Elaine Thomson

Elaine Thomson ( born 1957 in Inverness ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party. She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls, then studied pure science at the University of Aberdeen and graduated with a bachelor's degree. Afterwards she worked in the petrochemical industry.

Political career

1994 Thomson presented for election for the Regional Council of Grampian, but was not elected. Even a seat on the city council of Aberdeen, for which she ran in 1995, they missed. In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 Thomson first came on to the national elections. In their constituency Aberdeen North, she received the largest share of the vote and moved to the sequence in the newly created Scottish Parliament a. In the 2003 parliamentary elections Thomson lost its mandate to the SNP politician Brian Adam and retired from the Parliament from. In the 2007 parliamentary elections they tried the direct mandate to recover, but failed. At the 2011 parliamentary elections it did not occur to.