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John Mason took the seat in the British Parliament by only 365 votes, the Glasgow Daily Record reported. But that slim majority represented a swing of 22 percent in the vote from the last general election, when David Marshall held the seat for Labor with a majority of 13,507, making it the third-safest for Labor in Scotland.

Marshall resigned last month for health reasons. The Labor candidate, Margaret Curran, is a member of the Scottish Parliament.

Recent by-elections have been bad news for Brown. The Labor Party lost a district, Crew & Nantwich, which had been held by the party since it was created. Labor did not expect to win the seat given up by Conservative Boris Johnson when he was elected mayor of London, but the party did even worse than expected, coming in fifth behind the Greens and British National Party.

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