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UK's ruling Labour keeps seat in Scottish fiefdom
Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:55pm EST
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GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain's ruling Labour Party enjoyed a comprehensive win on Friday in a vote for a parliamentary seat in one of its Scottish strongholds, probably the last such test of public opinion before a general election.
Labour candidate Willie Bain polled almost three times as many votes in Glasgow North East as second placed candidate David Kerr from the pro-independence Scottish National Party, maintaining Labour's grip on a seat it has held for 74 years.
The win, although widely predicted, gives some welcome respite for Prime Minister Gordon Brown who must call an election by next June which the opposition center-right Conservatives are expected to win.
Center-left Labour, in power since 1997, has seen its support suffer during a deep and enduring recession and with a rising death toll among British troops in Afghanistan.
Bain, 36, sought to play up the vote as a springboard for a Labour revival across Britain. Labour trails the Conservatives by upwards of 10 points in polls.
"The message for the general election is clear -- game on," Bain told cheering supporters.
"They (the voters) backed Gordon Brown and his efforts to secure economy recovery. It was a resounding "No" to (Conservative leader) David Cameron."
Analysts caution against reading too much into one vote ahead of the general election, but Labour needs to maintain its strong position in Scotland if it is to have any chance of clinging on to power against the odds or limiting the Conservative majority.
Scotland elects 59 members to the 646-seat British parliament -- and 39 of them are from Labour. The Conservatives return just one member of parliament from Scotland.
LOW TURNOUT
The election was caused by the departure of parliament speaker Michael Martin after criticism of how he handled an expenses scandal earlier this year.
Only one in three of the eligible voters cast their ballots -- a possible sign of dissatisfaction with the political class.
The Conservatives finished in a distant third place -- just ahead of the anti-immigration British National Party.
Labour's Bain captured around 60 percent of the votes.
Martin had won more than half of the vote in the 2005 general election when the main opposition parties followed convention by not standing against the speaker, parliament's highest official. Continued...
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