Last time in December 2019, Joanna Cherry increased her vote share to win the seat for the second time in a row.
Like many of her SNP colleagues, Ms Cherry became the constituency’s MP in the SNP landslide of 2015 and retained her seat in 2019. In 20019, Ms. Cherry had 24,830 votes which was nearly half of the constituency’s vote share. This represented a 12% increase on the vote share since 2017.
In second place, procuring approximately half the number of the SNP’s votes, was Callum Laidlaw of the Scottish Conservatives who was a councillor in Portobello at the time. Along with winning over 12,848 voters, the Tory candidate procured nearly a quarter of the constituency’s vote share.
Also in the race was the third-place Scottish Labour candidate Sophie Cook, with 7,478 votes – just over 14% of the overall vote share, while the Scottish Liberal Democrats’ Tom Inglis had 4,971votes which equated to less than 10% of the vote share.
The remainder of the candidates did not accrue enough votes to prove themselves competitive. The Scottish Greens’ Ben Parker who is now a councillor had 1,265 votes, while the Brexit Party achieved 625 votes with candidate David Craig Ballantine. In last place Mev Brown of the Social Democratic Party Scotland had 114 votes. The three candidates together procured less than 5% of the vote share.
The details of the 2019 result are below.
