- Mary Scanlon
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Mary Scanlon MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Highlands and IslandsIncumbent Assumed office
6 May 1999Personal details Born 25 May 1947
DundeePolitical party Scottish Conservative Party Mary Scanlon (born 25 May 1947, Dundee) is a Conservative politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands region from 1999 to 2006 and since 2007.
She contested North East Fife in the General Election of 1992 and Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber at the General Election of 1997.
She resigned from her list seat to contest the 2006 Moray by-election caused by the death of Scottish National Party MSP Margaret Ewing, but was defeated in the by-election by Richard Lochhead of the SNP. During the campaign her decision to keep the word "Conservative" off her election literature caused much controversy. There were claims that there was a deliberate attempt to mislead voters in to believing she was the SNP candidate by printing leaflets in yellow and black (that party's traditional colours). She was embroilled in further controversy later the same week when it emerged that letters apparently backing her candidacy from local independent councillors had been faked. Her list seat was taken up by Dave Petrie.[1]
She has served as health spokeswoman for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and on her resignation was their spokesman for Communities. In her capacity as health spokeswoman, she has called for single vaccine alternatives to the MMR vaccine,[2].
She was returned to Parliament on the list vote in the 2007 election after failing to win the 2006 by-election. She was again re-elected in 2011[3].
References
External links
- Mary Scanlon MSP profile at the site of the Scottish Parliament
Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Highlands and Islands region 
Elected in the 2011 election Constituency MSPs Michael Russell (SNP, Argyll and Bute) · Rob Gibson (SNP, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) · Fergus Ewing (SNP, Inverness and Nairn) · Richard Lochhead (SNP, Moray) · Liam McArthur (Lib Dem, Orkney) · Dave Thompson (SNP, Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch) · Tavish Scott (Lib Dem, Shetland) · Alasdair Allan (SNP, Western Isles)Additional Members John Finnie (SNP) · Rhoda Grant (Lab) · Jamie McGrigor (Con) · Mike MacKenzie (SNP) · Mary Scanlon (Con) · David Stewart (Lab) · Jean Urquhart (SNP)SNP (9 seats), Lib Dem (2 seats), Labour (2 seats), Conservative (2 seats) Scottish Conservative Party MSPs Elected in the 2011 election; See also: Members of the 4th Scottish Parliament Opposition frontbench Gavin Brown · Jackson Carlaw · Ruth Davidson · Alex Fergusson · Murdo Fraser · Annabel Goldie ·
Alex Johnstone · John Lamont · Jamie McGrigor · David McLetchie · Nanette Milne · Mary Scanlon · Elizabeth SmithBackbenchers Categories:- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from Dundee
- Scottish women in politics
- Conservative Members of the Scottish Parliament
- Politics of Moray
- Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
- Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007
- Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011
- Members of the Scottish Parliament 2011–
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