SNP'S 59 LOCAL AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONS FOR SCOTLAND

SNP'S 59 LOCAL AND NATIONAL CHAMPIONS FOR SCOTLAND

CANDIDATES CONFIRMED AS ELECTION MOVES IN SCOTLAND'S FAVOUR

Speaking as nominations for the Westminster general election formally closed this afternoon, the SNP's campaign coordinator Stewart Hosie said:

"This outstanding team of SNP candidates will champion the interests of their local communities and of Scotland at every opportunity.

"This general election is moving in Scotland's favour, and with the increasing probability of a balanced parliament, a vote for the SNP can tip the contest decisively in that direction.

"We will use the rest of this campaign to further expose the savage cuts agenda of Labour, the Tories and Liberals, and our candidates will offer a real alternative to the tired, discredited machine politics of Westminster and the London parties."



The full list of SNP candidates is as follows:

Aberdeen North: Joanna Strathdee

Aberdeen South: Mark McDonald

Airdrie & Shotts: Sophia Coyle

Angus: Mike Weir

Argyll & Bute: Michael MacKenzie

Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock: Charles Brodie

Banff & Buchan: Dr Eilidh Whiteford

Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk: Paul Wheelhouse

Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross: Jean Urquhart

Central Ayrshire: John Mullen

Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill: Frances McGlinchey

Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East: Julie Hepburn

Dumfries & Galloway: Andrew Wood

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweedale: Aileen Orr

Dundee East: Stewart Hosie

Dundee West: Jim Barrie

Dunfermline & West Fife: Joe McCall

East Dunbartonshire: Iain White

East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow: John McKenna

East Lothian: Andrew Sharp

East Renfrewshire: Gordon Archer

Edinburgh East: George Kerevan

Edinburgh North & Leith: Calum Cashley

Edinburgh South West: Kaukab Stewart

Edinburgh South: Sandy Howat

Edinburgh West: Sheena Cleland

Falkirk: John McNally

Glasgow Central: Osama Saeed

Glasgow East: John Mason

Glasgow North East: Billy McAllister

Glasgow North West: Margaret Park

Glasgow North: Patrick Grady

Glasgow South West: Chris Stephens

Glasgow South: Malcolm Fleming

Glenrothes: David Alexander

Gordon: Richard Thomson

Inverclyde: Innes Nelson

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey: John Finnie

Kilmarnock & Loudoun: George Leslie

Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath: Douglas Chapman

Lanark & Hamilton East: Clare Adamson

Linlithgow & East Falkirk: Thomas Smith

Livingston: Lis Bardell

Midlothian: Colin Beattie

Moray: Angus Robertson

Motherwell & Wishaw: Marion Fellows

Na h-Eileanan an Iar: Angus MacNeil

North Ayrshire & Arran: Patricia Gibson

North East Fife: Rod Campbell

Ochil & South Perthshire: Annabelle Ewing

Orkney & Shetland: John Mowat

Paisley & North Renfrewshire: Margaret MacLaren

Paisley & South Renfrewshire: Andrew Doig

Perth & North Perthshire: Pete Wishart

Ross, Skye & Lochaber: Alasdair Stephen

Rutherglen & Hamilton West: Graeme Horne

Stirling: Alison Lindsay

West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine: Dennis Robertson

West Dunbartsonshire: Graeme McCormick