KEZIA Dugdale will learn this week whether she has succeeded in refreshing Scottish Labour's line-up when the party’s Holyrood list rankings are published.

The Labour leader said last year that she wanted new faces in parliament, signally a clear out of 'deadwood' MSPs unexpectedly elected in 2011.

With the polls suggesting the SNP could win all 73 constituency seats in May, Labour could be wholly reliant on the lists for its MSPs, so the month-long ranking process will be critical.

Voting closes at 5pm tomorrow, with the results due out next weekend.

Only candidates ranked by party members in the top two or three slots have a realistic chance of being elected.

Dugdale and her deputy Alex Rowley automatically take first place on the Lothians and Mid-Scotland & Fife lists respectively, but other lists are near impossible to predict.

Trade unions have been pushing Left candidates behind the scenes.

However the thousands of new members who arrived during Corbynmania joined too late to vote, meaning Left candidates may struggle, despite being in tune with the party mood.

The lists are gender balanced, meaning that if a woman is ranked first, a man is automatically second, a woman third, a man fourth and so on.

In Glasgow, former MP Anas Sarwar is expected to come first, with former leader Johann Lamont and MSP Patricia Ferguson vying for second place.

Holyrood chief whip James Kelly is tipped to come third.

That means Glasgow Provan MSP Paul Martin, who has been at Holyrood since 1999, is at risk at the election, while so-called deadwood MSPs Hanzala Malik and Anne McTaggart appear doomed.

Respected left-winger Neil Findlay, Corbyn’s Scottish campaign manager, may struggle to return to Holyrood if he comes third on the Lothians list behind veteran Sarah Boyack.