Alison McInnes

Alison McInnes

Alison McInnes OBE FRSA (born July 17, 1957 in Irvine ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats .

Life

McInnes attended the Irvine Royal Academy and McLaren High School in Callander . She then studied at the University of Glasgow . She lived in the south of England for four years and then moved back to Scotland with her husband. She has lived in the Ellon area for more than two decades . McInnes is married and a mother of two. In 2013 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire .

Political career

In the early 1990s, McInnes joined the Liberal Democratic Party. In 1992 she was elected to the Gordon Regional Council, which she served until she was elected to the Aberdeenshire Regional Council in 1995. McInnes was a member of the Aberdeenshire Regional Council until she was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2007.

For the first time McInnes ran in the 2007 general election to national elections. In her constituency of Banff and Buchan , she received only the fourth largest share of the vote. However, McInnes was also placed third on the Liberal Democrats' regional electoral list for the electoral region of North East Scotland . Since the two listed before her Nicol Stephen and Mike Rumbles each won direct mandates and the Liberal Democrats received a list mandate as a result of the election result, McInnes moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time. In the shadow cabinet of the Liberal Democrats, she was designated as State Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change until 2008. Then she was party spokeswoman for local administration and transport until the end of the legislative period. As part of the 2011 constituency reform, the constituency of Banff and Buchan was dissolved. In the 2011 general election , McInnes ran for the direct mandate of the constituency of Aberdeenshire East . She received the second highest number of votes behind the SNP candidate and First Minister Alex Salmond and thus once again missed a direct mandate. However, she received again a list mandate for the electoral region of North East Scotland. After the election, McInnes was named party spokeswoman for health and justice. At the end of the parliamentary term, she left the Scottish Parliament.

Web links

• Own web presence ( Memento from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Information on the Scottish Parliament website
• Liberal Democrats information

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile of the BBC
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Information from the Liberal Democrats
3. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of July 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
5. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from May 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
7. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
8. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website