West Dunbartonshire voters head to the polls
Votes can be cast until 10pm tonight with a result for the Dumbarton constituency expected tomorrow evening.
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The polls are open in West Dunbartonshire with seven candidates vying for your constituency vote.
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It contains 22 parties or independent candidates for who you can state your preference. The list vote is the method that is supposed to balance out the support for each party and create a result that is more representative of the number of votes cast instead of winner takes all though the First Past the Post system used to count the constituency votes. The counting system means more seats you win on the first ballot the fewer you will win on the second. The SNP is looking for both votes and is on the paper with the description “Nicola Sturgeon for First Minister”.
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Voters in the two Monklands seats will each see five candidates listed on their constituency ballot papers at Thursday’s Holyrood election.
What happened last time?
Kirkcaldy has had just two MSPs since 1999. Marilyn Livingstone was elected for Labour until 2011, when David Torrance won the seat with a slim 182-vote majority. He has since nurtured that lead to 7,395 as of 2016, an 11-point swing even further in favour of the SNP.
In 2019 s UK General Election, locals swung away from Labour s Lesley Laird in favour of SNP-turned-independent-turned-SNP candidate Neale Hanvey. He has since defected to Alex Salmond s Alba.
Voters go to the polls on Thursday, May 6
Who is standing?
Kirkcaldy has five constituency candidates for 2020, each of whom is profiled below in their own words.