Eilidh Whiteford

Eilidh Whiteford (* 1969 in Aberdeen ) is a politician with the Scottish National Party .

Life

Eilidh Whiteford grew up in Macduff . She studied in Scotland and Canada and graduated with a PhD . She then taught at the University of Glasgow before working for an aid and development organization. In 2003 Whiteford joined Oxfam , where she worked for over six years.

Political career

In 1986 Whiteford joined the Scottish National Party (SNP). In the 2010 general election , she ran for the SNP in the constituency of Banff and Buchan . In doing so, she inherited the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond , who had held the constituency mandate since 1987. Despite losing votes, Whiteford won the constituency mandate and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons . Since 2010 she has been the party spokesperson for international development, fisheries, and work and pensions in parliament. In the general election in 2015 , Whiteford defended her mandate by a large margin over Conservative Alex Johnstone . Two years later, however, she was defeated by the conservative challenger David Duguid in the early general election in 2017 and was subsequently eliminated from the British lower house.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Results of the general election 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ BBC: Eilidh Whiteford
4. ↑ Results of the general election in 2015 and 2017

Web links

• Own web presence
• British Parliament information
• Information from the SNP