Christine Grahame

Christine Grahame

Christine Grahame , formerly Christine Creech , (born September 9, 1944 in Burton-upon-Trent ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Grahame attended Boroughmuir Secondary School in Edinburgh and then studied at Edinburgh University . At the Moray House College of Education , she then acquired the license to teach and worked as a teacher in the following years. She graduated from Edinburgh University in 1984 and was admitted to the bar in 1985. Grahame then worked as a solicitor .

Political career

In the 1970s, Grahame joined the SNP. In the 1992 general election, she ran in the constituency of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale . She received the third highest share of the vote and thus missed the entry into the British House of Commons . In the European elections in 1994 , she ran for the constituency of South of Scotland , but again received no mandate. When the first Scottish parliamentary elections were due in 1999 , Grahame applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale , but had to admit defeat to Liberal Democrat Ian Jenkins . But since she was placed fourth on the regional electoral list of the SNP for the electoral region South of Scotland , Grahame received one of seven list mandates of the electoral region as a result of the election result and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament . In the parliamentary elections in 2003 she was again unable to win the direct mandate of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, but defended her mandate for the electoral region. From 2004, she was appointed State Secretary for Social Justice in the SNP's shadow cabinet. Although Grahame was able to increase her share of the vote by 8.8% in the parliamentary elections in 2007 , she once again missed the direct mandate of the constituency, but kept her mandate of the electoral region. In the course of constituency reform in 2011, the constituency of Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale was dissolved and largely replaced by the newly created constituency of Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale , in which Grahame ran in the 2011 general election. She won the direct mandate with a clear lead over Liberal Democrat Jeremy Purvis .

Web links

• Own web presence
• Information on the Scottish Parliament website
• Information from the SNP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Information from the Scottish Parliament
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Information from the Scottish Government
3. ↑ Information from the SNP
4. ^ Results of the general election in 1992
5. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
6. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
7. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
8. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
9. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
11. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
12. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website