Fiona McLeod

Fiona McLeod (born 1957, Glasgow) is a Scottish politician. She was a Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland region from 1999 to 2003.

In the 1999 election she stood as a constituency candidate in Strathkelvin and Bearsden, where she was runner-up to Labour candidate Sam Galbraith. However her number four position on the SNP West of Scotland list was enough to take her to Holyrood.

Galbraith resigned his seat in 2001 but McLeod did not stand in the subsequent by-election as this would have meant resigning her seat. However she did contest the seat in the 2003 election but finished fourth, behind Jean Turner (an independent), Brian Fitzpatrick (who had won the by-election) and Jo Swinson (who would later become MP for part of the seat). She also only placed 7th on the SNP list for West of Scotland and so also lost her top-up place in parliament.

External links

* [http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/corporate/history/whisp/whisp-00/wh49-01.htm Fiona McLeod MSP] biography at the Scottish Parliament website