Constituency Profile
Constituency: |
Aberdeen Donside |
| Current MSP : | Brian Adam |
| Current Party : |  |
| Majority 2011(%) : | 26.87 |
2011 Results: |
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| Votes | % | % change from '07 | ||
 | 14790 | 55.38 | +10.57 | |
 | 7615 | 28.51 | -3.22 | |
 | 2166 | 8.11 | +0.64 | |
 | 1606 | 6.01 | -9.98 | |
Winnability |
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| Swing req for LAB gain | 13.4328% |
| LAB winability* | 41 |
| Swing req for CON gain | 23.6343% |
| CON winability* | 61 |
| Swing req for LIB gain | 24.6827% |
| LIB winability* | 53 |
| * This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party | |
Aberdeen Donside Candidate Profiles
|  Brian Adam MSP Elected as a North East Scotland regional MSP in 1999, Brian went on to win the Aberdeen North seat in 2003 and held it in the 2007 election. He has been one of the few SNP politicians to win a Labour urban seat. He is currently the party's Chief Whip. Prior to his election at the Scottish Parliament, Brian was an Aberdeen City Councillor and a principal biochemist in the NHS. |
|  Barney Crockett Barney is currently a councillor for Aberdeen City Council and was the Labour candidate for Gordon at the 2010 General Election. Before entering politics he worked as a secondary school teacher and went on to head up the Grampian Racial Equality Board. |
|  Ross Thomson Ross has been active in the Gordon Conservative Association since 2004 and has campaigned for local MSP Nanette Milne. He was also involved in the University of Aberdeen Conservative Association, holding the post of Vice-Chairman from 2005-2008. Ross has previously stood for the Conservatives in the 2010 Westminster elections in Gordon and in Coatbridge and Chryston at the 2007 Scottish elections. He attended Balmedie primary School, Bridge of Don Academy and graduated from the University of Aberdeen with First Class Honours in Politics and International Relations. He currently works as a Business Support Assistant in Financial Operations for Debenhams in Aberdeen. |
|  Millie McLeod Millie has lived in the Bridge of Don area of Aberdeen for 27 years and throughout those years has been involved with Community concerns through her commitment to the Community Council and the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Millie has worked in the Oil & Gas industry for 29 years and was an Aberdeen City Councillor for the Bridge of Don from 2003 to 2007. During which she sat as a on a number of the Council's Standing Committees and Sub-Committees. She was also a Member of the Airport Committee, the Fire Board and NESTRANS. Millie is married with a grown-up family and is a Grandmother and Great Grandmother. She enjoys listening to music and reading. She is also interested in History. |
Posted Comments
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Huntly Loon
March 29, 2011 @ 5:44 pm
In 2007 I correctly predicted that Alex Salmond would take the Gordon Holyrood seat off the Libdems, despite the strength of Malcolm Bruce's and the Libdems' hold of the Westminster constituency of the same name. The new Aberdeenshire East seat is considerably different from the Gordon seat it replaces in that it loses Libdem areas around Huntly, Insch and Kintore on the south and gains a large chunk of Salmond's old Banff & Buchan seat. Alex Salmond would on the new boundaries have taken the seat in 2007 with a notional majority of 4,500. and with 45% of the vote. As probably the highest profile candidate in Scotland and the serving First Minister, I would guess that he will hold the seat convincingly with at least 60% of the popular vote and pushing the Libdem vote and Alison McInnes down to about 20% with the Conservatives just behind on 15%, with Labour further behind. I predict Salmond will double his notional majority to 9,000 and I would not be surprised if it exceeds 10,000 .2
Mystic Smeg
April 8, 2011 @ 7:38 pm
SNP Hold.