Accountant Patricia Gordon-Pamplin is the United Bermuda Party's candidate for Paget West.

Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin, the shadow Labour and Home Affairs Minister, has been a key UBP figure in the Opposition campaign to highlight the Island's crime problems and to portray the ruling party as soft on criminals. Appointed an Opposition senator in 1998, she entered the House of Assembly by winning the Paget West by-election in March 1999. Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin is a member of the House Audit Committee and Private Bills and Public Accounts Committees.

The daughter of former labour leader Dr. E.F. Gordon, she was educated at Berkeley Institute, before studying accountancy at London College and the City of London Polytechnic. She is a fellow of the Association of Certified Accountants and an Associate of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.

She began her professional career in 1966 with John W. Swan, joining KPMG in 1972, moving to Skandia Insurance in 1984 as vice-president and reinsurance operations manager. She became vice-president and controller of the Belevedere Insurance Company in 1994, and became account manager of Liberty International Management (Bermuda) Ltd in 2001.

Married to Dennis Pamplin in 1993, she has two children, Trevor Mouchette and Karriem Sharrieff. A member of St. Paul's AME Church, she has represented Bermuda's national volleyball team, the Big Blue Machine, and is a member of the Port Royal Tennis Club.