Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2011

The 2011 Scottish Labour Party leadership election is an internal party election to choose a new leader of the Scottish Labour Party

Scottish Labour Party

The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....

. The election follows the announcement by Iain Gray

Iain Gray

Iain Gray is a Scottish politician and the Leader of Scottish Labour Party Opposition in the Scottish Parliament. Gray was elected as the Member of the Scottish Parliament for the East Lothian constituency in 2007 having previously represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1999 to 2003.-Background and...

that he would stand down as leader in the autumn of 2011 followin the party's heavy defeat to the Scottish National Party

Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

in May's Scottish Parliament general election. Gray won the previous contest in September 2008

Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2008

The 2008 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was an internal party election to choose a new leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament, and was triggered following the resignation of Wendy Alexander following a row over donations to her own leadership campaign in 2007...

.

It will be the third Scottish Labour leadership election in four years, the first being caused by the resignation of Jack McConnell

Jack McConnell

Jack Wilson McConnell, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale is a British Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He was third First Minister of Scotland from 2001 to 2007, making him the longest serving First Minister in the history of the Scottish Parliament...

following the party's defeat in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election

Scottish Parliament election, 2007

The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the third general election to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999...

, and the second

Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2008

by Wendy Alexander

Wendy Alexander

Wendy Alexander is a Scottish politician and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley North. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the leader of the Labour Party group in the Scottish Parliament from 2007-2008...

's resignation.

Running concurrently is a deputy leadership election, triggered by Johann Lamont's decision to run in the leadership election.

Timetable

6 May: Iain Gray
Iain Gray
Iain Gray is a Scottish politician and the Leader of Scottish Labour Party Opposition in the Scottish Parliament. Gray was elected as the Member of the Scottish Parliament for the East Lothian constituency in 2007 having previously represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1999 to 2003.-Background and...

announces his postponed resignation as Scottish Labour leader following the party's defeat in the previous day's elections.
11 May: Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition...

orders a review
Review of the Labour Party in Scotland
The Murphy and Boyack review is a report being compiled by Jim Murphy and Sarah Boyack on the future structure of the Labour Party in Scotland, in response to the landslide victory by the Scottish National Party in the Scottish general election of 2011...

into the full workings of Scottish Labour, led by Jim Murphy
Jim Murphy
James Francis "Jim" Murphy is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire....

and Sarah Boyack
Sarah Boyack
Sarah Boyack MSP is a Scottish Labour MSP for the Lothian region and formerly constituency MSP for Edinburgh Central in the Scottish Parliament....

.
10 September: The Murphy/Boyack review is published, proposing major changes to Scottish Labour's structures, including the creation of a full Scottish Labour leader to replace the previous post of 'Leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament'.
29 October: A special party conference is held at the Strathclyde Suite in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is an arts venue, in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is operated by Glasgow Life, an agency of Glasgow City Council, which also runs Glasgow’s City Halls and Old Fruitmarket venue...

where the changes proposed by the Murphy/Boyack review are officially adopted by the party. The conference also marks the official start of the leadership election.
4 November: Nominations from parliamentarains closed.
17 December: The result of the elections are due to be announced.

Candidates and nominations

Any Scottish Labour MP (Member of Parliament), MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...

or MEP (Member of the European Parliament)

Member of the European Parliament

A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...

may stand for election as either leader or deputy leader. Successful nomination requires the support of 12.5% of the total number of Scottish Labour's parliamentarians in the Scottish Parliament, the House of Commons, and the European Parliament, with any candidate needing at least one nomination from two of these three institutions. At the opening of formal nominations at the Scottish Labour conference on 29 October, the party had a total of 80 such parliamentarians, meaning a total of 10 nominations was required.

Once the nomination process by parliamentarians is complete, supporting nominations made be made for each candidate by Scottish Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs), trade unions that are affiliated to the Labour Party

Affiliated trade union

In British politics, the term affiliated trade union refers to a trade union that has an affiliation to the British Labour Party.The Party was created by the trade unions and socialist societies in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee...

, affiliated socialist societies, Scottish Young Labour

Young Labour

Young Labour can refer to three youth organizations of Labour Parties.*Young Labour , youth wing of the Labour Party*Young Labour , youth wing of the New Zealand Labour Party...

, and individual local councillors.

This will be the first leadership elections that use this nomination procedure, which was devised by the Review of the Labour Party in Scotland

Review of the Labour Party in Scotland

The Murphy and Boyack review is a report being compiled by Jim Murphy and Sarah Boyack on the future structure of the Labour Party in Scotland, in response to the landslide victory by the Scottish National Party in the Scottish general election of 2011...

, conducted by Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy

James Francis "Jim" Murphy is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire....

MP and Sarah Boyack

Sarah Boyack

Sarah Boyack MSP is a Scottish Labour MSP for the Lothian region and formerly constituency MSP for Edinburgh Central in the Scottish Parliament....

MSP following the party's heavy defeat to the Scottish National Party

Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

in the Scottish Parliament election held in May 2011.

Leadership - nominated candidates

At the close of nominations, three candidates had secured the required level of parliamentary nominations to secure a position on the ballot paper.

Tom Harris MP

Profile - MP for the Glasgow South

Glasgow South (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow South is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

constituency since 2001 (Glasgow Cathcart

Glasgow Cathcart (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Cathcart was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005, when it was replaced by the larger Glasgow South constituency....

from 2001-2005). Former minister at the Department for Transport

Department for Transport

In the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are not devolved...

.

Candidacy announced - 10 September

Policies - Opposes the Scottish Government's policy on alcohol pricing.

Parliamentary nominations - MPs: Douglas Alexander

Douglas Alexander

Douglas Garven Alexander is a British Labour Party politician, who is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the shadow cabinet of Ed Miliband. He has held cabinet posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Secretary of State for Scotland and...

, Anne Begg

Anne Begg

Dame Anne Begg, DBE is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South since 1997...

, Sheila Gilmore

Sheila Gilmore

Sheila Gilmore is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East since 2010. Gilmore stood for the seat following the decision of Gavin Strang MP to stand down; she is a former City of Edinburgh councillor.- Childhood and early career :Gilmore was born...

, Tom Greatrex

Tom Greatrex

Thomas James Greatrex is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West since 2010. He is presently Shadow Energy Minister.-Early life:Greatrex was born in Kent...

, Tom Harris, Eric Joyce

Eric Joyce

Eric Stuart Joyce is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Falkirk since 2005. Joyce served as a Private in the Black Watch before attending University and subsequently rejoining the army as a commissioned officer...

, Michael McCann

Michael McCann (politician)

Michael McCann is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow since 2010, succeeding Adam Ingram.-References:...

, Ann McKechin, Iain McKenzie

Iain McKenzie

Iain McKenzie is a Scottish Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Inverclyde since the June 2011 by-election in his constituency.-Early life:...

, Ian Murray

Ian Murray (Scottish politician)

Ian Murray is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South since 2010. He was previously an Edinburgh city councillor for the Liberton/Gilmerton ward.-Life outside politics:...

, Pamela Nash

Pamela Nash

Pamela Nash is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts since the 2010 general election.-Early life and education:...

, John Robertson. MEPs: David Martin

David Martin (Scottish politician)

David Martin is a British Labour Party politician, and member of the European Parliament for Scotland.He was educated outside of Edinburgh at Liberton High School. He was first elected as a councillor in 1982, and won the Lothians seat in the 1984 European Parliament elections...

Johann Lamont MSP

Profile - MSP for the Glasgow Pollok

Glasgow Pollok (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Pollok is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

constituency since 1999, Scottish Labour deputy leader since 2008.

Candidacy announced - 3 September

Policies - Opposes the Scottish Government's policy on alcohol pricing.

Parliamentary nominations - MSPs: Jackie Baillie

Jackie Baillie

Jacqueline Marie Baillie is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Dumbarton constituency and Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy.-Background:...

, Richard Baker

Richard Baker (Scottish politician)

Richard Baker is a Scottish Labour politician, and member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland region. He was first elected in the 2003 general election, when he was the youngest sitting MSP, and since May 2011 is Labour's Finance spokesperson in the Scottish Parliament...

, Claudia Beamish

Claudia Beamish

Claudia Hamilton Beamish is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the South of Scotland region.Beamish is a leading activist in the Scottish Labour Party...

, Sarah Boyack

Sarah Boyack

Sarah Boyack MSP is a Scottish Labour MSP for the Lothian region and formerly constituency MSP for Edinburgh Central in the Scottish Parliament....

, Malcolm Chisholm

Malcolm Chisholm

Malcolm Chisholm is a Scottish Labour Party politician, and a former Scottish Executive minister.-Background:Chisholm was educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh and became an English teacher. He is married with three children...

, Helen Eadie

Helen Eadie

Helen Eadie is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician and has represented Dunfermline East in the Scottish Parliament since 1999.-Background:...

, Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Josephine Ferguson is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill, a seat which she has held since 1999.- Background :...

, Neil Findlay

Neil Findlay

Neil Findlayis a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Lothian region.He is also involved in West lothian council as a Councillor, a member of the Performance Committee, Local Area Committee and the Services for the Community Policy Development and Scrutiny...

, James Kelly

James Kelly (Scottish politician)

James Kelly is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Rutherglen constituency. He was elected for the first time in the 2007 Scottish Election....

, Johann Lamont, Hanzala Malik

Hanzala Malik

Hanzala Malik is a Scottish Labour Party member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow, elected in 2011.He is also a Glasgow City Councillor, for the Hillhead ward.- External links :**...

, Paul Martin

Paul Martin (Scottish politician)

Paul Martin is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow Provan constituency since May 2011, having formerly been MSP for Glasgow Springburn from the beginning of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 until the constituency was abolished for the 2011...

, Siobhan McMahon

Siobhan McMahon

Siobhan McMahon is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Central Scotland region.-Political career:McMahon is supporting Johann Lamont MSP to become Scottish Labour's leader.-Labour Party researcher:...

, Duncan McNeil

Duncan McNeil

Duncan McNeil is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Greenock and Inverclyde.-Career:From 1965 to 1979 he worked as a boilermaker at Scott Lithgow, initially as an apprentice...

, Anne McTaggart

Anne McTaggart

Cllr Anne McTaggart MSP is a Scottish Labour party politician, Glasgow city councillor and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow region, elected as third of 3 from the Labour list in 2011.- Background :...

, Elaine Murray

Elaine Murray

Dr Elaine Murray is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dumfriesshire since 1999. At the 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections, Dr Murray increased her percentage share of the vote...

, John Pentland

John Pentland

John Pentland is a Scottish politician representing the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency in the Scottish Parliament.He has been a member of the Labour Party for over 30 years, holding numerous branch and CLP positions....

, Drew Smith

Drew Smith

Drew Smith is a Labour member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow .He was first elected in 2011 and is a former Chair of Scottish Young Labour and former member of the Scottish TUC General Council....

, Elaine Smith

Elaine Smith

Elaine Smith is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Coatbridge and Chryston constituency since 1999....

, David Stewart. MPs: Katy Clark

Katy Clark

Kathryn Sloan Clark is a British Labour Party politician and former trade union official who has been the Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran since 2005.-Early life:...

, Michael Connarty

Michael Connarty

Michael Connarty is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Linlithgow and Falkirk East since 2005, and a variation of the same seat since 1992.-Early life:...

, Cathy Jamieson

Cathy Jamieson

Catherine Mary "Cathy" Jamieson is a UK Labour party politician and the Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock & Loudoun. She has previously been Deputy Leader and Acting Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, former Minister for Justice in the Scottish Executive, and Labour Co-operative Member of the...

, Jim McGovern, Sandra Osborne

Sandra Osborne

Sandra Currie Osborne is a Scottish Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock since 2005. She was first elected in 1997, and resigned from a government job in 2003 over the Iraq War. She was a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2005–10...

, Fiona O'Donnell

Fiona O'Donnell

Fiona O'Donnell, née Kenny is a Scottish Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for East Lothian since 2010....

, Jim Sheridan.

Ken Macintosh MSP

Profile - MSP for the Eastwood

Eastwood (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Eastwood is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election...

constituency since 1999.

Candidacy announced - 12 September

Policies - Opposes the Scottish Government's policy on alcohol pricing, return Scotrail

ScotRail

ScotRail was a brand name used for all Scottish regional and commuter rail services, including some cross-border services, from 1997 to 2004....

and the Scottish bus network back into public ownership.

Parliamentary nominations - MSPs: Claire Baker

Claire Baker

Claire Baker is a Scottish Labour Party politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife since 2007...

, Neil Bibby

Neil Bibby

Neil Bibby is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the West of Scotland region. Bibby was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011 to represent the West of Scotland region, as the Labour Party returned three members from the list.Born in Paisley, Bibby grew up in Renfrewshire...

, Kezia Dugdale

Kezia Dugdale

Kezia Dugdale is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Lothian region.-Background:...

, Mary Fee

Mary Fee

Mary Fee is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the West of Scotland region.-References:...

, Mark Griffin

Mark Griffin (politician)

Mark Griffin is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Central Scotland region.Mark is also a North Lanarkshire Councillor....

, Ken Macintosh, Margaret McCulloch

Margaret McCulloch

Margaret McCulloch is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Central Scotland region.She is a member of the Scottish Parliament Finance Committee and substitute member of the Subordinate Legislation Committee.- References :...

, Margaret McDougall

Margaret McDougall

Margaret McDougall is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the West of Scotland region.She previously represented the Kilwinning South ward on North Ayrshire Council and stood for election to the Scottish Parliament on the Labour list for the South of Scotland region in the 2007...

, Jenny Marra

Jenny Marra

Jenny Marra is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the North East Scotland electoral region. She is a member of the Education and Culture Committee and of the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee.She is the niece of the musician Michael...

, Michael McMahon

Michael McMahon (Scottish politician)

Michael McMahon is a Scottish Labour politician and is the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Uddingston and Bellshill since 2011. He was previously the member for the former seat of Hamilton North and Bellshill. McMahon has been the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Local Government for Labour in...

, John Park

John Park (politician)

John Park is a Scottish Labour Party politician and was elected a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region in May 2007. He is Labour's Chief Whip.-Background:...

, Graeme Pearson

Graeme Pearson

Graeme Pearson is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region. He is a former police officer and Director General of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.- References :...

, Richard Simpson

Richard Simpson (politician)

Richard Simpson is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Ochil constituency from 1999 to 2003 and a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid-Scotland and Fife region as of the 2007 election...

. MPs: Willie Bain

Willie Bain

William Thomas Bain is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East since 2009....

, Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks (politician)

Gordon Raymond Banks is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire since 2005.-Early life:...

, Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling

Alistair Maclean Darling is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament since 1987, currently for Edinburgh South West. He served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010...

, Russell Brown

Russell Brown

Russell Leslie Brown is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He is Member of Parliament for Dumfries and Galloway.-Early years :Russell Brown was born in Annan, Scotland, and attended the local Annan Academy...

, Thomas Docherty

Thomas Docherty (politician)

Thomas Docherty is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife since 2010....

, Brian Donohoe

Brian Donohoe

Brian Harold Donohoe is a British Labour Party politician and former trade union official, who has been the Member of Parliament for Central Ayrshire since 2005, and was first elected in 1992.-Early life:...

, Frank Doran, Gemma Doyle

Gemma Doyle (politician)

Gemma Doyle is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for West Dunbartonshire since 2010...

, Mark Lazarowicz

Mark Lazarowicz

Mark Lazarowicz, is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North and Leith since 2001...

, Anne McGuire

Anne McGuire

Anne Catherine McGuire is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stirling since 1997.-Early life:...

, Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy

James Francis "Jim" Murphy is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire....

, Frank Roy

Frank Roy

Frank Roy is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Motherwell and Wishaw since 1997...

. MEPs: Catherine Stihler

Catherine Stihler

Catherine Stihler is a British Labour Party politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland since 1999, being re-elected in 2004 and 2009...

Deputy leadership - nominated candidates

At the close of nominations, three candidates had secured the required parliamentary nominations to achieve a place on the ballot paper.

Ian Davidson
Ian Davidson (Scottish politician)
Ian Graham Davidson is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow South West since 2005...

MP

Profile - MP for the Glasgow South West

Glasgow South West (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow South West is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

constituency since 1992, (Glasgow Govan

Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Govan was a parliamentary constituency in the Govan district of Glasgow. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 2005, returning one Member of Parliament elected by the first-past-the-post system.The area which the constituency...

1992-1997, Glasgow Pollok

Glasgow Pollok (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Pollok was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005, when it was replaced by Glasgow South West...

1997-2005). Chairman of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee since 2010.

Parliamentary nominations - MSPs: Neil Findlay

Neil Findlay

, Elaine Smith

Elaine Smith

Elaine Smith is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Coatbridge and Chryston constituency since 1999....

. MPs: Katy Clark

Katy Clark

Kathryn Sloan Clark is a British Labour Party politician and former trade union official who has been the Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran since 2005.-Early life:...

, Michael Connarty

Michael Connarty

Michael Connarty is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Linlithgow and Falkirk East since 2005, and a variation of the same seat since 1992.-Early life:...

, Ian Davidson

Ian Davidson (Scottish politician)

Ian Graham Davidson is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow South West since 2005...

, Brian Donohoe

Brian Donohoe

, Jim McGovern, Sandra Osborne

Sandra Osborne

, John Robertson, Jim Sheridan. MEPs: David Martin

David Martin (Scottish politician)

Lewis Macdonald
Lewis Macdonald
Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland, from 2011. He was MSP for the Aberdeen Central constituency from 1999 until 2011.-Background:...

MSP

Profile - MSP for the Aberdeen Central

Aberdeen Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Aberdeen Central is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the first past the post method of election and is one of nine constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region...

constituency, 1999-2011. MSP for the North East Scotland

North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

North East Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament...

region since 2011.

Parliamentary nominations - MSPs: Richard Baker

Richard Baker (Scottish politician)

, Malcolm Chisholm

Malcolm Chisholm

, Helen Eadie

Helen Eadie

Helen Eadie is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician and has represented Dunfermline East in the Scottish Parliament since 1999.-Background:...

, Mary Fee

Mary Fee

Mary Fee is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the West of Scotland region.-References:...

, Lewis Macdonald

Lewis Macdonald

Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland, from 2011. He was MSP for the Aberdeen Central constituency from 1999 until 2011.-Background:...

Margaret McCulloch

Margaret McDougall

Elaine Murray

Richard Simpson (politician)

, David Stewart. MPs: Anne Begg

Anne Begg

Dame Anne Begg, DBE is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South since 1997...

, Frank Doran, Tom Harris.

Anas Sarwar
Anas Sarwar
Anas Sarwar MP is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central since 2010, succeeding his father Mohammad Sarwar.-Early life:...

MP

Profile - MP for the Glasgow Central

Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Central is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . In its current form, the constituency was first used in the general election of 2005, but there was also a Glasgow Central constituency from 1885 to 1997.- Boundaries :The Redistribution of Seats Act...

constituency since 2010.

Parliamentary nominations - MSPs: Jackie Baillie

Jackie Baillie

, Claire Baker

Claire Baker

Claire Baker is a Scottish Labour Party politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Scotland and Fife since 2007...

, Claudia Beamish

Claudia Beamish

Claudia Hamilton Beamish is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the South of Scotland region.Beamish is a leading activist in the Scottish Labour Party...

, Neil Bibby

Neil Bibby

, Kezia Dugdale

Kezia Dugdale

Kezia Dugdale is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Lothian region.-Background:...

, Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Josephine Ferguson is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill, a seat which she has held since 1999.- Background :...

, Mark Griffin

Mark Griffin (politician)

Mark Griffin is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Central Scotland region.Mark is also a North Lanarkshire Councillor....

, James Kelly

James Kelly (Scottish politician)

James Kelly is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Rutherglen constituency. He was elected for the first time in the 2007 Scottish Election....

, Hanzala Malik

Hanzala Malik

Hanzala Malik is a Scottish Labour Party member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow, elected in 2011.He is also a Glasgow City Councillor, for the Hillhead ward.- External links :**...

, Jenny Marra

Jenny Marra

, Paul Martin

Paul Martin (Scottish politician)

, Michael McMahon

Michael McMahon (Scottish politician)

, Siobhan McMahon

Siobhan McMahon

, Duncan McNeil

Duncan McNeil

, Anne McTaggart

Anne McTaggart

, John Park

John Park (politician)

, Graeme Pearson

Graeme Pearson

, John Pentland

John Pentland

, Drew Smith

Drew Smith

. MPs: Douglas Alexander

Douglas Alexander

, Willie Bain

Willie Bain

William Thomas Bain is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow North East since 2009....

, Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks (politician)

Gordon Raymond Banks is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire since 2005.-Early life:...

, Russell Brown

Russell Brown

, Tom Clarke, Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling

, Thomas Docherty

Thomas Docherty (politician)

Thomas Docherty is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife since 2010....

, Gemma Doyle

Gemma Doyle (politician)

Gemma Doyle is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for West Dunbartonshire since 2010...

, Sheila Gilmore

Sheila Gilmore

, Tom Greatrex

Tom Greatrex

, Jim Hood

Jim Hood

James Matthew "Jim" Hood is the Attorney General of the U.S. state of Mississippi. A Democrat, he was elected in 2003, having defeated the Republican nominee Scott Newton. A former District Attorney, Hood succeeded Mike Moore....

, Cathy Jamieson

Cathy Jamieson

, Eric Joyce

Eric Joyce

, Mark Lazarowicz

Mark Lazarowicz

Mark Lazarowicz, is a British Labour Co-operative politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North and Leith since 2001...

, Michael McCann

Michael McCann (politician)

Michael McCann is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow since 2010, succeeding Adam Ingram.-References:...

, Gregg McClymont

Gregg McClymont

Gregg McClymont is a Scottish Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East since 2010.-Background and personal life:...

, Anne McGuire

Anne McGuire

Anne Catherine McGuire is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Stirling since 1997.-Early life:...

, Iain McKenzie

Iain McKenzie

Iain McKenzie is a Scottish Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Inverclyde since the June 2011 by-election in his constituency.-Early life:...

, Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy

James Francis "Jim" Murphy is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire....

, Ian Murray

Ian Murray (Scottish politician)

, Pamela Nash

Pamela Nash

Pamela Nash is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts since the 2010 general election.-Early life and education:...

, Fiona O'Donnell

Fiona O'Donnell

Fiona O'Donnell, née Kenny is a Scottish Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for East Lothian since 2010....

, Frank Roy

Frank Roy

Frank Roy is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Motherwell and Wishaw since 1997...

, Anas Sarwar

Anas Sarwar

Anas Sarwar MP is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central since 2010, succeeding his father Mohammad Sarwar.-Early life:...

. MEPs: Catherine Stihler

Catherine Stihler

Catherine Stihler is a British Labour Party politician. She has been a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland since 1999, being re-elected in 2004 and 2009...

Deputy leadership - unsuccessful candidates

Dumfriesshire

Dumfriesshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dumfriesshire is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

MSP Elaine Murray

Elaine Murray

sought nomination for the deputy leadership, and had acquired 4 nominations before withdrawing from the contest on 3 November. Following her withdrawal, Murray nominated Lewis Macdonald

Lewis Macdonald

Hustings

In the run up to the opening of the ballot, Scottish Labour will host a series of hustings events across Scotland.

Date	Title	Location
Friday 18 November, 19:00	Ethnic Minority Hustings	Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
Saturday 19 November, 11:00	Youth & Student Hustings	Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
Sunday 20 November, 14:30	Aberdeen Hustings	Aberdeen Aberdeen Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
Tuesday 22 November, 19:00	Edinburgh Hustings	Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
Friday 25 November, 19:00	Inverness Hustings	Inverness Inverness Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...
Sunday 27 November, 19:00	Dunfermline Hustings	Dunfermline Dunfermline Dunfermline is a town and former Royal Burgh in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. According to a 2008 estimate, Dunfermline has a population of 46,430, making it the second-biggest settlement in Fife. Part of the town's name comes from the Gaelic word...
Monday 28 November, 19:00	Glasgow Hustings	Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
Thursday 1 December, 19:00	Dundee Hustings	Dundee Dundee Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
Sunday 4 December, 14:30	Stirling Hustings	Stirling Stirling Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area. The city is clustered around a large fortress and medieval old-town beside the River Forth...
Tuesday 6 December, 14:30	Ayr Hustings	Ayr Ayr Ayr is a town and port situated on the Firth of Clyde in south-west Scotland. With a population of around 46,000, Ayr is the largest settlement in Ayrshire, of which it is the county town, and has held royal burgh status since 1205...
Thursday 8 December, 19:00	Women's Hustings	Motherwell Motherwell Motherwell is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow. The name "Moderwelt" appears on a map of Lanarkshire made by Timothy Pont some time between 1583 and 1611 and printed in the Netherlands in around 1652, although the settlement was probably little more...

Result

The election will be conducted through a postal ballot, and counted using the alternative vote method in an electoral college

Electoral college

An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations or entities, with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way...

, with a third of the votes allocated to Labour's MSPs, Scottish MPs and Scottish MEPs, a third to individual members of the Scottish Labour Party, and a third to individual members of affiliated organisations, mainly trade unions and socialist societies. Under the alternative vote, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated at each round until one candidate has a majority of votes (i.e., one more than half).

External links

Candidate nominations scottishlabour.org.uk
Election Process scottishlabour.org.uk
Timetable for the leadership election labourhame.com

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Timetable

Candidates and nominations

Leadership - nominated candidates

Tom Harris MP

Johann Lamont MSP

Ken Macintosh MSP

Deputy leadership - nominated candidates

Ian DavidsonIan Davidson (Scottish politician)Ian Graham Davidson is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow South West since 2005... MP

Lewis MacdonaldLewis MacdonaldLewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland, from 2011. He was MSP for the Aberdeen Central constituency from 1999 until 2011.-Background:... MSP

Anas SarwarAnas SarwarAnas Sarwar MP is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central since 2010, succeeding his father Mohammad Sarwar.-Early life:... MP

Deputy leadership - unsuccessful candidates

Hustings

Result

See also

External links

Ian Davidson
Ian Davidson (Scottish politician)
Ian Graham Davidson is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow South West since 2005...

MP

Lewis Macdonald
Lewis Macdonald
Lewis Macdonald is a Scottish Labour regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland, from 2011. He was MSP for the Aberdeen Central constituency from 1999 until 2011.-Background:...

MSP

Anas Sarwar
Anas Sarwar
Anas Sarwar MP is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central since 2010, succeeding his father Mohammad Sarwar.-Early life:...

MP