Annabelle Ewing

Annabelle Ewing ( born August 20, 1960) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Ewing attended the Craig Holme School and then studied at the University of Glasgow European law. Subsequently, she earned degrees in International Relations (University of Bologna ), European Integration ( University of Amsterdam ) and Law ( University of Glasgow ). She has worked in Saltcoats as a solicitor and joined then for ten years at a law firm in Brussels. Then she moved back to Glasgow to work in a small firm. Annabelle Ewing is the daughter of politician Winnie Ewing, sister of the politician Fergus Ewing and related by marriage to the politician Margaret Ewing.

General Election

Ewing first ran in the general election, 2001 for the SNP in the constituency of Perth, which her party colleague Roseanna Cunningham had previously held. You won the election by a margin of only 48 votes ahead of the candidate of the Conservative Party and moved into the House of Commons. After the end of the legislative term of the constituency was dissolved. At the general election in 2005 and 2010 candidate for the constituency Ewing Ochil and South Perthshire, but lost each of the candidate of the Labour Party, Gordon Banks.

For a place in the Scottish Parliament Ewing ran for the first time in the 1999 elections for the constituency of Stirling, but was defeated by the Labour candidate Sylvia Jackson. At the 2007 parliamentary elections candidate Ewing for the constituency of Falkirk East, but lost Cathy Peattie of the Labour Party. In the 2011 parliamentary elections Ewing occurred on the regional list of polling Region Mid Scotland and Fife and won in this election is the only list mandate the region for the SNP.