Edinburgh North & Leith LAB Hold

Scottish Parliament election

constituency

	Edinburgh North & Leith	LAB Hold

	CANDIDATE	PARTY	VOTES	%	+/-%
	Malcolm Chisholm	LAB	10979	37.7	-9.3
	Anne Dana	SNP	5565	20.5	-5.4
	Ian Mowat	CON	4821	16.5	+2.8
	Sebastian Tombs	LD	4785	16.4	+5.4
	Bill Scott	SSP	2584	8.9	+6.4
		MAJORITY	5014	17.2
		TURNOUT	29134	47.5

ELECTORATE	60501

Top-up region: Lothian

DESCRIPTION: Edinburgh North & Leith

The seat covers an area north from the New Town, an elegant Georgian district in fine neo-classical style, to Leith, Edinburgh's historic port and centre for the city's engineering, fishing and whisky industries. Leith was once an unashamedly working-class area marked by brooding tenements, but today some bright redevelopments have brought it yuppified housing and arguably the best concentration of bars and restaurants in the city. But not all has been transformed and a number of council estates remain.

Malcolm Chisholm was first elected for Edinburgh North & Leith in 1992. This seat has been described as a kind of east coast Govan, but it should be a much more straightforward campaign for Labour here. Mr Chisholm won the Holyrood seat in 1999 with a majority of 7,736 over the SNP. He was promoted to health minister in November 2001 in Jack McConnell’s big reshuffle.

PREVIOUS RESULTS

	1999 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTION		LAB WIN
	PARTY	VOTES	%
	LAB	17203	46.9
	SNP	9467	25.8
	CON	5030	13.7
	LD	4039	11
	SSP	907	2.5

	2001 GENERAL ELECTION		LAB WIN
	PARTY	VOTES	%
	LAB	15271	45.9
	LD	6454	19.4
	SNP	5290	15.9
	CON	4626	13.9
	SSP	1334	4
	SLP	259	0.8