Leadership candidates

Johann LamontMSP for Glasgow Pollok since 1999. Deputy leader since 2008. Age 54. Former history teacher and community worker. Seen as coming from the left of the party. Great friends with Shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran. Fan of country music. Speaks Gaelic.Tom Harris Glasgow MP since 2001. Age 47. Former journalist and press officer. Trained at Napier College. Keen blogger – his was voted the top MPs’ blog in 2009. He has described the Scottish Labour Party as having had “no new ideas in 12 years”.Deputy contendersAnas Sarwar MP for Glasgow Central since succeeding his father in 2010. Age 28. Former NHS dentist. One supporter says: “He is Mr Schmooze – so comfortable meeting and greeting, remembering names and letting people and organisations know they are being listened to.”Lewis MacdonaldMSP for Aberdeen Central 1999-2011 and now list MSP for North East Scotland. Age 54. PhD in African studies. Former lecturer and political researcher. Served as deputy minister in Labour-Lib Dem coalition. Now spokesman on infrastructure and capital investment.Elaine MurrayMSP for Dumfries since 1999. Age 56. Brought up in Edinburgh. Studied at Edinburgh and Cambridge universities. PhD in physical chemistry. Former scientific researcher, Open University lecturer and councillor.Ian Davidson Glasgow MP since 1992. Chair of Commons Scottish affairs committee. Age 61. Former researcher and Strathclyde councillor. Excluded from approved list of Labour candidates for first Scottish elections in 1999. In trouble earlier this year for calling the SNP “neo-fascist”.

Ken Macintosh

MSP for Eastwood since 1999. Education spokesman. Age 49. Former BBC producer. Educated at Royal High and Edinburgh University. His failure to become a minister has been blamed on his “polite, quietly reserved style not entirely in keeping with West of Scotland Labour”.