UK General Election 2010

It's election day in Edinburgh. Edinburgh will be returning five MPs to Westminster. Nominations for candidates at the 2010 General Election closed at 4pm on 20th April. The vote count commences from 10pm in the various halls at Meadowbank Stadium with the announcements being made in Hall 1.

The candidates for Edinburgh constituencies are as follows:

Edinburgh East

• Gary Clark – Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Martin Donald - Scottish Conservative and Unionist
• Sheila Gilmore - Scottish Labour Party
• Robin Harper - Scottish Green Party
• Beverley Hope - Scottish Liberal Democrats
• George Kerevan - Scottish National Party (SNP)

Edinburgh North and Leith

• Willie Black – Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
• Calum Cashley - Scottish National Party (SNP)
• John Hein - Liberal Party in Scotland
• David Jacobsen – Socialist Labour Party
• Katherine Joester - Scottish Green Party
• Kevin Lang - Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Mark Lazarowicz – Scottish Labour Party
• Cameron MacIntyre - Independent
• Iain McGill - Scottish Conservative and Unionist

Edinburgh South

• Steve Burgess - Scottish Green Party
• Sandy Howat - Scottish National Party (SNP)
• Neil Hudson - Scottish Conservative and Unionist
• Fred Mackintosh - Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Ian Murray - Scottish Labour Party

Edinburgh South West

• Caroline Bellamy - Communist League
• Clare Cooney - Scottish Green Party
• Alistair Darling - Scottish Labour Party
• Colin Fox - Scottish Socialist Party
• Timothy McKay - Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Jason Rust - Scottish Conservative and Unionist
• Kaukab Stewart - Scottish National Party (SNP)

Edinburgh West

• Sheena Cleland - Scottish National Party (SNP)
• Mike Crockart - Scottish Liberal Democrats
• Cammy Day - Scottish Labour Party
• Stewart Geddes – Scottish Conservative and Unionist

Previous winners:

1. Edinburgh East Constituency - Gavin Strang, Labour
2. Edinburgh North and Leith Constituency - Marek Lazarowicz, Labour
3. Edinburgh South Constituency - Nigel Griffiths, Labour
4. Edinburgh South West Constituency results - Alistair Darling, Labour
5. Edinburgh West Constituency results - John Barrett, Lib Dems

65% of the electorate in Edinburgh voted in the last general election in 2005.

That's 214,593 out of the total Edinburgh electorate of 328,850.