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Lee Butcher
(Not standing on Highlands & Islands list) |
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| Labour |
Lee Butcher is Scottish Labour Club contact for Aberdeen
Recent electoral experience
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Richard Lochhead MSP
(Not standing on Highlands & Islands list) |
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| Scottish National Party |
Richard Lochhead MSP was born on the 24 th of May 1969 and educated at Williamson High School in Glasgow, the Glasgow Central School of Commerce, and Stirling University where he graduated with a BA(Hons) in Political Studies in 1994. He worked as a Clerical trainer for the SSEB between 1987 and 1989. Between 1994 and 1998, Richard Lochhead was the Office Manager for Alex Salmond MP and from 1998 until 1999 he worked as a Development Officer on Dunde City Council. In 1999 he was fourth on the SNP's North-east Scotland list and was elected as the region's fourth MSP. In 2003, he was first on the SNP's North-east Scotland regional list and was elected as the region's fifth MSP.
Richard Lochhead was Shadow Deputy Minister for Fisheries & the Water Industry from May 1999 until April 2003, Shadow Deputy Minister for Environment & Rural Affairs from May 2003 until September 2004 and since then has been Shadow Minister for Environment, Rural Affairs, Energy & Fisheries. He is a member of a large number of Cross-Party Groups, including Oil and Gas, Affordable Housing, and Cycling.
Richard Lochhead resigned his North-East Scotland list seat on the 7 th April 2006 and was elected as MSP for Moray on the 27 th April, increasing the SNP vote by 4 %. This was the first time that the party holding a seat had increased their vote in a by-election since Labour held Berwickshire & East Lothian in 1978.
Richard Lochheard lives in Moray with his wife Fiona and son Angus, in his spare time he enjoys reading, cinema, football and cycling.
Shadow Ministerial Posts:
September 2004 - Shadow Minister for Environment, Rural Affairs, Energy & Fisheries
May 2003 - September 2004 Shadow Deputy Minister for Environment & Rural Afairs
May 1999 - April 2003 Shadow Deputy Minister for Fisheries & Water Industry
Recent electoral experience
2006 Scottish Parliament by-election, Moray, 12,653 votes (46.15 %) (elected)
2003 Scottish Parliament election, Aberdeen Central, 5,593 votes (26.68 %)
2003 Scottish Parliament election, First on North-east Scotland list, 66,463 votes for list (27.28 %) (elected)
1999 Scottish Parliament election, Aberdeen Central, 7,609 votes (28.72 %)
1999 Scottish Parliament election, Fourth on North-east Scotland list, 92,329 votes (32.35 %) (elected)
1997 Westminster election, Gordon, 8,435 votes (19.97 %)
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Dominique Rommel
(Also number 3 on Highlands & Islands list) |
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| Liberal Democrat |
Dominique Rommel has been chosen as candidate for Moray in place of the disgraced veteran candidate, Cllr Linda Gorn whose campaign team in the 2006 by-election was accused of behaving like 'snake-oil salesmen' when they attempted to mislead the voters by making selective quotes from the Northern Scot newspaper. The paper's editor, Pauline Taylor said: 'I have never known anything like it. It is just appalling that they are doing this.' The newspaper made a complaint to the Electoral Commission. On the 12 th April 2006 the Liberals published a poll suggesting they would come second with 32.0 % of the vote in Moray, but when the votes were counted they were in third place behind the Tories with just 19.37 %.
Dominique Rommel is 48 years old, single, and has lived in Scalloway in the Shetland Islands since 1993. She works as the managing director of consultancy Pharos Atlantic Ltd. Ms Rommel is a qualified workboat skipper and commercial yachtmaster and is a member of Shetland Health Board, Shetland Development Trust, Shetland Transport Partnership and Scalloway Community Council. Before she came to Shetland she was a court lawyer and then a banker in Brussels.
Recent electoral experience
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Mary Scanlon
(Also number 1 on Highlands & Islands list) |
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| Conservative & Unionist |
Ms Scanlon, who is now known in Moray by her full name, "Mary Scanlon is a Tory!", was born in Dundee on the 25 th May 1947 and educated at Craigo Secondary School in Montrose and Dundee University where she graduated with an MA in Economics and Politics and a Diploma in Personnel Management. She worked as a Civil servant and for British Telecom before becoming a Lecturer in Economics and Management at Perth College from 1983 - 1988, and later at Dundee Institute of Technology from 1988 - 1994 become lecturing in Economics/Business administration at Inverness College of the University of the Highlands & Islands. In 1999 and 2003 she was second on the Tory Highlands & Islands list. In 1999 she was elected as the region's fifth MSP and in 2003 as the region's fourth MSP.
Scanlon is divorced and is a member of the Institute of Personnel Development. In the Scottish Parliament, she voted in favour of the invasion of Iraq.
Mary Scanlon was Tory Spokesperson on Communities and was Convenor of the Cross-Party Groups on Fertility Services, Funerals & Bereavement. She resigned her Highlands & list seat on 7 th April 2006, hoping to win Moray. Scanlon claimed to be Margaret Ewing's natural heir but her by-election leaflets failed to mention that she was a member of the Tory party. Her by-election team was reported to Grampian Police for falsifying two supposedly handwritten letters of support from local independent councillors. Scalon failed to win Moray and only managed to increase the Tory vote by 0.36 %. However, she had the satisfaction of staying ahead of the Liberals, who had published polling figures which suggested they could win the seat, but were caught out attempting to mislead the public.
Recent electoral experience.
2006 Scottish Parliament by-election, Moray, 6,268 votes (22.86 %)
2003 Scottish Parliament election, Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber, 6,205 votes (17.83 %)
2003 Scottish Parliament election, Second on Highlands & Islands list, 26,989 votes for list (16.01 %) (elected)
1999 Scottish Parliament election, Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber, 6,107 votes (14.60 %)
1999 Scottish Parliament election, Second on Highlands & Islands list, 30,122 votes for list (14.94 %) (elected)
1997 Westminster election, Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber, 8,355 votes (17.49 %)
1992 Westminster election, North East Fife, 16,122 votes (38.53 %)
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