Moray by-election for the Scottish Parliament

Voters go to the polls on Thursday 27 April to elect a new MSP for the Holyrood seat of Moray.

The by-election resulted from the death of Margaret Ewing who had served Moray as a Nationalist MSP since 1999.

The candidates for the by-election are listed in alphabetical order, as provided by the returning officer.

Melville Brown - NHSFirst Party

Linda June Gorn - Scottish Liberal Democrats

Alexander Keith - Scottish Labour Party

Richard Neilson Lochhead - Scottish National Party

Mary Scanlon - Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

The 2003 result was as follows:

Margaret Ewing (SNP) 11,384 42.2%
Tim Wood (Conservative) 6,072 22.5%
Peter Peacock (Labour) 5,157 19.1%
Linda Gorn (Lib Dems) 3,283 12.2%
Norma Anderson (SSP) 1,085 4.0%

LINKS

Northern Scot newspaper

Scottish Politics Website

Scottish National Party

Moray Conservatives

Moray Liberal Democrats

NHS First

Scottish Labour

Local blog site

Local blog site

We are looking to bring you copies of some election leaflets from this by-election in the near future.