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Former leader of Aberdeen City Council (2014-2022). Returning to frontline politics as Labour's candidate for Aberdeen Central.

Standing for Labour in Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Aberdeen councillor and long-serving NHS worker with 30 years' experience in the health service.

NHS worker with more than 25 years' service. Vice chair of the Grampian health branch of Unison.

Aberdeen city councillor for Kingswells, Sheddocksley and Summerhill. Education background.

Standing for Labour Party in Airdrie. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Technology consultant with over 18 years in the sector. Co-operative Party member and Community Trade Union member. Serves on West Calder Community Centre management committee.

Standing for Labour Party in Angus North and Mearns. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Labour councillor for Monifieth and Sidlaw ward on Angus Council. Serves on education, housing, and policy committees.

NHS doctor based in Oban working in rural and remote medicine. BMA and Royal College of GPs representative. Holds a PhD.

Labour councillor for Ayr East on South Ayrshire Council. Former Labour group leader on the council.

East Lothian councillor and Scottish Parliament researcher. MA from the University of St Andrews. Chair of Lothian Young Labour.

Former French and Spanish teacher (Cambridge graduate). Now works as researcher for Michael Marra MSP at the Scottish Parliament.

Lewisham councillor and former Holyrood researcher for Highland Labour MSPs. Stood in the 2024 general election in Caithness.

Labour MSP for South Scotland since May 2021. A registered dietician for 17 years in the NHS before entering politics, she grew up in Ayrshire and attended Auchinleck Academy. She serves as Scottish Labour's Shadow Minister for Mental Wellbeing, Women's Health and Sport.

Qualified accountant with over 25 years' experience as a business leader and board director across manufacturing, energy, and financial services.

Long-standing Labour candidate in East Dunbartonshire, having stood for the Westminster seat at the 2017 and 2019 UK general elections and for Strathkelvin and Bearsden at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. He was also a candidate in Lenzie and Kirkintilloch South at the 2022 East Dunbartonshire council election.

South Lanarkshire councillor for Clydesdale West since 2012. Chair of education on the council. First councillor in Scotland to take family leave.

Former Head of Communications at Citizens Advice Scotland and Bureau Manager at Coatbridge Citizens Advice for over 10 years.

Two decades of experience in the voluntary sector supporting communities and championing social justice. Grew up in Kirkcaldy, lives in Burntisland.

Labour councillor for Cumbernauld South on North Lanarkshire Council, elected 2022.

Secretary of the Save Ardrossan Harbour campaign group. 20 years' experience in social care, street fundraising and horticulture.

Former MP for North Ayrshire and Arran (2005-2015) and Labour MSP for West Scotland since 2021. Created Baroness Clark of Kilwinning in 2020. Shadow Minister for Community Safety.

Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party since 2020 and MSP for Dumbarton since 1999, making her the only Scottish Labour MSP to have held their constituency seat continuously since the Parliament's creation. Before entering politics she worked in local government in community economic development. She has twice served as acting leader of Scottish Labour.

Labour councillor for Lochar ward on Dumfries and Galloway Council. Former Prison Governor with the Scottish Prison Service.

Operational director for children's charity Action for Children. Placed second in Arbroath and Broughty Ferry at the 2024 general election.

Labour MSP for North East Scotland since 2021. Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance. Former Dundee city councillor and adviser to Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray.

Standing for Labour in Dunfermline. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Leader of South Lanarkshire Council. Lifelong East Kilbride resident and councillor for East Kilbride Central North since 2017. Strathclyde University graduate.

Labour MSP for South Scotland since 2021. Former MP for East Lothian (2017-2019). Convener of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. Former primary school teacher and solicitor.

Former Scottish organiser for the Labour Party. Currently Head of Office and Research at the House of Commons.

Standing for Labour in Edinburgh Central. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Director of the Scottish Fabians. Head of Office to Chris Murray MP. Author of Fabian pamphlets on devolution and social security reform.

NHS doctor for over a decade. Entering politics to address systemic healthcare problems.

Standing for Labour in Edinburgh North Western. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

PhD graduate, qualified primary teacher, and carer for her disabled daughter. Professional caseworker focused on NHS and social care.

Lawyer for 30 years, most recently a competition lawyer. Parents were lifelong Labour activists.

Labour MSP for Edinburgh Southern since 2016. Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Business and Fair Work. Former Accenture management consultant. Publicly disclosed his ADHD diagnosis in 2017.

Unison branch secretary standing for Labour in Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire.

Falkirk councillor for Upper Braes since 2022. Social worker for two decades. Has campaigned to encourage more women into politics.

Former City of Edinburgh councillor for Morningside. Former press and policy adviser at the Scottish Parliament.

Journalist, NHS worker and leading menopause campaigner. Named Big Issue Changemaker in 2023. Former first female Night Editor of The Scotsman.

Former diplomat who worked across four continents in three languages, with community organising experience including establishing a church food bank and helping secure 115 cooperative homes. Standing for Scottish Labour in Galloway and West Dumfries.

Glasgow city councillor for Victoria Park since 2022. Passed the 'Get Me Home Safely' motion for safe transport for late-night hospitality workers.

One of Scotland's longest-serving Labour MSPs, first elected for Glasgow Kelvin in 1999. Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Justice. Former NUS Scotland President.

Leader of the Scottish Labour Party since 2021 and the first Muslim leader of a major UK political party. A Glasgow-born dentist by training, Sarwar served as MP for Glasgow Central (2010-2015) before becoming an MSP for the Glasgow region in 2016. He led Scottish Labour to its strongest Westminster result in a decade at the 2024 general election.

Former President of NUS Scotland (2015-2017), the first woman in the role since 2004. Head of Office for Labour MP Graeme Downie.

Labour MSP for Glasgow since 2021. Former MP for Glasgow North East (2017-2019). Won 'Community MSP of the Year' in 2022 for work on the drugs death crisis.

Standing for Labour in Glasgow Kelvin and Maryhill. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Leader of the Labour group on Glasgow City Council. Councillor for Greater Pollok since 2012. First BAME leader of Glasgow Labour group. Data analyst at BAE Systems.

Labour MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse since June 2025, elected at the by-election triggered by the death of Christina McKelvie. Raised in the South Lanarkshire mining village of Quarter.

Standing for Labour in Inverclyde. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Shaun Alexander Fraser is an Inverness-born self-employed artist and former homelessness prevention worker for the local charity New Start Highland. He stood for Labour in Na h-Eileanan an Iar at Holyrood 2021 (2nd of 5) and on the Highlands and Islands regional list, and in Highland Council local elections in 2017 and 2022.

Standing for Labour in Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Labour MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife since 2007. Convener of the Economy and Fair Work Committee. Has held multiple shadow cabinet roles including Education and Rural Affairs.

Standing for the Labour Party in Mid Fife and Glenrothes. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Senior parliamentary advisor to Mark Griffin MSP, with a professional background in housing policy. She has previously worked as a constituency assistant to Jayne Baxter MSP and as a senior researcher in Scottish Labour's Central Policy Unit, and is a parent raising children in Midlothian.

Economist standing for Labour in Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale. Says voters across the constituency raise concerns about GP access, potholes, public transport and care for older people, and credits Labour policies with giving his family the security to attend university.

Tree surgeon based in Moray standing for Scottish Labour. Says he wants the Scottish Government to use the full powers of devolution across taxation, land reform and public ownership of renewables, with priorities on better public services, climate action and fairer wealth distribution.

Councillor on North Lanarkshire Council and founder of the Health and Wellness Hub, a Motherwell-based social enterprise she set up in 2012. She has chaired the North Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board and the council's Community and Voluntary Sector Partnership group, and was named in the WISE 100 list of Women in Social Enterprise in 2019.

Standing for Labour in Na h-Eileanan an Iar. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Standing for Labour in Orkney Islands. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Labour MSP for the West Scotland region since 2011 and the party's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture. A Renfrewshire native, Bibby was a councillor on Renfrewshire Council before being elected to Holyrood. He previously chaired both Young Labour UK and Scottish Labour Students.

Standing for the Labour Party in Perthshire North. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Standing for Labour in Perthshire South and Kinross-shire. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Retired consultant surgeon with over 27 years at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, standing for Scottish Labour in Renfrewshire North and Cardonald with a focus on the NHS.

Labour MSP for West Scotland region since 2021. Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Equalities. Now standing as the constituency candidate for Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley.

Labour MSP for Central Scotland since 2016. Legislated the Period Products Act 2021, making Scotland the first country to guarantee free access to period products. Contested the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership.

Standing for Labour in Shetland Islands. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Scottish Labour candidate for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch. Frames the election as a chance to choose a new direction for the Highlands and for Scotland, focusing on education standards, jobs, housing shortages and mental health services.

Standing for Labour in Stirling. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Standing for Labour in Strathkelvin and Bearsden. We have not identified independent biographical sources for this candidate beyond the party listing.

Labour MSP for Central Scotland since 2011. Was the youngest MSP in history at election aged 25. Former North Lanarkshire councillor and trained mechanical engineer.