Shirley-Anne Somerville

Shirley -Anne Somerville ( born September 2, 1974 in Kirkcaldy ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party.

Somerville studied at the University of Stirling. At the age of 16 she joined the SNP. At the general election in 2001 Somerville first appeared on to national elections. She applied to the direct mandate of the constituency of Kirkcaldy, but could not prevail against the Labour candidate Lewis Moonie himself. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2007 she was a candidate in the constituency of Edinburgh Central, but received only the third highest number of votes. They also occupied the sixth place on the Regional Evaluation of the SNP in Lothians electoral region, which they initially but also failed to reach the Scottish Parliament. When her party colleague Stefan Tymkewycz but after only 121 days laid down his mandate, Somerville slipped as runners up in the sequence after the first time and moved into the Scottish Parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2011 she applied for the direct mandate of the constituency Edinburgh Northern and Leith, but was defeated by Labour candidate Malcolm Chisholm and retired from the parliament from.