Christine Jardine selected to fight Aberdeenshire East for Holyrood election

Christine jardineChristine Jardine put up one hell of a fight against Alex Salmond in the Gordon constituency this year. She got 1500 more votes than Malcolm Bruce had 5 years earlier and is in a very clear second place to challenge the SNP in the future.

She has now been selected to fight the Aberdeenshire East constituency in May next year for the Scottish Parliament.

The Ellon Times has the story:

A delighted Christine said: “Its very humbling to know that people are prepared to put their faith in you. I had a lot of support in the general election – 19,030 votes – and, while it’s clear we have a lot of work to do, I know those people, and the many others who have joined the party, are looking to us to repair the health service, improve education and protect jobs.

I am determined that the next Scottish Government will give us here in the North East a better deal on health, education, housing and more.

I’m a Liberal. I believe politics is not about nations or states it’s about people, about individuals and should always put them first.

Nobody should have to travel to another town to find a GP, or to the central belt for an operation or wonder if their child will have a teacher when the term resumes.

Those are the things I want to change. That I will work to change and I will ask the electorate to help by making me their next MSP.

Now that Salmond is back at Westminster, he will be standing down as MSP so the SNP lose the benefit of incumbency and have to stand on their own record in Government.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings

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11 Comments

  • Simon McGrath 26th Aug '15 - 4:59pm

    Good to see that excellent women can get selected without needing women only short-lists

  • Vote % %change
    SNP Alex Salmond 19,533 64.50 +19.83
    Liberal Democrats Alison McInnes 4,238 13.99 -16.58
    Conservative Geordie Burnett Stuart 4,211 13.90 -1.88
    Labour Peter Smyth 2,304 7.61 -0.44 2,209 7.29

    The result in 2011, think it would be a miracle if not impossible to get anywhere near the SNP

  • Very best of luck to her. It would have been easy to lose heart after May.

  • Richard Underhill 26th Aug '15 - 10:28pm

    David Wallace 26th Aug ’15 – 9:01pm What party do you support?

  • Jane Ann Liston 26th Aug '15 - 11:38pm

    Er, nonsense, Mr Wallace! You are talking (deliberately?) as though Scotland were a single first-past the post constituency. In Aberdeenshire East, from the result in May, it is clear that it will be either Christine or the Nationalist who wins the constituency seat.

  • I wish Christine good luck because the polls indicate a total wipe-out of Lib Dems and another SNP tsunami probably doing a job on Scottish Labour as well even Kezia Dugdales seat looks dodgy .

  • Richard Underhill 27th Aug '15 - 2:31pm

    David Wallace 27th Aug ’15 – 7:37am https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cista
    In the October 2013 reshuffle, Baker was appointed to the Home Office as Minister of State, overseeing issues relating to national security, replacing fellow Liberal Democrat Jeremy Browne. In this role he repeatedly suggested changes to drug policy, saying that patients should have access to cannabis for cancer pain relief and multiple sclerosis and that in some cases legal highs might be better off regulated than prohibited. The Home Office repeatedly rejected progressive suggestions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Baker
    Please bearin mind that the number of MPs we had in the Commons was not proportionate to the votes we received in 2010. Tories then argued proportionality according to the number of MPs elected. We will continue to push for a more accurate reflection of the preferences of voters.

  • David Evans 29th Aug '15 - 6:00pm

    An excellent candidate who worked phenomenally hard along with the rest of the team in Gordon. The stand that Lib Dems like her take against the instinctive authoritarianism of the Scot Nats meant she could build on the fact that we were clearly the only party that could take on the SNP in the constituency. She will need and deserves that support again from all the Lib Dems there so we can have a successful campaign in Aberdeenshire East and maintain or preferably improve our second place and continue to be the clear choice as the local champions for the community.

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