EAST RENFREWSHIRE

This is the seat of Labour minister Jim Murphy and will be contested by the BNPs lead representative in Scotland Gary Raikes. The Scottish BNP plan to contest all the headline seats. The seat was formally known as eastwood until 2005.

CURRENT LIST OF CANDIDATES
SNP Gordon Archer
Conservative Richard Cook
Labour Jim Murphy
BNP Gary Raikes


PREVIOUS RESULTS
General Election 2005:
Labour Jim Murphy 20,815 43.9% -3.7
Conservative Richard Cook 14,158 29.9% +1.2
Liberal Democrat Gordon Macdonald 8,659 18.3% +5.4
SNP Osama Bhutta 3,245 6.8% -1.8
Scottish Socialist Ian Henderson 528 1.1% -0.6
Majority 6,657 14.0%
Turnout 47,405 72.1 +2.3

RESULT FROM LAST JUNES EUROPEAN ELECTIONS FOR THIS SEAT

British National Party 441
Christian Party “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship” 404
Conservative Party 6,872
Jury Team 140
Liberal Democrats 2,136
No2EU:Yes to Democracy 131
Scottish Green Party 1,565
Scottish National Party 5,475
Scottish Socialist Party 121
Socialist Labour Party 301
The Labour Party 5,000
United Kingdom Independence Party 1,201
Duncan Robertson 243

It is going to be a hard sell for Gary and the BNP team, but they have the benefit of having beaten all the other minor parties last time around. But as this result shows this could easily be one of many Labour ministers to lose their seat as Labour came third last year in the european elections.