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What this means: the people elected for this area — local councillors, your constituency MSP, regional list MSPs, and your MP.

In short: Your local councillors for Forth, the constituency MSP, 7 regional list MSPs, the MP, and 3 community councils — plus how to contact them.

How to write

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Who represents you

Snapshot for Forth

SP: Edinburgh Northern · Region: Edinburgh and Lothians East · UK: Edinburgh North and Leith

Local councillors

4 elected for this multi-member ward

  • Cammy Day

    Labour Party · Councillor

    Website

  • Sanne Dijkstra-Downie

    Liberal Democrats · Councillor

    Website

  • Stuart Dobbin

    Scottish National Party (SNP) · Councillor

    Website

  • Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill

    Scottish Green Party · Councillor

    Website

Council directory: All elected members

Constituency MSP

Edinburgh Northern

  • Sanne Dijkstra-DownieConstituency

    Scottish Liberal Democrats · Constituency MSP

    Edinburgh Northern

    Website

Holyrood constituencies are not council wards. MSP names from SPICe Session 7 (29 July 2026).

Regional list MSPs

Edinburgh and Lothians East region · same list for every ward in this region

You have 8 MSPs in total: 1 constituency + 7 regional list. List MSPs cover the whole region, so the same names appear on every ward in Edinburgh and Lothians East.

  • Irshad AhmedList

    Scottish Labour · Regional list MSP

    Edinburgh and Lothians East

    Website

  • Miles BriggsList

    Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party · Regional list MSP

    Edinburgh and Lothians East

    Website

  • Kayleigh Kinross-O'NeillList

    Scottish Green Party · Regional list MSP

    Edinburgh and Lothians East

    Website

  • Q ManivannanList

    Scottish Green Party · Regional list MSP

    Edinburgh and Lothians East

    Website

Full directory: Find your MSP · SPICe Session 7 A–Z (29 July 2026)

Member of Parliament (MP)

Edinburgh North and Leith

  • Tracy GilbertMP

    Labour · Member of Parliament

    Edinburgh North and Leith

    Website

Community councils

Local community voices — independent of the council

Community councils speak for residents on local issues and planning. They are not the same as elected councillors. Active status and own websites come from a 2026-08 national directory research pass — always check before you go.

How people voted

Local ward result · national seats that cover this ward

Scottish local elections 2022

Turnout 42.3% · 10,555 ballots

First-preference votes (STV) · multi-member ward

  • Scottish National Party

    1 seat

    31%

    3,270

  • Scottish Liberal Democrats

    1 seat

    19.7%

    2,077

  • Scottish Labour Party

    1 seat

    18.9%

    1,995

  • Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

    0 seats

    15.1%

    1,594

  • Scottish Green Party

    1 seat

    12.7%

    1,337

  • Scottish Family Party

    0 seats

    1.4%

    152

  • Women's Equality Party

    0 seats

    1.2%

    130

All candidates (8)

  • Sanne DIJKSTRA-DOWNIEElected

    Scottish Liberal Democrats

    2,077

  • Cammy DAYElected

    Scottish Labour Party

    1,995

  • Stuart DOBBINElected

    Scottish National Party

    1,917

  • JIM CAMPBELL

    Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

    1,594

  • Carrie GOOCH

    Scottish National Party

    1,353

  • Kayleigh ONEILLElected

    Scottish Green Party

    1,337

  • LINDA LENORA CAMPBELL

    Scottish Family Party

    152

  • Kerry Elizabeth HEATHCOTE

    Women's Equality Party

    130

Source: Electoral Management Board for Scotland — RO returns May 2022

National elections

Scottish Parliament and UK general elections are counted by constituency, not multi-member ward. Below is the best published result for the seat that covers this ward.

Scottish Parliament election 2026

Edinburgh Northern

Published by Scottish Parliament constituency — not multi-member ward. This is the seat covering this ward.

  • Liberal Democrat

    34.6%

    12,972

  • Scottish National Party

    27.9%

    10,479

  • Scottish Green

    14.1%

    5,289

  • Labour

    10%

    3,744

  • Reform UK

    7.6%

    2,867

  • Conservative

    5.1%

    1,900

  • Workers Party of Britain

    0.7%

    258

Full official result

UK general election 2024

Turnout 63.1%

Edinburgh North and Leith

Published by UK parliamentary constituency — not multi-member ward. This is the seat covering this ward.

  • Labour

    42.1%

    20,805

  • Scottish National Party

    27.4%

    13,537

  • Scottish Green Party

    10.9%

    5,417

  • Liberal Democrat

    7.8%

    3,879

  • Conservative

    6.6%

    3,254

  • Reform UK

    3.7%

    1,818

  • Socialist Labour Party

    0.5%

    227

  • Scottish Family Party

    0.4%

    210

  • Communist Party of Britain

    0.4%

    189

  • Independent

    0.3%

    139

Full official result
Citywide elections & national links

Take action

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Message your councillor, MSP or MP

Local councillors: name and party from Open Council Data UK free 2026 CSV; website links go to the council’s elected-members directory (individual personal sites are not always published). Constituency MSPs: May 2026 winners (BBC) with Scottish Parliament profile links; ward→constituency via NRS Scottish Statistics Postcode Lookup (2026 / SPC 2025 boundaries). MPs: UK Parliament Members API. Regional list MSPs not listed ward-by-ward — use Find your MSP for all 8. Community councils: coming next (public registers vary by council). Regional list MSPs (7 per electoral region) from SPICe Session 7 A–Z; the same list members appear on every ward in that region. Constituency MSP is the single seat MSP for the ward’s area. Community councils from the national SpatialHub boundary amalgamation (each local authority’s register). Mapped to multi-member wards by data-zone centroids inside each community-council boundary (a CC can appear on more than one ward where boundaries overlap). Website links are usually the council’s public community-council register, not always an individual CC site. Active status not consistently published — names shown as supplied by councils. communitycouncils.scot finder blocked from automated use; individual websites can be upgraded later from public pages. Holyrood constituencies and regions are not council wards. MSP names and parties overlay SPICe Session 7 (29 July 2026).

Open Council Data UK councillors (2026) · BBC 2026 Scottish Parliament constituency winners · UK Parliament Members API · MapIt / postcodes.io geography · SPICe Current MSPs A-Z, Session 7, published 29 July 2026