The Scotsman is holding its seventh election hustings in the North East regional list area. Image: Craig Sinclair
Mr Mutch stood down from his head of communications role in the SNP in January last year and was succeeded by former Daily Record editor Murray Foote.
He is seeking the seat held by Conservative MSP Alexander Burnett, having separately stood in the nearby West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency in the December 2019 general election, when he lost to Tory MP Andrew Bowie by just 843 votes.
A man was last week charged in connection with threatening comments allegedly made to Mr Mutch and about First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
North-east candidate profiles: Aberdeen Central
Updated: 26/04/2021, 4:39 pm
Aberdeen Central is currently held by the SNP.
Voters across the north-east will go to the polls next month to decide the makeup of the next Scottish Parliament.
Candidates in each constituency are vying for all-important votes ahead of polling day on May 6.
Aberdeen Central was held by Labour’s Lewis Macdonald from the parliament’s creation in 1999 until 2011 when it was won by Kevin Stewart of the SNP.
The party then held the seat in 2016.
Here we profile each of the candidates hoping to win your votes in Aberdeen Central.
Kevin Stewart – SNP
Winner in 2016: Kevin Stewart (SNP) THE north of Aberdeen wasn’t the only part of the city where the SNP surged to unprecedented heights in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999. The phenomenon was also witnessed in the Aberdeen Central constituency, where the SNP candidate Richard Lochhead took an impressive 29% of the vote, moving his party to within a 5% swing of gaining the seat from Labour’s Lewis Macdonald. However, the swing to the SNP at the following election in 2003 was a mere 2%, and there was huge disappointment in 2007 when Macdonald narrowly held on for Labour against the national tide that swept Alex Salmond into Bute House.
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