Graeme Morrice

Graeme Morrice is the Labour candidate for Livingston. Graeme is a business graduate of Napier University in Edinburgh and has held various council positions, including Leader of West Lothian Council during the time it won UK Council of the Year. Graeme's hobbies include reading, listening to music and playing the guitar.

Lis Bardell

Local to West Lothian, Lis is from a mining and engineering family.

She has always been active in her local community and has two grown up children.

Lis most recently worked from September 2006 til December 2009 as Manager of Aberlour Childcare Trust's National Parenting Development Project.  She studied Law at Edinburgh and Social Policy and Social Work in Bristol. She has worked as a Probation Officer in the drug & alcohol, residential child care, community development, youth work and parenting support fields. 

Lis has lectured in Social Work and Social Work Management at Edinburgh & Strathclyde Universities and has also taught part-time with The Open University Business School and School of Health & Social Care.

Alison Adamson-Ross

Alison has been re-selected as the Conservative Parliamentary candidate in Livingston. In 2005, when Robin Cook was MP, Alison fought a positive campaign on local issues where she successfully secured an increase in the Party's vote.

A grandmother of three, Alison has lived in Livingston for thirty years. During her son's early years she was involved in parent-run Playgroups then after-school care club provision. A firm follower of Pipe bands, she enjoys going to Competitions when work commitments allow. Alison runs the family business of Kiltmaking in Edinburgh, now third generation. She is a member of the FSB and is eager to see a Conservative Government remove more red tape, regulations and bureacracy that is suffocating small businesses. Alison believes in people power and has helped local people in many issues affecting them.

Charles Dundas

Charles is the Scottish Liberal Democrats' Councillor for the City Centre of Edinburgh. He sits on the Planning, Education, Transport, Environment and Audit Committees as well as the Lothian and Borders Police Board.

Brought up in West Lothian in the village of Fauldhouse, Charles joined the Liberal Democrats aged 16.

Although a grassroots activist during the 1997 Westminster general election, Charles' first candidature came at the age of 21 during the Scottish elections of 1999 when he contested the Armadale West ward of West Lothian Council.

At the University of Glasgow where he studied History and went on to become a trainee management accountant with the National Australia Bank Group in Glasgow.

Since then Charles has worked as a researcher in the Scottish Parliament, a constituency organiser in Fife and as a National Campaigner for the Liberal Democrats in Scotland. At the general election in May 2005 he was Agent to Sir Menzies Campbell MP in North East Fife and later that year he was selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Livingston in the by-election following the unexpected death of Robin Cook MP.

Charles has been married since 2004 to Siobhan Mathers, they have one son.