Constituency Profile
Constituency: |
Dumbarton |
| Current MSP : | Jackie Baillie |
| Current Party : |  |
| Majority 2007(%) : | 5.36 |
2007 Results: |
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| Candidate | Votes | % | % change from '03 | |
 | Jackie Baillie | 11635 | 38.71 | -3.46 |
 | Graeme McCormick | 10024 | 33.35 | +14.12 |
 | Brian Pope | 4701 | 15.64 | +1.14 |
 | Alex Mackie | 3385 | 11.26 | -4.2 |
Winnability |
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| Swing req for SNP gain | 2.6802% |
| SNP winability* | 6 |
| Swing req for CON gain | 11.5359% |
| CON winability* | 20 |
| Swing req for LIB gain | 13.7253% |
| LIB winability* | 19 |
| * This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party | |
Dumbarton Candidate Profiles
|  Jackie Baillie MSP Convener of the Justice 2 Sub-Committee and member of the Public Petitions Committee, Ms Baillie was one of 6 abstainers in the March 2004 vote on council voting reform. She was Chair of the Scottish Labour Party from 1997-98 and was appointed deputy minister for social inclusion, equality and the voluntary sector after 1999 election. |
|  Graeme McCormick Graeme McCormick was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Edinburgh University. He is a qualified solicitor and the founder and senior partner of Conveyancing Direct. Graeme joined the SNP in 1992 and was the Press Officer for Bearsden Branch. He is married with two daughters. |
|  Brian Pope Brian Pope currently works as a civil engineer for an international firm of consulting engineers in Glasgow. In 2001 he was elected to the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers and represented over 10,000 civil engineers in the UK, holding the post until November 2004. |
|  Alex Mackie Alex is currently the Councillor for Giffnock North on East Renfrewshire Council. In the 2003 Scottish Parliament elections he stood in East Kilbride, Renfrewshire West for Westminister in 2001, Motherwell and Wishaw in 1997. |
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