For Women Scotland

Mid Scotland and Fife

Constituencies:

Mid Fife is a tale of two halves with a Labour/SNP split along the Fife coast and a strong Conservative presence in Perthshire. Not to forget the Liberal Democrats stronghold of North Fife.

Clackmannanshire and Dunblane

  • Keith James Brown – Scottish National Party (SNP)
  • Mike Collier – Reform UK
  • Eva Margaret Comrie – Alliance to Liberate Scotland
  • Suzanne Grahame – Labour Party
  • Sally Pattle – Liberal Democrats
  • Luca Scacchi – Independent
  • Alexander Stewart – Conservative and Unionist Party

This should be a safe hold for the SNP with the nearest challenge from Labour.

Cowdenbeath

  • David John Barratt – Scottish National Party (SNP)
  • James Stuart Calder – Liberal Democrats
  • Mark Davies – Reform UK
  • Laurie Moffat – Alliance to Liberate Scotland and Sovereignty
  • Fiona Sword – Labour Party
  • Darren Watt – Conservative and Unionist Party

Local councillor, Barratt is well placed to hold Annabelle Ewing’s old seat.

Dunfermline

  • Lauren Buchanan-Quigley – Liberal Democrats
  • Thomas Heald – Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Otto Inglis – Reform UK
  • Joe Long – Labour Party
  • Shirley-Anne Somerville – Scottish National Party (SNP)

Shirley-Anne Somerville looks set to return.

Fife North East

  • John Beare – Scottish National Party (SNP)
  • Elizabeth Carr-Ellis – Labour Party
  • William Docherty – Reform UK
  • Willie Rennie – Liberal Democrats
  • Edward Sheasby – Conservative and Unionist Party

Rennie is expected to retain his seat with a thumping majority.

Kirkcaldy

  • Claire Baker – Labour and Co-operative Party
  • Fraser John Ashmore Graham – Liberal Democrats
  • Heather Greig – Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Julie MacDougall – Reform UK
  • David Herd Torrance – Scottish National Party (SNP)

We would love to see Claire Baker, one of the Labour MSPs who voted against Gender Recognition Reform take this seat but polling suggests that Torrance will hold on.

Mid Fife and Glenrothes

  • Jenny Gilruth – Scottish National Party (SNP)
  • Sacha Haworth – Reform UK
  • Niamh Heald – Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Afifa Khanam – Labour Party
  • Ed Scotcher – Liberal Democrats

Arch Sturgeonite Gilruth looks to be safe, although More in Common sees Reform picking up support.

Perthshire North

  • Angela Bailey – Labour Party
  • Murdo Fraser – Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Claire McLaren – Liberal Democrats
  • Kenneth Morton – Reform UK
  • John Ramsay Swinney – Scottish National Party (SNP)

Look, we can but dream that Murdo Fraser unseats the First Minister!

Perthshire South and Kinross-shire

  • Amanda Clark – Liberal Democrats
  • Jim Fairlie – Scottish National Party (SNP)
  • Roz McCall – Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Helen McDade – Reform UK
  • Luke Thomson – Labour Party

Fairlie is one of the two SNP Gender Recognition Reform rebels who remain in the party to seek re-election. He has also not signed the Out for Indy trans pledge. See The Times article: SNP candidates vow to fight for ‘bodily autonomy’ of trans people

 His main challenge will come from the Conservatives.

Stirling

  • Stephen Kerr – Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Kainde Manji – Labour Party
  • Jill Reilly – Liberal Democrats
  • Alyn Edward Smith – Scottish National Party (SNP)
  • Rachael Wright  – Reform UK

“Daddy Bear” Smith is hoping to win for the SNP in Evelyn Tweed’s old seat, two years after losing the Westminster constituency of Stirling and Strathallan to Labour. Stephen Kerr, the man whose Westminster seat he took in 2019, will be looking for revenge.

Regional Lists:

List votes top up the constituency votes. Candidates from political parties are ordered, so if you vote for a party on the list, it’s useful to know who the top candidates are.

Conservatives: Both polls predict just one seat on the list, a big change of fortune for a party which held 4 regional seats in the last session. One seat will ensure the return of Fraser but would mean we lose Kerr (prev on the Central list), McCall & Alexander Stewart who is 4th on the list.

  1. Murdo Fraser
  2. Stephen Kerr
  3. Roz McCall

Labour: 2-3 seats. 

  1. Claire Baker
  2. Joe Long
  3. Fiona Sword

Liberal Democrats:

  1. Claire McLaren
  2. Sally Pattle
  3. Ed Scotcher

Scottish National Party (SNP): 0 seats

  1. John Ramsay Swinney
  2. Shirley-Anne Somerville
  3. Fiona Law

Reform UK: 2 seats

  1. Helen McDade
  2. Julie MacDougall
  3. Rachael Wright

Greens: 1 seat

  1. Mark Ruskell
  2. Mags Hall
  3. Caitlin Ripley

Other List Parties:

  • Advance UK
  • Alliance to Liberate Scotland
  • Independence for Scotland Party
  • Independent Green Voice
  • Scottish Family Party
  • Scottish Libertarian Party
  • Scottish Socialist Party
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