Thread by @ForWomenScot

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 Lib Dem stronghold of North Fife.

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 @ClaireBaker_lab, one of the Labour MSPs who voted against GRR 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 MiC 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 GRR rebels who remain in the party seeking re-election. He has also not signed the Out for Indy trans pledge thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
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. @RealStephenKerr, the man whose Westminster seat he took in 2019, will be looking for revenge and we'd love to see him get it!

Regional List - Mid Scotland and Fife
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.

Conservative: 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.
Murdo Fraser
Stephen Kerr
Roz McCall

Labour: 2-3 seats.
Claire Baker
Joe Long
Fiona Sword

Liberal Democrats:
Claire McLaren
Sally Pattle
Ed Scotcher

Scottish National Party (SNP): 0 seats
John Ramsay Swinney
Shirley-Anne Somerville
Fiona Law

Reform UK: 2 seats
Helen McDade
Julie MacDougall
Rachael Wright

Greens: 1 seat
Mark Ruskell
Mags Hall
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

Clackmannanshire and Dunblane
We missed one! With many apologies:
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. We must put in a good word for Eva Comrie, not only because she's a good women, but she spotted this omission. Sorry!

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