The shadow Scotland Secretary, Michael Forsyth was re-elected in Stirling. The percentage votes for each party were (1997 general election):
Michael Forsyth (Conservative): 35.5 (40.3)
Labour: 29.2 (33.0)
SNP: 19.7 (12.8)
Liberal: 14.5 (13.9)
Green: 1.1 (n/a)
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Conservative majority: 6.3 (7.3)
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The Conservatives also held Faversham, Fife East, and Portsmouth North. Labour were back in Leeds Central, but their majority was down from 33.9% over Conservative to 26.7% over Liberal. The percentage votes were:
Labour: 53.0 (56.1)
Liberal: 26.3 (21.4)
Conservative: 20.6 (22.2).
In Motherwell North and Motherwell South, the Labour majorities over SNP fell from 35.7% to 30.3%, and from 29.3% to 24.4%.
The Liberals kept Birmingham Yardley, Hazel Grove, and Portsmouth South, all with increased majorities. The Conservatives held Gloucestershire South, Kensington, Renfrewshire East, and Wirral South. In Renfrewshire East their majority over Liberal was up from 12.6 % to 14.6%. In Wirral South it was down over Labour from 19.7% to 7.6%.
The first Labour gain from Conservative was Bolton North East, by a majority of 1.4%. The previous Conservative majority was 3.5%, The percentage votes were:
Labour: 40.4 (37.6)
Conservative: 39.0 (41.1)
Liberal: 19.8 (21.3
Green: 0.8 (n/a).
However in Manchester Blackley the Labour majority over Liberal was down from 15.4% to 9.6%. Chris Mullin, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Housing and Local Government, was back in Newcastle upon Tyne Central. The percentage votes were:
Chris Mullin (Labour): 41.1 (45.2)
Liberal: 30.7 (25.7)
Conservative: 28.2 (29.1)
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Labour majority: 10.4 (16.1)
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In this timeline Mullin was a journalist and reported from Vietnam, and wrote the novel
A Very British Coup, and his widely acclaimed political diaries, as in OTL. He was elected Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central in the June 1986 general election. In OTL he was elected for Sunderland South in 1987. He was on the left wing of the Labour Party. Here is his entry in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Mullin_(politician).