John David Cairns was a Scottish politician who served as Minister of State for Scotland from 2005 to 2008. A member of Scottish Labour Party,he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverclyde,formerly Greenock and Inverclyde,from 2001 until his death in 2011.
Glasgow East is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament,located in the city of Glasgow,Scotland. It elects one Member of Parliament at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting. It is currently represented by David Linden of the Scottish National Party (SNP) who has been the MP since 2017.
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. McLaughlin herself previously represented the seat from 2015-17,when she lost the seat to Labour,but regained the seat at the 2019 general election and has represented the constituency ever since.
Inverclyde is a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It replaced Greenock and Inverclyde and the Port Glasgow and Kilmacolm areas from West Renfrewshire for the 2005 general election.
Paisley and Renfrewshire South is a constituency of the House of Commons,located in Renfrewshire,Scotland to the southwest of Glasgow. It elects one Member of Parliament at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.
East Renfrewshire is a constituency of the House of Commons,to the south of Glasgow,Scotland. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post system of voting.
Cunninghame North is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of North Ayrshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the ten constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Dumbarton is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering parts of the council areas of Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the ten constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Stuart McMillan is a Scottish politician serving as Convener of the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee since 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Greenock and Inverclyde since 2016,having previously represented the West of Scotland region from 2007 to 2016.
James Clews Cowan was a Scottish football goalkeeper who played for St Mirren,Morton,Sunderland,Third Lanark and the Scotland national team.
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.
On 30 June 2011,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Inverclyde. It was triggered by the death of the incumbent Labour MP,David Cairns on 9 May 2011 of acute pancreatitis.
Iain McKenzie is a Scottish Labour Party politician,who was formerly the Member of Parliament for Inverclyde. He was elected at the June 2011 by-election,and stood unsuccessfully for re-election in the 2015 general election.
Christopher Charles Stephens is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow South West since the 2015 general election. He has been serving as SNP Spokesperson for Levelling Up since December 2022.
Alan Brown is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun since 2015. Brown is the SNP Energy spokesperson in the House of Commons.
John Joseph McNally is a Scottish politician who was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk in 2015. He is a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Christopher Murray Alexander Law is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dundee West since 2015. He was first elected at the 2015 general election,winning a seat that had been held by Labour for the previous 65 years. He served as SNP Spokesperson for International Development from 2017 to 2022,resigning from his position after the election of Stephen Flynn.
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.
Deidre Leanne Brock is an Australian-born Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh North and Leith in May 2015 —the first SNP representative to hold the seat at either a Westminster or Scottish Parliament level. She has been the SNP House of Commons Business Spokesperson since December 2022.
The 2021 Airdrie and Shotts by-election was held in the UK parliament constituency of Airdrie and Shotts following the resignation of the sitting member (MP),Neil Gray,to run for the corresponding seat in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. This was necessitated by Scottish National Party (SNP) rules banning its members from sitting as an MSP and an MP at the same time. It took place on 13 May 2021,a week after the Scottish Parliament elections,to reduce COVID-19 transmission risk.
