Nominations closed today at 4pm for the Scottish Parliamentary Election on 5 May 2011.
One candidate is elected from each constituency. Many of the smaller parties are running solely on Party Lists, with a total of 7 MSPs elected from the Lothian Region.
In order to vote you must be on the electoral register by 15 April.
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 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
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