Perth
Scottish National Party hold

Perhaps the most vulnerable of the SNP's six existing seats, all won originally from the Conservatives, Perth should nevertheless be held unless the Tories recover not only from their dire 1997 showing, but also from their standing at the time of the 1999 Edinburgh Parliament elections, when Roseanna Cunningham effectively transferred her chief basis of representation with a majority of 2,000.

With the departure of the abrasive Anglophobic republican Roseanna Cunningham for the Edinburgh Parliament, the SNP have picked a famous name to defend this seat: Annabelle Ewing, daughter of Winnie, and near repeater of her mother's historic by-election win at Hamilton in 1967, when she ran Labour perilously close in the 1999 Hamilton South by-election. A solicitor, like her mother, she was born in 1960, attended Craigholme School, Glasgow and Glasgow University, and has endured a life immersed in Scottish Nationalism, and emerged with mother, brother (Fergus) and sister-in-law (Margaret) as part of a political dynasty. She will be the only member of it at Westminster, if she defends this seat against the efforts of the Conservatives' Elizabeth Smith.

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   Thriving Wealthy Achievers, Suburban Areas 16.86% 14.99% 112.45 Affluent Greys, Rural Communities 3.33% 2.13% 156.72 Prosperous Pensioners, Retirement Areas 4.51% 2.49% 181.34 Expanding Affluent Executives, Family Areas 3.15% 4.43% 71.21 Well-Off Workers, Family Areas 6.18% 7.27% 84.93 Rising Affluent Urbanites, Town & City Areas 2.17% 2.56% 84.68 Prosperous Professionals, Metropolitan Areas 0.22% 2.04% 11.00 Better-Off Executives, Inner City Areas 7.26% 3.94% 183.98 Settling Comfortable Middle Agers, Mature Home Owning Areas 11.55% 13.04% 88.56 Skilled Workers, Home Owning Areas 3.77% 12.70% 29.69 Aspiring New Home Owners, Mature Communities 8.03% 8.14% 98.60 White Collar Workers, Better-Off Multi Ethnic Areas 3.83% 4.02% 95.17 Striving Older People, Less Prosperous Areas 4.24% 3.19% 133.23 Council Estate Residents, Better-Off Homes 15.37% 11.31% 135.93 Council Estate Residents, High Unemployment 5.18% 3.06% 169.23 Council Estate Residents, Greatest Hardship 4.34% 2.52% 172.46 People in Multi-Ethnic, Low-Income Areas 0.00% 2.10% 0.00 Unclassified Unclassified 0.00% 0.06% 0.00

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   £0-5K 8.20% 9.41% 87.08 £5-10K 16.93% 16.63% 101.76 £10-15K 17.56% 16.58% 105.91 £15-20K 14.36% 13.58% 105.70 £20-25K 10.83% 10.39% 104.19 £25-30K 7.97% 7.77% 102.48 £30-35K 5.84% 5.79% 100.84 £35-40K 4.30% 4.33% 99.30 £40-45K 3.19% 3.27% 97.82 £45-50K 2.39% 2.48% 96.36 £50-55K 1.81% 1.90% 94.90 £55-60K 1.38% 1.47% 93.45 £60-65K 1.06% 1.15% 91.99 £65-70K 0.82% 0.91% 90.54 £70-75K 0.64% 0.72% 89.10 £75-80K 0.50% 0.57% 87.68 £80-85K 0.40% 0.46% 86.29 £85-90K 0.32% 0.37% 84.93 £90-95K 0.26% 0.31% 83.61 £95-100K 0.21% 0.25% 82.32 £100K + 1.01% 1.34% 74.84