Analysis There’s every reason to suspect that the contest in Aberdeenshire East in a few days’ time may be competitive
Winner in 2016: Gillian Martin (SNP) ABERDEENSHIRE East, and its predecessor constituency of Gordon, was held by Alex Salmond during his seven-year tenure as First Minister. But that doesn’t in any sense mean that it’s a seat in which the SNP have always been strong. When Salmond first announced his intention to stand there, the Liberal Democrat Nora Radcliffe was the incumbent and had a very healthy majority over the Tories. The SNP were in a distant third.