By Bill Heaney
Provost Douglas McAllister, pictured right, has been elected as the new MP for West Dunbartonshire.
He polled 19,312 votes to take the newly extended Westminster seat from Martin Docherty Hughes, of the Scottish National Party (SNP) who received 13,302 votes and was 6,000 votes adrift of the winning total.
Details of the election of member to serve in the parliament for the West Dunbartonshire County constituency were announced by Returning Officer Peter Hessett, the Council’s chief executive.
The total number of ballot papers counted in the election was 39,707 and the turnout was 57.5%.
The total number of votes cast for each candidate the constituency, which now includes Scotstoun and Garscadden, was as follows:
| Outcome | No of votes |
|---|---|
| Paula Baker, Scottish Greens | 1,496 |
| Maurice Corry, Scottish Conservative and Unionist | 1,474 |
| Martin Docherty-Hughes, Scottish National Party (SNP) | 13,302 |
| Paul Donald Kennedy, Scottish Liberal Democrats | 839 |
| Douglas McAllister, Scottish Labour Party | 19,312 |
| Andrew Joseph Muir, Scottish Family Party | 318 |
| David Smith, Reform UK | 2,770 |
| Kelly Wilson, Sovereignty | 73 |
| Total Number of Rejected Ballot Papers | 123 |
Mr Hessett said: “I declare that the candidate elected to serve as the Member of Parliament for the West Dunbartonshire County Constituency is Douglas McAllister.”
Unfortunately, the Council’s own website got it wrong when it came to posting the result which it said was for 2019 and not 2024.
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Re-elected for this constituency which includes Cardross, Helensburgh, Rhu and the Rosneath Peninsula was Brendan O’Hara – SNP, pictured right.
Well the SNP most certainly got the proverbial humping. No messing, the electorates oronouncement is clear.
Utterly out of touch with ordinary people in policies and delivery and now they are gone.
Good luck to Douglas McAllister. Scottish Labour will struggle. The UK Labour will struggle.Brexit is crippling the the econony, GDP is tanking, our export are tanking, sanctions are crippling too, the war effort is draining funds that could and, should be spent on domestic services.
Well Labour who took us out of the EU with the Tories, who are commited to the war in Ukraine make it better.
We’ve a lot to look forward to and let’s hope they deliver, or like Tony Blair will they take us to war.