Maureen Macmillan

Maureen Macmillan ( born February 9, 1943 in Oban ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party.

Macmillan visited the Oban High School, then studied English at Edinburgh University and graduated as a master. After she received her teaching license, she worked for many years as a teacher, including at the Millburn Academy in Inverness.

Political career

For the first time Macmillan joined the Scottish Parliament elections 1999 to national elections. Here she applied not to the direct mandate of a constituency, but one of the seven seats to be filled of choice Highlands and Islands. On the Regional Evaluation of the Labour Party, she took a second place and moved as a result of the election result as one of three candidates of the Labour Party for the Highlands and Islands in the newly created Scottish parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2003, she followed on Donnie Munro as a candidate for the direct mandate of the constituency of Ross, Skye and Inverness West. However, the mandate holder John Farquhar Munro of the Liberal Democrats won the election and Macmillan received only the third highest number of votes. However, they defended their mandate constituency. At the 2007 parliamentary elections Macmillan did not want to take up first, then ran again but for Ross, Skye and Inverness West. Another time, she received only the third highest number of votes and thus retired from the Scottish Parliament.