Willie Coffey
Willie Coffey (born May 24, 1958 ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Life
Coffey attended Strathclyde University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science. Coffey was a councilor of Kilmarnock and Loudoun between 1992 and 1999 and has served on the East Ayrshire council since then . He is the brother of the SNP politician Daniel Coffey, who died in 2006, and the local politician Helen Coffey.
Political career
For the first time, Coffey competed in the 2007 general election to national elections. He represented the constituency of Kilmarnock and Loudoun , which his brother Daniel was unable to win against Labor candidate Margaret Jamieson in the 2003 general election . Willie Coffey won the constituency direct mandate for the first time for the SNP. In the course of constituency reform in 2011, the constituency of Kilmarnock and Loudoun was dissolved. Much of it went into the newly created constituency of Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley , for which Coffey ran in the 2011 parliamentary elections. He received the mandate with a clear lead over the Labor candidate and defended it in the subsequent elections in 2016 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information from the Scottish Parliament
- ↑ Information from the SNP
- ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the general election 2016 on the Scottish Parliament website
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Coffey, Willie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1958 |