Dorothy-Grace Elder

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Dorothy-Grace Elder is a Scottish journalist, politician and former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

In the 1999 Scottish general election , Elder ran for the constituency of Glasgow Baillieston , but could not win the direct mandate against Margaret Curran of the Labor Party . Elder moved into the newly created parliament as the second candidate on the SNP's regional electoral list for the Glasgow electoral region . In the following years Elder could no longer identify sufficiently with the course of the SNP and also lost her support within the party. She was advised to return her mandate, but Elder only left the SNP and from May 2002 sat as a non-party member of parliament. At the 2003 parliamentary elections Elder came not more.

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  1. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from April 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website.
  3. ↑ a b Results of the 1999 general election on the Scottish Parliament website.
  4. ^ A b BBC News: Farewell to the parliament
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SURNAME Elder, Dorothy-Grace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century