Helen Eadie

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Helen Eadie

Helen Stirling Eadie (born March 7, 1947 in Stenhousemuir , † November 9, 2013 in Dunfermline ) was a British politician and member of the Labor Party .

In the Scottish general elections in 1999 , Helen Eadie won the direct mandate of her constituency of Dunfermline East and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament . In the parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007 , Eadie defended her constituency clearly with at least 16% more votes in front of the changing candidates of the SNP . As part of constituency reform in 2011, the constituency of Dunfermline East was abolished and went into the new constituencies of Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath . In the 2011 parliamentary elections she therefore ran for the constituency of Cowdenbeath and won it with a total of 11,925 votes (46.5%), 4.9% ahead of the SNP's candidate, Ian Chisholm. Eadie thus won the Labor Party’s only constituency in the electoral region of Mid Scotland and Fife . All other constituencies went to the SNP.

Career

Eadie attended Larbert High School in neighboring Larbert . She then went to Falkirk Technical College and later to the London School of Economics , from which she graduated with a degree in economics. In the 1970s, Eadie worked for Scottish House Members Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford and Alex Eadie , their father-in-law. From 1976 to 1984, Helen Eadie worked full-time for the GMB union, then for the Fife regional government . She was active in the areas of equality and transport. During her time in the Scottish Parliament, Eadie dealt with the areas of transport and the environment as well as health and sport. Since the 2011 election, she has worked in the field of European and international affairs.

At the end of October 2013 she was diagnosed with cancer, which she succumbed to on November 9, 2013 in a hospital in Dunfermline. Helen Eadie was married and had two daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Labor MSP Helen Eadie dies, aged 66
  2. ↑ a b c http://iwc2.labouronline.org/169691/about-helen-eadie ( Memento from January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  4. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  5. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ↑ Summary of the election results on guardian.co.uk
  8. ↑ Entry on Helen Eadie on the pages of the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scottish.parliament.uk
personal data
SURNAME Eadie, Helen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eadie, Helen Stirling
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Stenhousemuir
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2013
Place of death Dunfermline