John Ramsay Swinney is a Scottish politician who has served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland since 2014 and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery since 2021. He was the Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2000 to 2004. He served as Education Secretary from 2016 to 2021 and as Finance Secretary from 2007 to 2016. Swinney has also served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Perthshire North since 2011,having previously represented North Tayside from 1999 to 2011.
James Alexander Stewart Stevenson is a Scottish politician who served as Minister for Transport,Infrastructure and Climate Change from 2007 to 2010 and Minister for Environment and Climate Change from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Banffshire and Buchan Coast,formerly Banff and Buchan,from 2001 to 2021.
Patricia Marwick is a Scottish politician who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2011 to 2016. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2016. Elected as a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she suspended her membership in 2011 upon her election as presiding officer,following the tradition of the presiding officer being nonpartisan.
Catherine Mary Jamieson is a Scottish business director,currently a director at Kilmarnock Football Club and former politician. She served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2000 to 2008. She previously served in the Scottish Executive as Minister for Justice from 2003 to 2007 and Minister for Education and Young People from 2001 to 2003. Jamieson was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Carrick,Cumnock and Doon Valley from 1999 to 2011 and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 2010 to 2015.
William Cowan Rennie,commonly known as Willie Rennie,is a Scottish politician who served as the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2011 to 2021. He has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Fife since 2016,and previously as a list MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife.
Scotland has elections to several bodies:the Scottish Parliament,the United Kingdom Parliament,local councils and community councils. Before the United Kingdom left the European Union,Scotland elected members to the European Parliament.
The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday,5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.
The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the third general election to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999. Local elections in Scotland fell on the same day.
Jim Tolson is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician,and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dunfermline West from 2007 until 2011.
Keith James Brown is a Scottish politician serving as Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2018 and Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans since 2021. He is a former Royal Marines commando and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 2007,first representing the Ochil constituency from 2007 to 2011,then the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency since 2011.
Shirley-Anne Somerville is a Scottish politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills since 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dunfermline since 2016,having previously served as an additional member for the Lothians region from 2007 to 2011.
Dunfermline is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Fife. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Marco Biagi is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He served as the Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment from 2014 to 2016,and as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Edinburgh Central from 2011 to 2016. From 2022,he serves as councillor for the Colinton/Fairmilehead ward.
Jim Eadie is a Scottish politician who was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Southern constituency 2011–2016. In 2021 he joined the Alba Party.
Alexander Andrew Penman Rowley is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2015 to 2017 and acting leader of the party from August to November 2017. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 2014,firstly for the Cowdenbeath constituency and for the Mid Scotland and Fife region since 2016. He has been described as being on the political left of the party.
Events from the year 2013 in Scotland.
The Dunfermline by-election,2013 is a by-election that was held for the Scottish Parliament constituency of Dunfermline on 24 October 2013. It followed the resignation of its MSP,Bill Walker after he was convicted of 23 charges of assault.
Cara Laura Hilton is a Scottish Labour politician,who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Dunfermline from 2013 to 2016.
Douglas Chapman is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife since the 2015 general election. He is the SNP's Small Business,Enterprise and Innovation spokesperson.
Jennifer Madeleine Gilruth is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Fife and Glenrothes since 2016. She has served in the Scottish Government as Minister for Transport since January 2022,having previously been a junior Minister for Europe and International Development from 2020 to 2022.
