Alison McInnes

Alison McInnes ( born July 17, 1957 in Irvine ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats.

Life

McInnes visited the Irvine Royal Academy and the McLaren High School in Callander. She then studied at the University of Glasgow. She lived for four years in southern England and moved with her husband back to Scotland. For more than two decades she has lived in the area of Ellon. McInnes is married and mother of two.

Political career

In the early 1990s McInnes joined the Liberal Democratic Party. In 1992 she was elected to the Regional Council of Gordon, which she belonged to her election to the Regional Council of Aberdeenshire in 1995. Up to her election to the Scottish Parliament in 2007 McInnes was a member of the Regional Council of Aberdeenshire.

For the first time McInnes went to to national elections in the parliamentary elections of 2007. In their constituency Banff and Buchan they only got the fourth-largest share of votes. McInnes, however, was also placed on the third rank of the Regional Evaluation of the Liberal Democrats for the election of North East Scotland. Since the two listed before her Nicol Stephen and Mike Rumbles each won direct seats and the Liberal Democrats were given a mandate list as a result of the election results, McInnes drew for the first time in the Scottish Parliament. In the shadow cabinet of the Liberal Democrats was provided to 2008 as Secretary of State for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change. She then until the end of the legislature party spokeswoman for local management and transport. As part of the constituency reform of 2011, the constituency of Banff and Buchan was dissolved. In the parliamentary elections of 2011, McInnes applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Aberdeenshire East. She received the second highest number of votes behind the SNP First Minister Alex Salmond and candidates and missed so again a direct mandate. Its mandate for choosing North East Scotland. After the election McInnes was appointed party spokesperson on health and justice.