Constituency Profile
Constituency: |
East Kilbride |
| Current MSP : | Andy Kerr |
| Current Party : |  |
| Majority 2007(%) : | 5.49 |
2007 Results: |
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| Candidate | Votes | % | % change from '03 | |
 | Andy Kerr | 15334 | 42.71 | +2.15 |
 | Linda Fabiani | 13362 | 37.22 | +12.15 |
 | Graham Simpson | 4115 | 11.46 | +0.36 |
 | Dave Clark | 3092 | 8.61 | +2.21 |
Winnability |
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| Swing req for SNP gain | 2.7463% |
| SNP winability* | 7 |
| Swing req for CON gain | 15.6240% |
| CON winability* | 39 |
| Swing req for LIB gain | 17.0487% |
| LIB winability* | 34 |
| * This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party | |
East Kilbride Candidate Profiles
|  Andy Kerr MSP Now the Minister for Health and Community Care, Andy Kerr was previously Convener of the Transport and Environment Committee and Minister for Finance and Public Services. From 1998 to 1999, Kerr was special adviser to then Glasgow council leader, Frank McAveety (now also MSP) and helped to turn around the troubled fortunes of the council. Prior to becoming a MSP, Kerr was also a senior officer in Glasgow City Council. |
|  Linda Fabiani Linda Fabiani is a Member of the Communities Committee, the Standards Committee and Substitute Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee. Having campaigned on a range of social justice issues, including housing and public services, Ms. Fabiani was part of the steering group which brought fair trade status to her home town of Strathaven. She is particularly interested in Housing and Social Policy, and having lived and worked in both urban and rural areas, has a keen interest in issues of Land Reform and Use |
|  Graham Simpson Graham, 43, lives in the constituency with his wife and two children. He's a journalist on a national newspaper. As a teenager he joined the Young Conservatives and got the political bug then. He left to carve out a career and re-joined the party in Scotland a few years ago. Graham was born in Aberdeen. He attended secondary school in Carlisle, where he still has family. He was responsible for the Scottish Conservatives' policy of scrapping the double jeopardy law north of the border, a view which now has cross-party support. |
|  Dave Clark _ |
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