Shirley-Anne Somerville

Shirley-Anne Somerville, 2017

Shirley-Anne Somerville (born September 2, 1974 in Kirkcaldy ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party .

Somerville graduated from Stirling University . She joined the SNP at the age of 16. In the 2001 general election Somerville first ran for national elections. You applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Kirkcaldy , but could not prevail against the Labor candidate Lewis Moonie . In the Scottish general elections in 2007 , she ran in the constituency of Edinburgh Central , but received only the third highest number of votes. She also had sixth place on the regional electoral list of the SNP in Lothian's electoral region , which, however, initially also missed her entry into the Scottish Parliament . When her party colleague Stefan Tymkewycz resigned his mandate after only 121 days, Somerville slipped as the runner-up in the sequence and moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time. In the 2011 parliamentary elections , she ran for the direct mandate of the constituency of Edinburgh Northern and Leith , but was defeated by the Labor candidate Malcolm Chisholm and left Parliament. After the resignation of SNP MP Bill Walker , by-elections were required in his constituency of Dunfermline . The SNP put Somerville against the Labor candidate Cara Hilton . Somerville did not succeed in gaining a majority of the votes and thus missed a return to the Scottish Parliament.

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website
• Information from the SNP

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from November 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Results of the 2001 British General Election
4. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
5. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
6. ↑ BBC News: Dunfermline by-election: Labor's Cara Hilton wins seat from SNP , October 25, 2013