Constituency Profile
Constituency: |
Eastwood |
| Current MSP : | Kenneth Macintosh |
| Current Party : |  |
| Majority 2007(%) : | 2.11 |
2007 Results: |
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| Candidate | Votes | % | % change from '03 | |
 | Kenneth Macintosh | 15077 | 35.76 | -0.1 |
 | Jackson Carlaw | 14186 | 33.64 | +7.3 |
 | Stewart Maxwell | 7972 | 18.91 | +6.73 |
 | Gordon MacDonald | 3603 | 8.55 | -4.45 |
Winnability |
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| Swing req for CON gain | 1.0566% |
| CON winability* | 1 |
| Swing req for SNP gain | 8.4252% |
| SNP winability* | 36 |
| Swing req for LIB gain | 13.6061% |
| LIB winability* | 18 |
| * This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party | |
Eastwood Candidate Profiles
|  Kenneth Macintosh MSP As well as serving on the Parliament's Education Committee, Mr Macintosh co-chairs the Parliament's Cross Party Group on Cancer and is a member of several other Parliamentary Groups. Though never having gained a ministerial position, Mr. Macintosh was Cathy Jamieson's aide in 2002- a position he later resigned from after constituency pressure required him to vote against the Executive regarding Glasgow hospital reorganisation. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament, Mr. Macintosh was a television producer for the BBC, where he was the producer responsible for the Scottish input into UK network news. |
|  Jackson Carlaw Jackson is a long serving Tory activist in the West of Scotland and has previously been Vice-Chair of the Party in Scotland. He currently sits on the party's ruling Executive Committee. He fought the Pollock by-election in 1982 and again in 1983. More recently he stood in Eastwood in 2003. |
|  Stewart Maxwell Stewart joined the SNP in 1992 and was elected for the West of Scotland in 2003, he is a member of the Justice 2 Committee and the Subordinate Legislation Committee. Within the Scottish Parliamentary group Stewart is the Group Secretary. Stewart is a member of three Parliamentary cross party groups. They are; Tobacco Control, Cancer and Food. He is the Shadow Deputy Minister for Health and the SNP Deputy Health Spokeperson, with particular responsibility for Public Health. |
|  Gordon MacDonald Gordon MacDonald has been the Councillor for Lenzie on East Dunbartonshire Council since 2003. He previously stood in Falkirk East for the Scottish Parliament in 1999. |
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