Rhoda Grant

Rhoda Grant ( born June 26, 1963 in Stornoway) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party.

Grant grew up in a village on the southern shore of the sea arm Loch Torridon. She attended the Plockton High School, Plockton and Inverness College. She then studied at the Open University Social Sciences and graduated with a bachelor's degree. In 1993 she joined the trade union UNISON.

Political career

For the first time Grant 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 took a third 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. Since the share of votes of the Labour Party declined by 3.2 % compared to 1999 in the 2003 parliamentary elections, the party was able to send only this time two regional candidates, which is why listed on the third rank Grant lost her parliamentary seat. However, Grant appeared in these elections not only as a list candidate, but also applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber. There was, however, it was subject to mandate holders Fergus Ewing from the SNP. Since Grant's party colleague Maureen Macmillan, who had occupied a lower rank than Grant on the list of candidates in both elections, the parliamentary elections of 2007 no longer took, Grant slipped to second place and was in 2007 again a mandate from the region ensure that they at the 2011 elections defended.