The Scottish Labour Party has published its list of candidates for the West Scotland list ahead of this May’s Scottish Parliament election.
Dumbarton and the Vale's MSP, Jackie Baillie, tops the list thanks to being the party's deputy leader.
Current West of Scotland Neil Bibby came top of the member's ballot and is second on the list while former North Ayrshire and Arran MP Katy Clark took the third spot.
Former West Dunbartonshire provost and current Labour councillor Douglas McAllister is in eighth place on the list, while Dumbarton resident Gurpreet Singh Johal, whose brother, Jagtar, has been held without trial in an Indian prison since December 2017, is at number 10.
Scottish Labour currently has three MSPs in the region, including Mr Bibby. The other two, Mary Fee and presiding officer Ken Macintosh, are both standing down at the end of the current session.
The number of candidates who secure a place at Holyrood via the regional list will depend on the share of the vote in the West Scotland region, which stretches from Loch Lomond and the Rest and Be Thankful in the north to Irvine in the south, and from the island of Arran in the west to Kirkintilloch in the east.
Ms Baillie, who has been the constituency MSP for Dumbarton since the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999, retained the seat in 2016 with a majority of just 109 votes over the SNP's Gail Robertson.
This time her SNP constituency opponent is Toni Giugliano, who fought Edinburgh Western for the SNP at the last Holyrood poll.
Current West Scotland list MSP Maurice Corry, who lives in Helensburgh, is the Conservatives' candidate in Dumbarton.
The full Labour ranking for the West Scotland region is:
- Jackie Baillie
- Neil Bibby
- Katy Clark
- Paul O’Kane
- Johanna Baxter
- Mat Kerr
- Francesca Brennan
- Douglas McAllister
- Katie Pragnell
- Gurpreet Singh Johal
- Ed O’Grady
- Nairn McDonald
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