Nanette Milne

Nanette Milne (* April 27, 1942 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish politician and member of the Conservative Party.

Milne attended Aberdeen High School for Girls and then studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen, where she trained for the anesthetist. After she took a break in the 1970s to raise her two children, Milne worked as a part-time employee in cancer research.

Political career

1974 Milne joined at the Conservative Party between 1989 and 1993 and was deputy chairman of the Scottish offshoot. In 1992 she was elected for the District of Cults in the regional council of Aberdeen, and in 1995 the city council. For the first time Milne joined the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 elections at the national level. In their constituency Aberdeen South, she received 20.2 % the third highest share of the vote and thus missed the direct mandate. As Milne was set only on the fifth rank of the Regional Evaluation of the Conservative Party for choosing North East Scotland, it was not sent as a result of the election result as one of the seven representatives of the constituency in the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the British general election, 2001, she applied for the direct mandate of the constituency Gordon, but only received the second highest number of votes behind the Liberal Democrat Malcolm Bruce, and thus failed to reach the British House of Commons. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2003 Milne ran as follow up to her party colleague Alex Johnstone for the constituency of Gordon, but could not prevail against the Liberal Democrat Nora Radcliffe himself. On the regional election list for the election of the Conservative North East Scotland Milne took the third place. Since the Conservatives were able to send on the basis of the election results three candidates, Milne moved for the first time in the Scottish Parliament. In 2005 she was appointed health policy spokesperson of the party. In their constituency Gordon received in the parliamentary elections of 2007, the third highest number of votes, but defended as runner-up at the Regional Evaluation of the Conservatives for North East Scotland list their mandate. The constituency was abolished in the wake of the Gordon constituency reform of 2011. In the Scottish Parliament elections of 2011, Milne applied therefore to the direct mandate of the newly created constituency of Aberdeenshire West. Milne was behind the SNP politician Dennis Robertson and the Liberal Democrat Mike Rumbles the third-largest share of votes, but once again defended its regional mandate.