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Charles Ferguson
(Also number 6 on West of Scotland list) |
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| Conservative & Unionist |
Charles Ferguson was educated at St. Brides High School in East Kilbride and the University of Dundee where he graduated with an LLB Honours. He runs his own business as a Solicitor Advocate and has the Right of Audience before the High Court of Justiciary, Court of Appeal and Privy Council in Criminal matters. He is a frmer Chairman of Hamilton North Tories and was Tory spokesman on Law & Order in the run up to the 1999 Scottish election and was chairman of the Scottish Conservative Lawyer Criminal Committee. He was the Tory candidate in the 1999 Hamilton South by-election, coming fourth, and in the 2001 Strathkelvin & Bearsden election, coming fifth. He is married with six children.
Recent electoral experience.
2003 Scottish parliament election, Hamilton North & Bellshill, 2,625 votes (10.85 %)
2003 Scottish parliament election, Fourth on Tory Central Scotland list, 24,121 votes (9.17 %)
2002 South Lanarkshire Council by-election, Whitehill, 33 votes (5.57 %)
2001 Scottish parliament by-election, Strathkelvin & Bearsden, 5,037 votes (12.10 %)
1999 Hamilton South by-election, 1,406 votes (7.23 %)
1999 Scottish parliament election, Third on Tory West of Scotland list, 48,666 votes (15.68 %)
1999 Scottish parliament election, Strathkelvin & Bearsden, 6,934 votes (16.36 %)
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Ross Finnie MSP
(Also number 1 on West of Scotland list) |
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| Liberal Democrat |
Ross Finnie was born on the 11 the February 1947 in Greenock and was educated at Greenock Academy. He worked as an Audit Assistant Arthur Anderson & Co., in Glasgow from 1970 to 1973 ad then as a Manager of Corporate Finance for the British Bank of Commerce Ltd from 1973 to 1974. He then became a Manager of Corporate Finance for James Findlay Bank Ltd (Glasgow) from 1974 to 1978 and from 1978 to 1986 he was Director of Corporate Finance. He then became Local Director for Glasgow Corporate Finance Singer & Friedlander Ltd from 1986 to 1991 and in 1991 until his election as an MSP he was a Chartered Accountant at his own company, Ross Finnie & Co (Chartered Accountant & Corporate Finance Advisers). He was also a Non-executive Director for Boko Holdings Ltd, Mico Ltd and Systems Reliability Scotland Ltd from 1992 to 1999. He was a Liberal Inverclyde District Cllr from 1977 to 1996 and an Inverclyde Cllr from 1995 until 1999. Finnie was also chair of the Scottish Liberals from 1982 until 1986. Ross Finnie is the only Executive Minister to have held the same position (Rural Affairs/Development) since 1999 - with the addition of the Environment when Dr Sam Galbraith resigned. In November 2005, the Sunday Herald reveals that his wife, Phylis Finnie had signed over her rights to an Edinburgh property in order to allow her husband to claim £2,500 in mortgage interest payments.
Ministerial positions
May 1999 - November 2001- Minister for Rural Affairs
October 2000 - March 2001 - Minister for Rural Development
March 2001 - Minister for Environment & Rural Development
Recent electoral experience.
2003 Scottish Parliament election, Greenock & Inverclyde, 6,665 votes (28.03 %)
2003 Scottish Parliament election, First on LibDem West of Scotland list, 31,580 votes (12.28 %) (elected)
1999 Scottish Parliament election, Greenock & Inverclyde, 7,504 votes (26.20 %)
1999 Scottish Parliament election, First on LibDem West of Scotland list, 34,095 votes (10.98 %) (elected)
1995 Inverclyde Council election, Ward 17, 1,176 votes (62.42 %) (elected)
1992 Inverclyde District Council election, (elected)
1988 Inverclyde District Council election, (elected)
1984 Inverclyde District Council election, (elected)
1983 Westminster election, Stirling, 10,174 votes (23.88 %)
1980 Inverclyde District Council election, (elected)
1979 Westminster election, West Renfrewshire, 7,256 votes (11.43 %)
1977 Inverclyde District Council election, (elected)
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Stuart McMillan
(Also number 5 on West of Scotland list) |
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| Scottish National Party |
Stuart is the Organiser and Press Officer of the Greenock and Inverclyde SNP and has been a member of the party for over 14 years. He initially joined the Greenock and Inverclyde SNP then left to become one of the founder members of the current Port Glasgow branch. Stuart was also a founder member of the Dundee Young Scottish Nationalists whilst studying in Dundee and was an active member of the Abertay Nationalists.
Stuart was born in Barrow in Furness in 1972, graduated with an MBA (European) from the University of Abertay Dundee in 1997 and was married in 2003. After graduating, Stuart began employment with IBM UK Ltd., then left to work for the SNP group in Westminster before returning to Scotland to be the Office Manager for Bruce McFee MSP in 2003. He stood as the SNP candidate in Inverclyde in the 2005 Westminster election. Stuart helped increase the SNP vote by 5.6%, took the SNP vote up to second from third and achieved a 2.5% from Labour to the SNP.
Stuart is a keen piper and currently plays with the London Scottish Pipes and Drums who regularly play in other European countries as well as in London.
Recent electoral experience
2005 Westminster election, Inverclyde, 7,059 votes (19.56 %)
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Duncan McNeill MSP
(Not standing on West of Scotland list) |
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| Labour |
Duncan McNeil was born on the 7 th September 1950 in Greenock and educated at Mount School in Greenock and Reid Kerr College in paisley. He worked as an apprentice then as a shipbuilder at Cartsdyke Shipyard from 1966 until 1979. He then worked in unemployed worker's centres from 1979 until 1981 and then became a full time GMB Officer from 1981 until his election as an MSP in 1999. He was a Labour Whip in the 1999 session. In the parliament he is Convener of the Cross-Party Group on Young People in Scotland Not in Education, Employment or Training.
Parliamentary Positions
Member of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body
Ministerial Positions
None
Recent electoral experience
2003 Scottish Parliament election, Greenock & Inverclyde, 9,674 votes (40.68 %) (elected)
1999 Scottish Parliament election, Greenock & Inverclyde, 11,817 votes (41.26 %) (elected)
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