Irene Oldfather

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Irene Oldfather (* 1954 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labor Party .

Life

Oldfather attended the Irvine Royal Academy and then began studying politics at the University of Strathclyde , which she graduated with a Masters . She then worked for several years as a lecturer at the University of Arizona and then worked as a freelance journalist and political lecturer at Paisley University .

Political career

Between 1990 and 1997, Oldfather advised the Labor MP in the European Parliament , Alex Smith . In 1995 she was elected to the North Ayrshire Regional Council. In the first Scottish general election in 1999, she ran for the first time to elections at the national level. With a clear lead over the SNP candidate Michael Russell , she won the direct mandate of her constituency of Cunninghame South and entered the Scottish Parliament for the first time . In the following parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007 , she defended her mandate. In the end, she was defeated by the SNP candidate Margaret Burgess in the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2011 and left parliament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Information from the Labor Party ( Memento of May 6, 2011 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
personal data
SURNAME Oldfather, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow