2006 Moray by-election

September 2017 September 2017 2006 Moray by-election Scotland parliamentary no 27 April 2006 2003 Scottish Parliament election 2003 2007 Scottish Parliament election 2007 45.7% (0.6 pp) Richard Lochhead Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Environment (1).jpg Scottish National Party 12,653 46.15% 3.95 pp MaryScanlonMSP20110509.JPG Mary Scanlon Scottish Conservatives 6,268 22.86% 0.35 pp Linda Gorn Scottish Liberal Democrats 5,310 19.37% 7.20 pp Sandy Keith Scottish Labour 2,696 9.83% 9.28 pp Moray MSP Margaret Ewing Scottish National Party Richard Lochhead Scottish National PartyA 2006 by-election for the Moray constituency in the Scottish Parliament was held on 27 April 2006 following the death of the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) Margaret Ewing on 21 March 2006, from breast cancer.http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=487242006 Reid names day for Holyrood by-election in Moray seat The Scotsman 2006-03-30 2006-03-30 The seat was successfully defended by the SNP's Richard Lochhead, increasing the majority over the Scottish Conservative Party by 1073 votes. Margaret Ewing had held the Holyrood seat since its creation in 1999, having previously represented the Moray constituency as a Westminster Member of Parliament (MP) since the 1987 United Kingdom general election. She had already announced that she would not be contesting the seat in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4830140.stm SNP veteran Margaret Ewing dies BBC News 2006-03-21 2006-03-21 Result Moray by-election 2006http://www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file46923.pdf Election of Member to serve in the Scottish Parliament for the Moray constituency 2006-04-28 2006-05-12 PDF https://web.archive.org/web/20060524230812/http://www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file46923.pdf 2006-05-24 Scottish National Party Richard Lochhead 12,653 46.15 +3.95 Scottish Conservative Party Mary Scanlon 6,268 22.86 +0.35 Scottish Liberal Democrats Linda Gorn 5,310 19.37 +7.20 Scottish Labour Party Sandy Keith 2,696 9.83 -9.28 NHS First Party Melville Brown 493 1.80 New 6,385 23.29 +3.6 27,420 45.7 -0.6 Scottish National Party +1.8 Notes on candidates Richard Lochhead defended the seat for the Scottish National Party.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4949432.stm SNP's joy at by-election victory BBC News BBC 28 April 2006 18 September 2013 An additional-member MSP for the North East Scotland electoral region since 1999, he had already been selected to contest the seat for the SNP at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, beating the incumbent's sister-in-law, former MP Annabelle Ewing.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4581640.stm Salmond closer to Holyrood return BBC BBC News 4 January 2006 18 September 2013 He resigned his list seat to stand in the by-election. Mary Scanlon, a Conservative MSP for the Highlands and Islands region (which includes Moray), resigned from her list seat to fight as the Conservative candidate. Any sitting MSP intending to fight the by-election must first resign their current seat under section 9 of the Scotland Act. The Labour candidate was Elgin councillor Sandy Keith. He saw his party's vote share fall in the by-election, resulting in increases for all the other parties. The Liberal Democrat candidate was Linda Gorn, came fourth when she fought the seat in 2003 but improved her performance substantially in the by-election, moving to third place not far behind the Conservative candidate and increasing her share of the vote more than any other candidate. The Scottish Socialist Party announced that they would not be entering a candidate.http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=520952006 Four-way Moray by-election battle begins The Scotsman Louise Gray 2006-04-05 2006-04-06 They decided that they, in common with the Scottish Green Party, will concentrate on campaigning for regional list votes (Additional member system) at the next 2007 Scottish Parliament election. Melville Brown, a former Conservative Party candidate for Edinburgh East, stood for the NHS First Party, the first time the party has contested an election. Brown is the party chairman.https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4897542.stm Five candidates to contest Moray 2006-04-10 2006-04-11 BBC News 2003 election result 2003 Scottish Parliament election: Moray https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2003/scottish_parliament/html/411.stm BBC NEWS - VOTE 2003 2006-03-21 BBC News Scottish National Party Margaret Ewing 11,384 42.2 +3.4 Scottish Conservative Party Tim Wood 6,072 22.5 −3.1 Scottish Labour Party Peter Peacock 5,157 19.1 −7.4 Scottish Liberal Democrats Linda Gorn 3,283 12.2 +3.1 Scottish Socialist Party Norma Anderson 1,085 4.0 New 5,312 19.7 +7.4 26,981 46.3 Scottish National Party +3.3 Campaign controversies The Conservative Party became embroiled in a row with two local independent councillors. Handwritten notes were sent out in their wards allegedly from the councillors, but the councillors subsequently denied having given permission for the letters to be used.http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=572382006 Police urged to investigate 'dishonest and deceitful' Tory election tactics The Scotsman Frank Urquhart 2006-04-15 2006-04-15 The following week, a local newspaper, the Northern Scot, reported the Liberal Democrats to the Electoral Commission for attributing quotes in leaflets to the newspaper itself rather than to the specific Liberal Democrats whom the paper had been quoting.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/4930672.stm Newspaper takes election action BBC BBC News 21 April 2006 18 September 2013 Both of the above were given widespread coverage in the Northern Scot newspaper. In the final week of the by-election, Robbie Rowantree, the Conservative Party candidate for the neighbouring UK Parliament constituency of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey in the 2005 general election, announced he was joining the Liberal Democrats.http://icdunbartonshire.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news/tm_objectid%3D16987387%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D78846%26headline%3Dtory-defector-hits-out-at-party-name_page.html Tory defector hits out at party icDunbartonshire 2006-04-24 2006-04-24 18 July 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110718234409/http://icdunbartonshire.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news/tm_objectid%3D16987387%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D78846%26headline%3Dtory-defector-hits-out-at-party-name_page.html dead See also Elections in Scotland List of by-elections to the Scottish Parliament References External links Scottish Election Results 1997 - present Moray by-election Moray by-election Moray by-election, 2006 Moray 2006 Category:Politics of Moray Category:21st century in Moray Moray by-election Category:April 2006 elections