Winnie Ewing

Winnie Ewing , actually Winifred Margaret Ewing , (born July 10, 1929 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party . She is one of the most famous Scottish politicians and was nicknamed Madame Ecosse ( French for "Ms. Scotland") during her time in the European Parliament . Winnie Ewing is the mother of the politician Fergus Ewing and the politician Annabelle Ewing and the mother-in-law of Margaret Ewing . Ewing attended the Battlefield School and Queens Park Secondary School . She then went to the University of Glasgow and studied law. After obtaining her license, she worked as a solicitor .

British House of Commons

After the resignation of Labor politician Tom Fraser , new elections were scheduled in the Hamilton constituency in 1967 , to which Ewing stood as a candidate for the SNP. In the previous general election in 1966 , Fraser had won the direct mandate with a 71.2% share of the vote, ahead of the Conservative Party candidate. Up to this point in time, Robert McIntyre was the only SNP politician who had succeeded in winning a parliamentary seat for the SNP in a new election in April 1945 in the Motherwell constituency . Nevertheless, Ewing prevailed in the election against the Labor candidate Alexander Wilson and moved into the British House of Commons . Their victory is considered to pave the way for the subsequent rise of the SNP. In the 1970 general election , Ewing lost her mandate to Alexander Wilson. In the general election in February 1974 Ewing won the direct mandate of the constituency of Moray and Nairn and was able to defend it in the general election in October of the same year . In 1979 she lost her mandate to Alexander Pollock .

European Parliament

In the European elections in 1979 Ewing ran in the newly created constituency Highlands and Islands and won the direct mandate. She defended her mandate in the 1984 , 1989 and 1994 elections . For the 1999 European elections , the constituency was dissolved, so that Ewing was the only member of the European Parliament for the Highlands and Islands. Because of her commitment to defending Scottish interests, Ewing was named Madame Ecosse and was highly regarded in Scotland. Ewing was also Vice President of the SNP from 1979 to 1987, and President between 1987 and 2005.

Scottish Parliament

In 1999, Ewing ran for one of the seven seats in the Highlands and Islands electoral region in the Scottish general election . On the basis of the election result, she succeeded in entering the newly created Scottish Parliament . As the oldest member of parliament, she opened the first session of parliament since 1707. Ewing did not run for the 2003 parliamentary elections .

literature

• Winnie Ewing, Michael Russell (Eds.): Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing , Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2004. ISBN 978-1-84158-239-9 .

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website
• Entry on Winnie Ewing in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Biographical information
2. ^ Biographical information
3. ^ Results of the general election in 1966
4. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Results of the 1970 general election
6. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in February 1974 ( Memento of the original from January 27, 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. 
7. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in October 1974 ( Memento of the original from May 8, 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. 
8. ↑ Results of the 1979 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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. 
9. ↑ Results of the European elections
10. ^ The Herald: Madame Ecosse says au revoir to world of politics Winnie Ewing, heroine of the national movement, is to quit and spend more time with her grandchildren
11. ^ G. Hassan: The Modern SNP: From Protest to Power , Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2009, p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7486-3991-5
12. ↑ the 1999 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
13. ↑ BBC News: May 12, 1999: Winnie Ewing reconvenes the Scottish Parliament