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Glasgow Anniesland By-election, 2000Rt. Hon. Donald Dewar, a leading figure in Scottish Labour politics, had in 1999 been elected to the Scottish Parliament where he had become First Minister of the Scottish Executive, but he retained his seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom intending to stand down at the next general election. However, Dewar died on September 2, 2000 from the effects of a fall outside his official residence. The fall would not have been fatal had he not been on warfarin after suffering a heart attack earlier that year. This created a by-election for his seat of Glasgow, Anniesland for both Parliaments. Both elections were held on the same day, and polling day was set for November 23. John Robertson had already been chosen to fight the seat for Labour at the general election and therefore stood at the byelection. The Labour vote declined, but with the main benfiicary being the fringe Scottish Socialist Party rather than the challenging Scottish National Party, the seat was comfortably held. Results Westminster result The turnout was 38.1%. Candidate> | b>Party | Votes | Share | Change | | a href="/encyclopedia/John-Robertson-(UK-politician)" title="John Robertson (UK politician)">John Robertson | Labour | align=right|10,359 | align=right|51.7% | align=right|-10.1% | | rant Thoms | Scottish National Party | align=right|4,202 | align=right|21.0% | align=right|+3.9% | | orothy Luckhurst | Conservative | align=right|2,188 | align=right|10.9% | align=right|-0.6% | | hris McGinty | Liberal Democrat | align=right|1,630 | align=right|8.1% | align=right|+0.9% | | harlie McCarthy | Scottish Socialist Party | align=right|1,441 | align=right|7.2% | align=right|+6.5% | | illiam Lyden | Independent | align=right|212 | align=right|1.1% | General Election result, 1997 Candidate> | b>Party | Votes | Share | | a href="/encyclopedia/Donald-Dewar" title="Donald Dewar">Donald Dewar | (Lab) | align=right|20,951 | align=right|61.8% | | a href="/encyclopedia/William-L.-Wilson-(Scottish-Nationalist)" title="William L. Wilson (Scottish Nationalist)">Bill Wilson | (SNP) | align=right|5,797 | align=right|17.1% | | obert Brocklehurst | (C) | align=right|3,881 | align=right|11.5% | | hristopher McGinty | (L Dem) | align=right|2,453 | align=right|7.2% | | khtar Majid | (PLA) | align=right|374 | align=right|1.1% | | ill Bonnar | (SSA) | align=right|229 | align=right|0.7% | | lan Milligan | (UKIP) | align=right|86 | align=right|0.3% | | illian McKay | (RP) | align=right|84 | align=right|0.2% | | homas Pringle | (NLP) | align=right|24 | align=right|0.1% | Scottish Parliament result Candidate> | b>Party | Votes | Share | | a href="/encyclopedia/Bill-Butler" title="Bill Butler">Bill Butler | Labour | align=right|9,838 | align=right|48.7% | | om Chalmers | Scottish National Party | align=right|4,462 | align=right|22.1% | | ate Pickering | Conservative | align=right|2,138 | align=right|10.6% | | a href="/encyclopedia/Rosie-Kane" title="Rosie Kane">Rosie Kane | Scottish Socialist Party | align=right|1,429 | align=right|7.1% | | udith Fryer | Liberal Democrat | align=right|1,384 | align=right|6.9% | | listair Whitelaw | Scottish Green Party | align=right|662 | align=right|3.3% | | urdo Ritchie | Socialist Labour | align=right|298 | align=right|1.5% | Scottish Parliament Election result, 1999 Candidate> | b>Party | Votes | Share | | a href="/encyclopedia/Donald-Dewar" title="Donald Dewar">Donald Dewar | (Lab) | align=right|16,749 | align=right|61.8% | | aukab Stewart | (SNP) | align=right|5,756 | align=right|20.2% | | a href="/encyclopedia/Bill-Aitken" title="Bill Aitken">Bill Aitken | (C) | align=right|3,032 | align=right|10.7% | | ain Brown | (L Dem) | align=right|1,804 | align=right|6.3% | | nn Lynch | (SSP) | align=right|1,000 | align=right|3.5% | | lan Milligan | (UKIP) | align=right|86 | align=right|0.3% | | dward Boyd | (SLP) | align=right|139 | align=right|0.5% | See Also
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