Who's running to represent Edinburgh in the Scottish election?

Nominations closed on Tuesday at 4pm for the Scottish parliamentary elections on 5 May. The candidates for the Edinburgh constituencies are as follows: Edinburgh Eastern Ewan Aitken, Scottish Labour Party and The Co-operative Party Cameron Buchanan, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Kenny MacAskill, Scottish National Party (SNP) Martin Veart, Scottish Liberal Democrats Edinburgh Central Marco Biagi, Scottish National Party (SNP) Sarah Boyack, Scottish Labour Party Alex Cole-Hamilton, Scottish Liberal Democrats Iain McGill, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Malcolm Chisholm, Scottish Labour Party Dan Farthing, Scottish Liberal Democrats Sheila Catriona Dorothy Low, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Shirley-Anne Somerville, Scottish National Party (SNP) Edinburgh Pentlands Simon James Clark, Scottish Liberal Democrats Ricky Henderson, Scottish Labour Party Gordon MacDonald, Scottish National Party (SNP) David William McLetchie, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Edinburgh Southern Gavin Brown, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Jim Eadie, Scottish National Party (SNP) Paul Godzik, Scottish Labour Party and The Co-operative Party Mike Pringle, Scottish Liberal Democrats Edinburgh Western Lesley Hinds, Scottish Labour Party and The Co-operative Party Colin Keir, Scottish National Party (SNP) Gordon John Lindhurst, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Margaret Joy Smith, Scottish Liberal Democrats Lothian list Candidates for the Lothians region have also been confirmed. ALL SCOTLAND PENSIONERS PARTY - Scottish Senior Citizens Party Alex Lawson; David Lawson; Morag Thompson; Anna Kerr; Tommi Kerr BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY David Orr; Leanne Tracy Marshall; Kevin William Doyle; James Alexander Main SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN PARTY "PROCLAIMING CHRIST'S LORDSHIP" - Christians Together Abimbola Olusola Kadara; Mbuli Malanga Aime Lombaya; Bridget Johnson Mosanya; David Peter Rodney Hews SCOTTISH CHRISTIAN PEOPLES ALLIANCE Michael Thomas McGlynn SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY David McLetchie; Gavin Brown; Cameron Buchanan; Gordon Lindhurst; Iain Mcgill; Scott Douglas; Christopher Donnelly; Andrew Hardie; Sheila Low SCOTTISH GREEN PARTY - Alison Johnstone for MSP Alison Johnston; Steve Burgess; Maggie Chapman; Peter Andrew McColl; Shonagh McEwan; Adam Ramsay; Kate Joester SCOTTISH LABOUR PARTY Sarah Boyack; Kezia Dugdale; Neil Findlay; Ann Henderson; Jalal Chaudry; Simon MacFadyen; James Ashe SCOTTISH LIBERAL DEMOCRATS Margaret Joy Smith; Alexander Geoffrey Cole-Hamilton; Gordon Ferguson Mackenzie; John Loughton; Jacqueline Dianne Bell; Daniel Marisco Farthing; Ian James Younger SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY (SNP) - Alex Salmond for First Minister Kenny MacAskill; Fiona Hyslop; Shirley-Anne Somerville; Angela Constance; George Kerevan; Colin Beattie; Alex Orr; Bill Wilson; Gordon MacDonald; Calum Cashley; Jim Eadie; Alasdair Rankin SCOTTISH SOCIALIST PARTY - Independent Socialist Scotland Colin Fox; Catriona Grant; Laura Bennison; Andrew McPake; Alistair Hendry; Barbara Scott SOCIALIST LABOUR PARTY - David Don Jacobsen; Michael Lynch; Linda Sheridan; Barbara Ann Bryan SOLIDARITY – SCOTLAND'S SOCIALIST MOVEMENT - SOLIDARITY Patricia Joan Smith; Ian Drummond; Vanesa Fuertes; Willie Black; Jack Fraser; Shirley Margaret Gibb; Anne Edmonds; Adrian Stuart Cannon THE LIBERAL PARTY - Liberal Party - Against Coalition Cut Backs John Hein UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY (UKIP) Otto Inglis; Gordon Norrie; Alistair Forrest; Gavin Clark; Alastair MacIntyre Independents Mev Brown David John Hogg Margo MacDonald Ken O'Neill