Candidates

If Labour in Scotland aren't even trusted to choose their own candidates why should they be trusted by the Scottish people?' Alex Salmond at the 1998 SNP Conference.

Banff & Buchan Scottish Parliament By-election candidates

	Peter Anderson
	Scottish Socialist Party
	Recent electoral experience
	Ted Brocklebank
	Conservative & Unionist
	Ted Brocklebank contested North East Fife in the 1999 Scottish elections, coming second behind Cllr Iain Smith. There was a 5.3 % swing from Lib Dem to Conservative, with the Lib Dem vote falling by 13.4 %, their biggest drop in the election. Recent electoral experience 1999 Scottish Parliament election, Fife North East, 8,526 votes (23.72 %)
	Cllr Megan Harris
	Labour
	Recent electoral experience Councillor in London
	Stewart Stevenson
	Scottish National Party
	Stewart Stevenson is a former Head of Technology Planning with a Scottish Bank. In the May 1999 Scottish parliamentary elections Stewart Stevenson contested Linlithgow where Tam Dalyell had obtained a 10,838 majority in 1997. Mr Stevenson achieved a swing of 9.3 % from Labour to the SNP, reducing Mary Mulligan's majority to 2,928. Stewart Stevenson was selected to succeed Alex Salmond as Westminster candidate for Banff & Buchan. Following Alex Salmond's decision to remain at Westminster, he was selected to fight the by-election for the Scottish Parliamentary seat. Recent electoral experience 1999 Scottish Parliament election, Linlithgow, 12,319 votes (36.5 %)
	Canon Kenyon Wright
	Liberal Democrat
	Canon Kenyon Wright was a leading member of Scottish Constitutional Convention which he claimed had to succeed in order to save the Union with England. He hoped to be elected to Scottish Parliament as Independent but was bitterly disappointed when he took less than 1 % of the vote. Realising that he needed to be a member of a political party in order to be elected, he joined Liberal Democrats, who he saw as being closest to his political beliefs. Recent electoral experience 1999 Scottish Parliament election, West of Scotland list (as Independent), 2,761 votes (0.89 %)