Although it has been SNP-held since its inception in 2005, Perth and North Perthshire is a regular Tory target seat.
Thought by many to be a “traditional Tory” area, Pete Wishart won his first election with a narrow 1,500 majority.
That almost trebled at the last election, though, leaving the Nationalist candidate delighted at overcoming determined opposition.
So what will happen this time round?
Former Tory peer Lord Ashcroft rejected the idea of polling the constituency because he thought the idea of anyone gaining seats from the SNP to be too fanciful to be worth the effort.
However, in Alexander Stewart the Conservatives have selected a well-known local face who will work the pavements and try to charm voters into backing him.The candidates* Pete Wishart (SNP) Pete was elected MP for Perth and North Perthshire in 2005 having previously served the old North Tayside constituency from 2001.
He was educated at Queen Anne High School in Dunfermline and Moray House College, Edinburgh. Pete lives in Perth, has one son and enjoys walking in the Perthshire hills.
A former member of rock group Big Country and the iconic Runrig, he is the only MP to have appeared on Top of the Pops.
* Alexander Stewart (Conservative) Born and raised in Perthshire, Alexander has been a councillor in Perth City for 16 years.
His family has been active in the local community for five generations.
After holding senior posts in hotel management and then fashion retail in London, he returned home in 1992 to open his own business in Crieff.
For the last 15 years he has been working for Ark Housing Association at their Perth project.
* Peter Barrett (Lib Dems) Peter has been a Perth and Kinross councillor for more than a decade and has stood as a local candidate for our area in the Scottish Parliament elections in 2003 and 2007 and the UK election in 2010.
He lives in Perth, with his wife Liz who runs her own business.
Before working in politics, Peter was a manager with a national builder’s merchant.
He is an elder at St Matthew’s Church on Tay Street.
* Scott Nicholson (Labour) Scott is a medical researcher who has pledged to support medical research, rights and care for Scots with dementia.
He is also a committee member of the Society for General Microbiology.
He says he wants every young person in Perthshire to have the opportunity to succeed and cites Labour’s pledge to introduce a jobs guarantee, which promises employment, training or an apprenticeship for young people as the solution.
* Louise Ramsay (Green Party) Former convener of the Greens’ branch in Perth, Louise has a degree in social anthropology from Cambridge, and a diploma in counselling from Strathclyde.
She has worked as a manager, fundraiser, art gallery administrator, and counsellor.
A lifelong environmentalist, Louise has campaigned for climate change action, for Alyth to become a climate action town, for wind turbines, and the Tay beavers.
* John Myles (Ukip) No information submitted.
* Xander McDade (Independent) Xander has lived in Pitlochry with his family since he was 10.
He studied for a history and politics degree at Perth College UHI, but suspended his studies to temporarily become his granddad’s full-time carer.
Xander works in the hospitality trade and studies management part-time at Dundee University. He is a member of Pitlochry Highland Games Committee and has served on his local community council since 2011.