Shona Robison

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Shona Robison

Shona Robison (born May 26, 1966 in Redcar , England ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Robison attended Alva Academy and then studied social sciences at the University of Glasgow . She then moved to Jordanhill College and subsequently worked as a community worker in Glasgow . Robison is married to House of Commons Stewart Hosie , has one daughter and lives in Dundee .

Political career

For the first time Robison appeared in the 1997 general election to national elections. In her constituency of Dundee East , however, she received only the second highest number of votes behind the Labor candidate John McAllion and thus missed the entry into the British House of Commons. In the first Scottish general election in 1999, Robison ran again in the constituency of Dundee East , but was again defeated by McAllion. On the regional electoral list of the SNP for the electoral region of North East Scotland she took fifth place. Since the SNP politicians listed before her, Alex Salmond and Andrew Welsh , won direct mandates, she received one of four SNP list mandates in the electoral region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament . From September 2000 until the end of the legislative period, she was designated as deputy state secretary for health in the shadow cabinet of the SNP.

In the following general election in 2003 she won the direct mandate of Dundee East by a margin of only 90 votes and defended the mandate in the 2007 general election . From May 2003, Robison was State Secretary for Health in the SNP's shadow cabinet. After the SNP's election victory in 2007, she was subsequently appointed State Secretary for Health. As part of the 2011 constituency reform, the Dundee East constituency was dissolved and largely replaced by the newly created Dundee City East constituency , for which Robison ran in the 2011 general election. She received 64.2% of the vote and thus clearly won the direct mandate of the new constituency. In the newly formed cabinet , she was appointed Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sports.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Information from the SNP
  4. ↑ Results of the 1997 general election ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  5. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  8. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  9. ↑ a b Information from the Scottish Government
  10. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Robison, Shona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Redcar