Scotland Votes


Constituency :	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Current MSP :	Cllr Willie Coffey
Current Party :
Majority 2007 (%) :	4.01


2007 Results:
	Candidate	Votes	%	% change from '03
	Cllr Willie Coffey	14297	42.76	+6.52
	Margaret Jamieson	12955	38.75	-1.33
	Janette McAlpine	4127	12.34	+1.89
	Ron Aitken	2056	6.15	+1.17


Winnability
Swing req for LAB gain	2.01%
LAB winability*	8
Swing req for CON gain	15.21%
CON winability*	36
Swing req for LIB gain	18.31%
LIB winability*	42
* This is the rank of each seat according to marginality by party


Kilmarnock and Loudoun Candidate Profiles
	Cllr Willie Coffey MSP Willie Coffey has been the Cllr for Onthank in East Ayrshire since 1999. In 1995 he won ward 3 of Kilmarnock & Loudoun District Council from Labour. He narrowly failed to win ward 14 on the new East Ayrshire Council in 1995, but won Onthank in 1999 and held it in 2003. Cllr Coffey works for Learning and Teaching Scotland.

	Margaret Jamieson Margaret Jamieson was born in Kilmarnock in 1953. Margaret was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and re-elected in 2003. She is a member of the Audit committee and was the convener of a committee overseeing the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. She is a member of several cross party groups addressing animal welfare, drugs and alcohol, visual impairment, and issues surrounding women. Previous to being an MSP she worked as a cook for Strathclyde Regional Council and was a Regional Officer for Unison.

	Janette McAlpine Janette was born in Glasgow and attended Uddingston Grammar School. She went to Paisley University, where she finished her PhD in environmental management in conjunction with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in 2000. Following her PhD, Janette undertook a Technology Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde University, where she tutored students on starting up an internet business. Janette currently works as the Knowledge Transfer Manager for Glasgow Caledonian University. Dr McAlpine is the former Chairman of the North Lanarkshire Local Government Forum, which was established to stand up for local issues in North Lanarkshire. She was also the candidate in Glasgow Baillieston in the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Elections. More recently, she stood as Westminster Candidate for Glasgow South in the 2005 General Election. Janette currently lives in Stewarton, with her fiancé, James.

	Ron Aitken Ron was born and brought up in Glasgow and was educated at Glasgow University and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has a BA Degree in Middle East Politics and an MSc Degree in International Politics of Asia. Ron has been a councillor for the Liberal Democrats since 2002. For ten years he worked as an assistant to various MPs in the House of Commons on issues like Northern Ireland, health, and the environment.

Constituency Comments

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Posted Comments

Cheers. That's quite unbelievable that I predicted almost every % vote! Total fluke but I thought Mags would go anyway. Let's hope Willie is a good rep for the next 4 years.

Posted by Big Al on 5/5/2007

Big Al. You deserve a prize for that prediction!!

Posted by on 5/5/2007

SNP victory. SNP 42%, Labour 38%,Cons 12%, Libs 8%.

Posted by Big Al on 2/5/2007

lets hear ur predictions then folks. i say: snp 46% lab 35% con 12% lib 7%

Posted by predictions please on 2/5/2007

Does anybody know what the word on the street is re Tony Blair's visit last week? His appearance alongside Ms Jamieson at Johnny Walkers was quite amusing on tv. Is he a help or a hinderence to the under-pressure MSP?

Posted by Big Al on 1/5/2007

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