Scottish Youth Parliament Candidates for Highland

Two Highland candidates have been automatically elected to the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) while another nine will be vying for four further places when voting takes place on-line between Monday 26 March and Friday 30 March.

There will be no contest in Caithness Sutherland and Easter Ross.  The two candidates nominated are automatically elected. They are Alexander MacLeod, Tain and Siobhan MacLeod, Kinlochbervie.

In Ross, Skye and Lochaber, five candidates are challenging for two places on the Scottish Youth Parliament.  The candidates are: - Carlen Barker, Fort William; Anne Marie MacRae, Portree; Michelle  MacDougall, Fort William; Sunny Moodie, Dingwall and Gillian Elizabeth Slider, Ullapool.

Four candidates are contesting the Inverness and Badenoch seat. They are: Kasia Gniade, Inverness; Phi MacDonald,  Inverness; Aileen Macrae, Inverness and Jessica Sweeney, Inverness.

Information about the candidates is posted on the Young Scot web site www.youngscot.org/highland.

Voting on line runs from Monday 26 March until 9 am on Friday 30 March. The results should be known at noon on Friday 30 March.

Voters, aged 12 -25 , need to have a High Life – Young Scot card to be eligible to vote.

For further information:  Please contact the Council’s Senior Youth Development Officer, Mike Jones, 01463 702067