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Edinburgh North and Leith |
| Current MSP : |
Malcolm Chisholm |
| Current Party : |
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| Majority 2007 (%) : |
7.71 |
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| 2007 Results: |
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Candidate |
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| Malcolm Chisholm | 11020 | 34.78 | -3.43 |
 | Mike Crockart | 8576 | 27.07 | +10.42 |
 | Davie Hutchinson | 8044 | 25.39 | +6.02 |
 | Iain Whyte | 4045 | 12.77 | -4.01 |
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| Winnability |
| Swing req for LIB gain | 3.86% | | LIB winability* | 4 | | Swing req for SNP gain | 4.70% | | SNP winability* | 19 | | Swing req for CON gain | 11.01% | | CON winability* | 18 |
| * This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party |
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Edinburgh North and Leith
Candidate Profiles |
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Malcolm Chisholm MSP
Malcolm Chisholm has been an MSP since the first Scottish Parliament Elections in 1999. Before entering Holyrood in 1999 Malcolm was a Westminster MP for North Edinburgh & Leith (1992-2001).
In the first Scottish Parliament he was first Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care (2000) before becoming Minister for Health and Community Care (2001-2004).
He held the post of Communities Minister in 2004 but after voting for an SNP motion rejecting the replacement of Trident in December 2006, Mr. Chisholm resigned as Communities Minister.
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Mike Crockart
Mike stood as Liberal Democrat candidate for Edinburgh North & Leith in the Westminster General Election in 2005 where he gained 29% of the vote.
Mike has lived in Edinburgh for over 20 years moving to the city to study Politics at Edinburgh University. He has served as a police officer in Lothian and Borders Police based at Fettes and Gayfield Square Police stations and now works as a systems developer in the financial sector. He lives locally with his wife and two sons in Craigleith.
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Davie Hutchinson
David is the Organiser of the Edinburgh SNP City Association and a member of Edinburgh branch.
He was born in Glasgow in 1981, was educated at Greenfaulds High School, Cumbernauld and holds an MA (Hons) in Politics and Contemporary European Studies from Dundee University. After graduating in 2002 David moved to Edinburgh to work as a Press Researcher and since November 2003 has been employed as a Researcher and Constituency Officer for Lothians MSP Kenny MacAskill.
His website can be found here.
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Iain Whyte
Iain Whyte was born in Edinburgh in 1969. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh and worked for the NHS as a Quality Improvement Officer. He has been a member of Edinburgh City Council since 1995. He represents Craigleith and is the leader of the Tory group on the council.
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Constituency Comments
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| Posted Comments |
Big well done to Malcolm. Good to have you back as my MSP. Lib Dems won't take this seat in the future. North & Leith was the Fibs no.1 target and they poured all the money in here. After Marilyn McLaren losing due to overkill in Griffiths seat last time you would have thought they would have learned this time around, but no - complete overkill yet again, serves them right. One disappointment on the night though was that Labours incompetent Maginnis was re-elected as councillor. However I did have a smile on my face at the count when she realised that she only scraped in on the last re-distribution of votes and was somewhat fizzed. Now maybe the new councillors will finally get around to doing something about the death trap that is the road outside my house!!!
Posted by Allan on 8/5/2007
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I always thought that Crockart would come near to knocking out Chisholm. I have a feeling that Crockart will could win here at the next general election.
Posted by on 6/5/2007
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Good to see Chisholm back in. His principled stance on Trident seems to have paid off. The SNP already have so many unkowns elected that they didn't need another nobody elected here. We're lacking expereienced politicians in term three now by the looks of things.
Posted by Ed North on 5/5/2007
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A bigger improvement for the Lib Dems than expected. Labour in as expected, but happened to the tories?
Posted by New Leither on 4/5/2007
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I agree with Margo Walker, Labour at 33%. Then SNP 26%, Lib Dems 22%, Tories 19%
Posted by Thomas on 4/5/2007
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