Constituency Profile
Constituency: |
Perth |
| Current MSP : | Roseanna Cunningham |
| Current Party : |  |
| Majority 2007(%) : | 7.16 |
2007 Results: |
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| Candidate | Votes | % | % change from '03 | |
 | Roseanna Cunningham | 13751 | 39.44 | +5.54 |
 | Alexander Stewart | 11256 | 32.29 | +0.69 |
 | Peter Barrett | 4767 | 13.67 | +2.5 |
 | Doug Maughan | 4513 | 12.95 | -4.86 |
Winnability |
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| Swing req for CON gain | 3.5784% |
| CON winability* | 2 |
| Swing req for LIB gain | 12.8851% |
| LIB winability* | 16 |
| Swing req for LAB gain | 13.2494% |
| LAB winability* | 24 |
| * This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party | |
Perth Candidate Profiles
|  Roseanna Cunningham MSP Roseanna Cunningham was born in Glasgow in 1951 and studied to become a lawyer. Ms Cunningham has represented Perth since winning the seat in a Westminster by-election in 1995, being a dual mandate MP/MSP until 2001. She was the SNP's Deputy Leader from September 2000-2004 and is currently the SNP's Shadow Environment & Rural Affairs Minister and a member of the Parliament's Environment & Rural Affairs Committee. |
|  Liz Smith Liz Smith has been a candidate on numerous occasions; for Edinburgh South in the 1997 General Election, Perth in the 2001 General Election, and Ochil in the 2005 General Election. She was political advisor to Sir Malcolm Rifkin MP and is currently a part time Economics teacher at George Watson's School. |
|  Peter Barrett - |
|  Doug Maughan . |
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