Jean McGivern Turner is a Scottish medical doctor and former Independent politician. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency from 2003 until 2007.
Michael John Martin,Baron Martin of Springburn,was a Scottish politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. A member of the Labour Party,he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005 and for Glasgow North East until 2009. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000,remaining in the office for nine years until his involuntary resignation in 2009.
Patricia Josephine Ferguson is a Scottish Labour Party politician who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Maryhill constituency from 1999 until 2011 and for Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn from 2011 until 2016.
Glasgow North East is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was first contested at the 2005 general election. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Anne McLaughlin of the SNP who gained the seat from Labour's Paul Sweeney at the 2019 general election.
Scottish Labour,officially the Scottish Labour Party,is the part of the UK Labour Party active in Scotland. Ideologically social democratic and unionist,it holds 22 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 2 of 59 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It is represented by 262 of the 1,227 local councillors across Scotland. The Scottish Labour party has no separate Chief Whip at Westminster.
Kenneth James Gibson is a Scottish politician serving as the Convenor of the Finance and Public Administration Committee since 2021. A member Scottish National Party (SNP),he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Cunninghame North since 2007,having previously represented the Glasgow electoral region from 1999 to 2003.
Paul Martin is a Scottish politician who served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Provan constituency from 2011 to 2016. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,he previously represented Glasgow Springburn from 1999 to 2011.
John Fingland Mason is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Shettleston since 2011.
Anas Sarwar is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party since 2021. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region since 2016,having been Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Central from 2010 to 2015.
Anne McLaughlin is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North East since 2019,and previously from 2015 to 2017. She has been SNP Spokesperson for International Development since 2023.
Ross Thomson is a former Scottish Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 2017 to 2019. Thomson was the first Conservative MP elected for Aberdeen South since the 1992 general election,25 years earlier. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region from May 2016 until June 2017. He was elected to Aberdeen City Council in the 2012 local elections.
The 2021 Scottish Parliament election took place on 6 May 2021,under the provisions of the Scotland Act 1998. All 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament were elected in the sixth election since the parliament was re-established in 1999. The election was held alongside the Senedd election,English local elections,London Assembly and mayoral election and the Hartlepool by-election.
Jennifer Margaret Marra is a Scottish politician who served as convener of the Public Audit Committee. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,she was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region from 2011 to 2021.
The city of Glasgow,located in Scotland,UK,is represented in both the Westminster Parliament in London,and the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood,Edinburgh. At Westminster,it is represented by seven Members of Parliament (MPs),all elected to represent individual constituencies at least once every five years,using the first-past-the-post system of voting. In Holyrood,Glasgow is represented by sixteen MSPs,nine of whom are elected to represent individual constituencies once every five years using first-past-the-post,and seven of whom are elected as additional members,through proportional representation.
The Dundee East by-election was held on 17 July 1952,due to the death in a road accident of the incumbent Labour MP,Thomas Cook. It was won by the Labour candidate George Thomson.
Kirsten Frances Oswald is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician first elected as the Member of the UK Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire in 2015;she was unseated at the 2017 snap election but subsequently re-elected at the 2019 election. She served as the deputy leader of the SNP parliamentary party from 2020 to 2022.
The 2015 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was formally triggered on 16 May 2015 by the resignation of Jim Murphy as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party,which took effect on 13 June 2015,following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election. A new leader and deputy leader would be chosen following the resignations of Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale. In the meantime,former Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray took over as acting leader. On 15 August,Dugdale was elected to lead the party,while Alex Rowley was chosen to become her deputy.
Carol Ann "Annie" Wells is a British politician of the Scottish Conservatives,who served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party to Jackson Carlaw in 2020. She has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region since 2016.
Events from the year 2019 in Scotland.
The February 2020 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election was the fourth internal party election to elect the next leader of the Scottish Conservatives,part of the British Conservative Party and the second-largest political party in the devolved Scottish Parliament. Ruth Davidson,who won the previous leadership election in 2011,resigned on 29 August 2019. Two candidates contested the election:Jackson Carlaw MSP,who served as the Scottish Conservatives' interim leader,and Michelle Ballantyne MSP. Carlaw was seen as the favourite in the contest,and won the endorsement of most of the party's MSPs and MPs. Carlaw won the election on 14 February 2020,winning more than three-quarters of the votes of party members.
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