Willie Coffey

Willie Coffey ( born May 24, 1958) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Coffey attended the University of Strathclyde and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from. Between 1992 and 1999, Coffey was councilor of Kilmarnock and Loudoun and since then sitting in the Council of East Ayrshire. He is the brother of the late 2006 SNP politician Daniel Coffey and the local politician Helen Coffey.

For the first time Coffey approached to national elections in the parliamentary elections of 2007. He represented the constituency of Kilmarnock and Loudoun, which his brother Daniel could not decide against the Labour candidate Margaret Jamieson for itself in the parliamentary elections of 2003. Willie Coffey won the direct mandate of the constituency for the first time for the SNP. As part of the constituency reform of 2011, the constituency Kilmarnock and Loudoun was dissolved. Large parts went up in the newly created constituency of Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, for the Coffey was a candidate in the parliamentary elections of 2011. He was given a mandate with a clear lead over the Labour candidate.