Constituency Profile
Constituency: |
Aberdeen Central |
| Current MSP : | Lewis Macdonald |
| Current Party : |  |
| Majority 2007(%) : | 1.81 |
2007 Results: |
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| Candidate | Votes | % | % change from '03 | |
 | Lewis Macdonald | 7232 | 34.24 | +1.64 |
 | Karen Shirron | 6850 | 32.43 | +5.75 |
 | John Stewart | 4693 | 22.22 | -0.41 |
 | Andrew Jones | 2345 | 11.1 | -1.38 |
Winnability |
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| Swing req for SNP gain | 0.9044% |
| SNP winability* | 1 |
| Swing req for LIB gain | 6.0109% |
| LIB winability* | 6 |
| Swing req for CON gain | 11.5696% |
| CON winability* | 21 |
| * This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party | |
Aberdeen Central Candidate Profiles
|  Lewis Macdonald MSP Following his election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, Macdonald was convener of the Holyrood Progress Group before being appointed as a Deputy Minister in March 2001. His responsibilities as a Minister have included transport, planning, enterprise, energy, lifelong learning, environment and rural development, taking up his post as Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care in 2005. Previously Parliamentary Researcher for Frank Doran, he was also Shadow Cabinet Adviser to Tom Clarke, the MP for Monklands West. |
|  Karen Shirron Karen joined the SNP in 1992 and has held various office bearer positions at both branch and Constituency level. She was elected to Aberdeen City Council in 1999 beating the sitting Labour councillor by 7 votes. She was re-elected in 2003 with an increased majority of 336 and is currently deputy leader of the SNP council group. Karen also works for Brian Adam SNP MSP for Aberdeen North as a parliamentary assistant. |
|  John Stewart John was elected to Aberdeen City Council in 2003, overtaking Labour and the SNP to win the Berryden ward from third place. John is deputy leader of the Council's ruling Liberal Democrat group. He is Vice Convener of the Education and Leisure Committee and speaks for the council on sport, culture and the arts. John works as a part-time office manager and has twice been a successful agent for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP Sir Robert Smith. He is a member of the University of Aberdeen court. |
|  Andrew Jones Andrew Jones is the Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Broadcasting at the Robert Gordon University. He was, until last year, Head of North for BBC Scotland with responsibility for the production centres in Aberdeen, Inverness, Kirkwall and Lerwick. He is a member of numerous committees including his local School Board, Scouting Association and Community Council. This is his first election campaign. |
Posted Comments
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Calum W
May 19, 2010 @ 9:36 pm
It depends how the Lib Dem vote breaks - if it goes mostly to the SNP they have a real chance, if not I suspect a fairly straightforward Labour hold.