Jean Urquhart

Jean Urquhart ( born May 17, 1949) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Life

Urquhart visited the Lindsay High School in Bathgate and the Newbattle Abbey College in Dalkeith. In 1973, she led a snack bar in Ullapool.

For the first time Urquhart approached to national elections in the parliamentary elections of 1999. However, in her constituency of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, she received only the third highest share of votes and thus failed to reach the newly created Scottish Parliament. In 2003, Urquhart was elected to the Regional Council of Lochbroom. Since 2007 she is a council member of the Wester Ross region, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011 she applied for the direct mandate of the constituency Shetland, but was again recorded only the third-largest share of votes for themselves. She was also placed on the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for the election Highlands and Islands, she won as a result of the election results is one of the seven regional envelopes and pulled the first time in the Scottish Parliament. For rejection of the positive decision on Congress to join NATO in the event of secession of Scotland from the United Kingdom, Urquhart joined with her party colleague John Finnie on October 23, 2012 from the SNP from. Both gave their time to their support for large parts of the SNP policy as a non-party parliamentarians.