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Labour 17,845 ---- Tories 1,192
Rutherglen & Hamilton By-election result.
Labour 17,845
SNP 8,399
Tories 1,192
Liberal Dems 895
Green 601
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Why do you want a Labour government? I actually live in fear if they get in power as I am not a member of their client state. I've worked all my life in industry, paid my taxes, saved for a rainy day, done all the right things. They will bleed me dry to give money to their grateful groups, full time benefit claimants, illegal immigrants, public sector employees, I am none of those so I will be screwed.
In recent years this has not been a safe Labour seat at all: it's gone back and forth with the SNP since the early Labour landslide days.
If this result was repeated across Scotland Labour would gain 40 seats from the SNP: that would leave the party needing another 80 to reach 320. They don't need all to be Tory seats of couerse, tho they probably mostyl woould be.
"//In recent years this has not been a safe Labour seat at all//I didn't say that. I said until a few years [ago]...
I was replying to Tora. The significance is in the inking that Labour could win a lot of seats in Scotland.
It's like in the rest of GB though: will people vote FOR a part or AGAINST the government (either Tory or SNP). If the latter than it'll be less good for Labour but not necessarily any better for the Conservatives.
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