Roseanna Cunningham is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment,Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021. She was previously Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work,Skills and Training from 2014 until 2016.
Wendy Alexander is a retired Scottish politician and the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley North. She held various Scottish Government cabinet posts and was the Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2007 to 2008. In 2010–2011 she convened the Scotland Bill Committee on financial powers of the Scottish Parliament.
Richard Neilson Lochhead is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who is Minister for Just Transition,Employment and Fair Work and has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Moray since 2006. He was previously an MSP for North East Scotland 1999–2006 and served as the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs,Food and Environment from 2007 to 2016,and the Minister for Further Education,Higher Education and Science from 2018 to 2021.
North East Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Ten of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 17 MSPs.
James Ross Finnie is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP). He is a former Minister for the Environment and Rural Development in the Scottish Executive,and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the West of Scotland region. He became an MSP in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999,and held the same ministerial portfolio until May 2007.
In Scotland,the Scottish National Party (SNP) is a Scottish nationalist,centre left,social democratic political party which campaigns for Scottish independence. The SNP has controlled Scotland's devolved legislature since the 2007 election as a minority government,and were a majority government from the 2011 election and have been a minority government,since the 2016 election. Its current leader,Nicola Sturgeon,is the First Minister of Scotland.
Johann MacDougall Lamont is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011 to 2014. She was previously a junior Scottish Executive minister from 2004 to 2007 and Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2008 until her election to the leadership in 2011. In addition to her ministerial and leadership roles,she has been a campaigner on equality issues and violence against women throughout her political career.
Gordon is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster),which elects one member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency first returned a member in the 1983 general election,but has undergone boundary changes since that date.
Nanette Lilian Margaret Milne is a former Scottish Conservative Party politician. She served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for North East Scotland from 2003 to 2016.
Scottish Politician of the Year is an annual award established in 1999. It is held by The Herald newspaper in Prestonfield,Edinburgh.
The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday,5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.
The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the third general election to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999. Local elections in Scotland fell on the same day.
Alison McClure McInnes is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Scottish Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Health and Justice in the Scottish Parliament. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region 2007–2016,when she lost her seat at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election. Whilst in Parliament,McInnes was a member of the Justice Committee and a substitute member of Rural Affairs,Climate Change and Environment Committee of the Scottish Parliament.
The first Salmond government,which was sworn in on 17 May 2007 at the start of the 3rd Scottish Parliament,was a SNP minority government. Having won the largest number of seats in the general election the SNP sought to form a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats. When those talks failed,the SNP chose to form a one-party minority government. The SNP and Scottish Greens signed an agreement where the Greens supported SNP ministerial appointments,but did not offer support for any confidence or budget votes. SNP leader,Alex Salmond was elected First Minister on 16 May 2007;he was officially sworn in and his slate of ministerial appointments were ratified by the Scottish Parliament the following day.
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014,currently serving as leader of the Alba Party since 26 March 2021. He was previously the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP),serving two terms,from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Banff and Buchan from 1987 to 2010,when he stood down to focus on his role as First Minister,and then for Gordon from 2015 to 2017. Salmond was the Depute Leader of the SNP from 1987 to 1990 and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2001 and 2007 to 2016.
The 2021 Scottish Parliament election took place on 6 May 2021,under the provisions of the Scotland Act 1998. All 129 Members of the Scottish Parliament were elected in the sixth election since the parliament was re-established in 1999. The election was held alongside the Senedd election,English local elections,London Assembly and mayoral election and the Hartlepool by-election.
The Dunfermline by-election,2013 is a by-election that was held for the Scottish Parliament constituency of Dunfermline on 24 October 2013. It followed the resignation of its MSP,Bill Walker after he was convicted of 23 charges of assault.
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh OBE WS NP is a Scottish politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ochil and South Perthshire from 2015 to 2017. A former member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),Ahmed-Sheikh served as Trade and Investment spokesperson,Deputy Shadow Leader of the House in the House of Commons,and the SNP's National Women's and Equalities Convener. A solicitor and businessperson,and a former actress,Ahmed-Sheikh founded and formerly chaired the Scottish Asian Women's Association.
Alexander Geoffrey Cole-Hamilton is a Scottish politician who has served as Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats since 2021 and the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Western constituency since 2016.
