BBC NEWS | VOTE 2003


CANDIDATE	PARTY	VOTES	%	+/-%
Des McNulty	LAB	10585	39.9	-5.4
Jim Yuill	SNP	6051	22.8	-8.4
Rod Ackland	LD	3224	12.2	-0.3
Mary Leishman	CON	2885	10.9	-0.2
Dawn Brennan	SSP	1902	7.2	+7.2
Daniel McCafferty	IND	1867	7.0	+7.0

	MAJORITY	4534	17.1
	TURNOUT	26514	51.7


ELECTORATE	51327

DESCRIPTION: Clydebank & Milngavie

Clydebank is one of the most famous names associated with shipbuilding, but has become synonymous with the seemingly terminal decline of the industry. The industrial base in the region now has diversified, and although engineering remains, new hi-tech and service industries have become established thanks largely to Clydebank having one of the first of Britain's enterprise zones. Milngavie, on the other hand, is very different. It is best described as leafy, middle-class suburbia, and has become a desirable residential area for Glasgow commuters. It has a little light industry, but few of the council estates that typify residential parts of Clydebank.

This has been a Labour seat since its creation in February 1974. The sitting MP and former Northern Ireland Office Minister Tony Worthington commands a majority of 10,724 over the SNP. The Labour MSP elected in 1999 was Des McNulty, who became social justice minister. His majority was 4,710, less than half of that of his Westminster counterpart. This is the sort of central belt, predominantly post-industrial seat in which the SNP hopes to make a breakthrough at this election.

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