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Please note: links re constituencies should always include a disambiguator, eg (UK Parliament constituency) and (Scottish Parliament constituency), even if this means linking via a redirect. Constituency names can be very ambiguous, and links without a disambiguator are very unreliable. Laurel Bush11:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)>[reply]
The claim "although Edinburgh was a Conservative stronghold in the 1970s and 1980s" is rather questionable. In all four elections in the 1970s the Conservative did win 4 of the 7 Edinburgh seats, but this hardly makes the city a stronghold. Indeed in both the October 1974 election and the 1979 electionEdinburgh Pentlands was seen as a marginal with Labour having high hopes of gaining it (indeed the BBC's election night coverage predicted Pentlands would well fall to Labour given the result in Cathcart, although admittedly in February 1974 the Conservatives cam close to taken Edinburgh Central from Labour. In 1983 election the Conservatives did win 4 of the now 6 seats following boundary changes, but almost lost Edinburgh West but in 1987 election two of these were gained by Labour and the remaing Conservative seats (West and Pentlands) could no longer be described as safe. Equally be the 1970s Labour had gained control of Edinburgh Council for the first time and controlled local government in the city for much of of the 1980s Thus the idea the Edinburgh was a Conservative strong hold by this point is highly questionable. Dunarc (talk) 16:31, 4 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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