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                   Glasgow Hillhead


  DATE:       25th March 1982
 CAUSE:     Death of Sir Thomas Galbraith on 2nd January 1982.

Roy Harris Jenkins

SDP-Liberal Alliance

10,106

Gerald Malone

Conservative

8,068

David Wiseman

Labour

7,846

George Leslie

Scottish National Party

3,416

John Glass

Protestant against Papal Visit

388

Roy Harold Jenkins

Social Democratic Party

282

Nicolette Carlaw Ecology Party 178
William Boaks Democratic Monarchist 5

Majority 2,038

SDP-Liberal Alliance gain from Conservative
 
Roy Harold Jenkins stood for the SDP, founded by Donald Kean in Manchester in July 1979. He had changed his name by deed poll from Douglas Parkin in order to confuse electors intending to vote for Roy Harris Jenkins.
    
Boaks stood as 'Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident'. 
His 5 votes was the lowest number of votes recorded in a universal suffrage election in the UK.