List_of_female_Members_of_the_Scottish_Parliament

List of female members of the Scottish Parliament

List of female members of the Scottish Parliament

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This is a list of women who are or have been members of the Scottish Parliament.

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List of female members of the Scottish Parliament

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Wendy Alexander is the sister of former MP Douglas Alexander.
  2. [N 2]
    Sarah Boyack was defeated in her Edinburgh Central constituency seat in 2011, but was elected in the same election as an Additional Member for the Lothian region. At the 2016 election, she was defeated in Lothian, but in 2019 Kezia Dugdale resigned as a Lothian MP, and as the next-placed member of the Labour list for Lothian, Boyack was deemed elected to replace her.
  3. [N 3]
    Roseanna Cunningham was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth 1995–97, and for Perth and Kinross 1997–2001.
  4. [N 4]
    Margaret Curran was the Member of Parliament for Glasgow East 2010–15.
  5. [N 5]
    Margaret Ewing was the Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire 1974–79, and MP for Moray 1987–2001. Wife of fellow MSP Fergus Ewing, daughter in law to fellow MP/MSP Winnie Ewing and sister in law to Annabelle Ewing.
  6. [N 6]
    Winnie Ewing was the Member of Parliament for Hamilton 1967–70, and for Moray and Nairn 1974–79. Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Highlands and Islands from 1979–99. Mother of Fergus Ewing and Annabelle Ewing and mother in law to Margaret Ewing.
  7. [N 7]
    Trish Godman is the wife of Norman Godman MP.
  8. [N 8]
    Annabel Goldie was made a life peer in 2013 as Baroness Goldie, of Bishopton in the County of Renfrewshire.
  9. [N 9]
    Cathy Jamieson was the Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock and Loudoun 2010–15.
  10. [N 10]
    Johann Lamont was defeated for her constituency seat in 2016, but was elected as a Regional Member in 2016.
  11. [N 11]
    Margo MacDonald was the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Govan 1973–74. She was the wife of Jim Sillars.
  12. [N 12]
    Tricia Marwick served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2011 to 2016. As is customary, she suspended her SNP party membership for that period.
  13. [N 13]
    Cathy Peattie is the mother of Cara Hilton.
  14. [N 14]
    Shona Robison is the wife of Stewart Hosie.
  15. [N 15]
    At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Elaine Smith was defeated in her constituency, but was elected as a Regional Member for the Central Scotland region.
  16. [N 16]
    In April 2006, Richard Lochhead resigned his seat as one of the MSPs for the North East Scotland region, to contest the Moray by-election. The next person on the SNP list from the 2003 election had been Alasdair Allan but he refused his place in Parliament as he had secured the SNP nomination for the Western Isles in the 2007 election. The next person on the list was Maureen Watt, who took up the place.
  17. [N 17]
    Claudia Beamish is the daughter of Tufton Victor Hamilton Beamish, Baron Chelwood.
  18. [N 18]
    Annabelle Ewing was the Member of Parliament for Perth 2001–05. She is a sister of fellow MSP Fergus Ewing, daughter of Winnie Ewing and sister in law to Margaret Ewing.
  19. [N 19]
    In May 2021, Alison Johnstone was elected as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. As is customary, she has suspended her party membership of the Scottish Greens.
  20. [N 20]
    Joan McAlpine is the former wife of Pat Kane.
  21. [N 21]
    Siobhan McMahon is the daughter of fellow MSP Michael McMahon.
  22. [N 22]
    Jean Urquhart is the wife of Robert Urquhart.
  23. [N 23]
    On 7 December 2012, John Park resigned as list MSP for the Mid Scotland and Fife region. He was succeeded by Jayne Baxter.
  24. [N 24]
    Cara Hilton is the daughter of Cathy Peattie.
  25. [N 25]
    Richard Baker resigned as MSP in January 2016. His replacement was Lesley Brennan, as she had been next on Labour's North East Scotland regional list.
  26. [N 26]
    Ash Regan was elected as Ash Denham in 2016.
  27. [N 27]
    Ruth Maguire is the daughter of MSP John Finnie.
  28. [N 28]
    Katy Clark was the Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran 2005–15. She was made a life peer as Baroness Clark, of Kilwinning in the County of Ayrshire in 2020.
  29. [N 29]
    Michelle Thomson was the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West 2015–17.

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