Labour's Holyrood election campaign has suffered further woes after it emerged that crowd-funding for candidates has struggled to secure donations.
The Daily Mail reported that one candidate has failed to raise any funds through crowd-funding, while three other campaigns have received less than £100.
The party's Perth and Kinross, and Linlithgow branches have raised £60 and £90 respectively.
The totals trail behind Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, currently the most successful Scottish candidate on crowdfunder, who has raised more than £6,500 for her Edinburgh Central campaign.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has received £5,850 for her campaign to hold her Glasgow Southside seat.
The news is a further blow to Labour who are trying to get their election campaign back on track after leader Kezia Dugdale's comments on independence.
Crowd-funding has become a popular way for prospective MSPs to raise additional funds for their election campaign. Candidates also have access to central funds from their parties.
Other successful crowd-funders include Alison Dickie (SNP), Alison Johnstone (Scottish Greens) and Labour candidates Daniel Johnson, who has raised nearly £1,600, and Ken Macintosh, who has received over £1,200.
Ms Dugdale's campaign for Edinburgh Eastern has reached £1,085.
The figures all relate to campaigns on www.crowdfunder.co.uk and candidates may have held other events to raise funds in their local area.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel