Margaret Ewing

Margaret Ewing (* 1945 in Lanark as Margaret McAdam; † March 21, 2006 ) was a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Ewing attended Biggar High School and then studied at the University of Glasgow , the University of Strathclyde and Jordanhill College . Margaret Ewing was the wife of the politician Fergus Ewing and sister-in-law of Annabelle Ewing .

British House of Commons

For the first time, Ewing, after her first husband as Margaret Bain, ran for national elections in the general election in October 1974 . She won the direct mandate of the constituency of East Dunbartonshire with 22 votes ahead of the conservative Barry Henderson . She lost her parliamentary seat in the 1979 general election . At the end of the legislature, the constituency of East Dunbartonshire was dissolved and Ewing stood in the 1983 general election for the constituency of Strathkelvin and Bearsden . However, it only received the fourth highest number of votes. In the lower house elections in 1987 , Ewing won the direct mandate of the Moray constituency and moved back into the lower house. She defended her mandate in the subsequent elections in 1992 and 1997 . At the general election in 2001 Ewing came not. Your party colleague Angus Robertson was able to win the constituency for itself.

Scottish Parliament

In the 1999 parliamentary elections , Ewing ran in the constituency of Moray . She won the direct mandate and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament . In the 2003 parliamentary elections , Ewing defended her mandate. Ewing later announced that he would not run again in the following parliamentary elections. She died in the spring of 2006 of breast cancer, for which she had previously been treated.

In the subsequent by-elections on April 27, 2006, Ewing's party colleague Richard Lochhead was able to clearly win the mandate.

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from September 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Biographical information
3. ↑ Results of the 1974 lower house elections ( memento of the original from August 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Results of the 1979 general election ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. 
5. ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections in 1983 ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2012 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. 
6. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1987 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of the 1992 general election ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 1997 general election ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ the 1999 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
10. ↑ the general election 2003 on the pages of the Scottish Parliament
11. ↑ BBC News: In profile: Richard Lochhead
12. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
13. ^ The Guardian: Margaret Ewing
14. ↑ Election results on the website of the Moray Council ( Memento of the original of May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.