 37.4
|change = −12.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = John Porter
|votes = 21,884
|percentage = 37.0
|change = +5.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Brian Adam
|votes = 8,445
|percentage = 14.3
|change = +7.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Peter Morrell
|votes = 6,682
|percentage = 11.3
|change = −0.2
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 274
|percentage = 0.4
|change = -17.1
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 59,169
|percentage = 74.3
|change = +0.6
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Scottish Liberal Democrats
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
=Elections of the 1980s=
{{Election box begin|title=General election 1987: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 1987|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1987.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=18 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054243/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1987.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Malcolm Bruce
|votes = 26,770
|percentage = 49.4
|change = +5.6
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Peter Leckie
|votes = 17,251
|percentage = 31.9
|change = −10.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Morag Morrell
|votes = 6,228
|percentage = 11.5
|change = +3.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = George Wright
|votes = 3,876
|percentage = 7.2
|change = +1.5
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 9,519
|percentage = 17.5
|change = +15.7
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 54,125
|percentage = 73.7
|change = +3.6
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title=General election 1983: Gordon{{cite web|title=Election Data 1983|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1983.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|access-date=18 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054231/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1983.txt|archive-date=15 October 2011}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Malcolm Bruce
|votes = 20,134
|percentage = 43.8
|change = +13.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = James Cran
|votes = 19,284
|percentage = 42.0
|change = +0.2
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = George Grant
|votes = 3,899
|percentage = 8.5
|change = −5.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Kenneth Guild
|votes = 2,636
|percentage = 5.7
|change = −7.6
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 850
|percentage = 1.8
|change = N/A
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 45,953
|percentage = 70.1
|change =
}}
{{Election box new seat win
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
}}
{{Election box end}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/14433.html Gordon UK Parliament constituency] (boundaries April 2005 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
{{Constituencies in Scotland by Holding Party}}
{{Scottish Westminster constituencies}}
{{Authority control}}
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