Candidates

'Regions do best in Europe when they are able to create a strong, positive identity. Awareness in Europe of Scotland is high.' Donald Dewar, 9 th February 1999.

Glasgow Anniesland By-election candidates

Westminster Parliament

	Dorothy Luckhurst
	Conservative & Unionist
	Dorothy Luckhurst is a Freelance editor and wife of ex-Labour activist and Scotsman editor Tim Luckhurst Recent electoral experience Scottish election 1999: Strathkelvin & Bearsden, 3,688 votes (11.1 %) 1999 Scottish election: Number four on West of Scotland regional list, 48,666 votes (15.7 %).
	William Lyden
	Family Action Movement
	William Lyden Recent electoral experience
	Charlie McCarthy
	Scottish Socialist Party
	Charlie McCarthy is a nurse and Unison steward. He is also a community activist. Recent electoral experience 1999 Scottish election: Glasgow Govan, 1,275 votes (4.8 %)
	Christopher McGinty
	Liberal Democrat
	Christopher McGinty lives in Anniesland and works in financial services as a management consultant. He contested Anniesland in 1997, coming fourth with 7 % of the vote. Recent electoral experience 1997 General election: Glasgow Anniesland 2,453 votes (7.2 %)
	John Robertson
	Labour
	John Robertson is chairman of the Anniesland Constituency Labour Party. Mr Robertson was Mr Dewar's election agent for the past six years. Like Douglas Alexander in Paisley South, Mr Robertson has been all but invisible in this campaign. Recent electoral experience
	Grant Thoms
	Scottish National Party
	Grant Thoms is a 35-year old Community worker in the West of Scotland, living in Glasgow. Grant Thoms had previously been selected to fight the Anniesland constituency at the Westminster General election. Dundee-born, Grant Thoms has a degree in hotel management from Napier University. He has worked in private, public and voluntary sectors and is presently a freelancer specialising in credit union and social economy development. He previously worked as manager of the Lothian Regional Council Employees Credit Union (now Capital Credit Union) and for Community Enterprise in Strathclyde. Grant Thoms has been a Treasurer of the Lothian Region branch of UNISON and a member of ACTS, the voluntary sector of the T&GWU. He has been actve in several voluntary organisations including Social Firms Scotland, LETS link Scotland, Capital Credit Union and the homelessness charity, Emmaus. He joined the SNP in 1997, and is Secretary/Organiser of Hillhead Branch and Secretary/Political Education Officer of Kelvin Constituency Association. He is also a member of the Scottish Self Government College's managing group. Recent electoral experience 1999 local election: Hillhead Park (Glasgow) 739 votes (28.1 %) (2 nd place, 151 votes behind Labour)