General Election 2024

The Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater was at Saughton Park on Thursday to emphasise that the next UK Government must invest in green spaces in cities.Ms Slater said: "Nature restoration is really important to our rural communities. But it's also important in urban...

Scottish Liberal Democrats select Bruce Wilson for Edinburgh South WestThe Scottish Liberal Democrats have selected Bruce Wilson as their candidate for Edinburgh South West at the forthcoming general election, whenever it is called. It must be called before 28 January 2025 according to parliamentary rules      The former Royal Marines Commando Captain will fight the next General...

Five years ago, the voters of Edinburgh West went to the polls in the UK's last general election in December.Scottish Liberal Democrat Christine Jardine, who had first won the seat in 2017 and was the constituency's MP until Parliament was dissolved for the 2019...

The Returning Officer would like to highlight that the deadline for registering to take part in the UK General Election on 4 July is today. Everyone is asked to ensure that they are on the electoral register and therefore able to take part in the election.  If...

Anas Sarwar opened the Scottish Labour General Election campaign in Edinburgh on Thursday by supporting the party's candidate for Edinburgh North and Leith, Tracy Gilbert.23/5/2024Picture Alan SimpsonScottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar took to the campaign trail to support Scottish Labour candidate for...

SNPThe SNP says that only a vote for the SNP will protect Scotland’s Parliament from what they regard as increasing Westminster power grabs, as Scotland marks the 25th anniversary of the official opening of the Scottish Parliament on Monday.The SNP has challenged Labour to...

Douglas Ross MSP, the Scottish Conservative Leader, has confirmed that if he is elected as an MP at the General Election in July he will step down as an MSP and as the party leader.Mr Ross has been criticised for putting himself in...

Edinburgh South West's voters have chosen to change from SNP to Labour and Scott Arthur is the new MP who will go to Westminster.https://twitter.com/EdinReporter/status/1809167565068832784The results are detailed below:

In Edinburgh West Christine Jardine Liberal Democrat will continue to represent the constituency at Westminster.Ms Jardine was elected at the last three General Elections.The detailed results are here:Ms Jardine increased her majority and there was a huge Liberal Democrat presence at the Election Count...

A lot has changed since the 2019 election, but it is worth looking back at the previous results before tonight's numbers are announced.Deidre Brock of the SNP became the constituency's MP in the SNP landslide of 2015 and successfully defended her position in two...

The deadline for standing as a candidate in the General Election 2024 was 4pm on Friday and this is the official list of candidates in Edinburgh.If your name is below then we want to talk to you - you will be given one...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey and Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP, today officially launched the Scottish party's campaign for the 2024 General Election.The pair held a rally with candidates and activists in North Queensferry, beneath the iconic Forth Bridge, to set...

Alastair Shields is the Scottish Conservatives candidate for Edinburgh West in the July UK election.Here I speak with him about the reasons for his candidacy and the main issues he believes impact the constituency.Mr Shields grew up in West Edinburgh and represented the...

Kayleigh O'Neill is the Scottish Greens candidate for Edinburgh North and Leith.Ms O'Neill was elected as a councillor for Forth Ward in 2022.She works for the Scottish Greens, managing Lorna Slater's office on a part-time basis, but she told The Edinburgh Reporter...

Douglas Ross, Scottish Conservative party leader, and former MP for Moray, has announced he will run as a candidate in the newly created Aberdeenshire North and Moray East constituency.Following a meeting with the former Scottish Secretary, David Duguid and his wife on Wednesday...

Cameron Rose has found his political home in Reform UK for this election.Mr Rose was a Conservative councillor in this part of Edinburgh for 15 years.He said that he has lived in the constituency for more than three decades and knows all...

Given the election betting scandal dominating the news one week out from polling day, I ask Scott Arthur if he’s put any money on himself. But the city councillor and Labour candidate is “not a betting man,” he tells me in-between door knocks in Currie...

The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has called time on his government, announcing a date while standing in the pouring rain outside Downing Street on Wednesday.The next General Election will be held on 4 July 2024.Sunak has been Prime Minister since October 2022 and...

When Rishi Sunak took the stage in Edinburgh on Monday it was a bit of a farewell to Douglas Ross as the Prime Minister thanked him for his leadership and standing up to the SNP both now and in the 2021 Scottish election.Ross has...

The Scottish Green manifesto will, as expected, confirm the position that the party has stated previously on the monarchy and the constitution.The party supports a written constitution and an independent Scottish Republic with an elected head of state.Mr Harvie will tell a campaign event...

Edinburgh’s returning officer has backed calls for a review of the UK’s postal voting system after delays in the distribution of ballots meant some were unable to vote in last week’s election.Paul Lawrence said the process of printing and posting out ballots “needs to...

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has unveiled analysis by his party showing that The Scottish Government’s flagship fuel poverty scheme could take almost a hundred years to reach all eligible households.Speaking at a campaign event at Edinburgh Zoo, he said that one in...

The SNP is set to suffer its worst electoral night in quite some time, says the SNP's Tommy Sheppard.Mr. Sheppard, who represented Edinburgh East since the 2015 SNP landslide in Scotland and was running for the new Edinburgh East and Musselburgh constituency, foresees...

Each party has published a manifesto setting out what it would do if it has enough MPs to govern - and there are also Scotland specific versions.Here you will find links to all of the main parties publications. Just click on the front...

It seemed like a victory lap when Christine Jardine - who has been Liberal Democrat MP for the last two terms - arrived at the Highland Hall at Ingliston around 2.30am.Her supporters already believe that she has held the seat in Edinburgh West...

Tracy Gilbert is the Scottish Labour Candidate for Edinburgh North and Leith.As the Scottish Regional Secretary for the trade union USDAW, she represents more than 37,000 retail and distribution workers in Scotland. An experienced campaigner she fights and wins for workers every day. “I...

Announcing a “green new deal”, The Scottish Greens used Edinburgh’s arts centre at Summerhall to share their pledges on wealth taxes on the one per cent and divestment from fossil fuels.Co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie emphasised the urgency of climate change and the...

David Henry is standing as an independent candidate in Edinburgh West. This Saturday at 12pm he will officially launch his campaign and publish his election address.The campaign will be delivered to around 48,600 households in the next week or so and the message is...