Siobhan McMahon is a Scottish Labour Party

Scottish Labour Party

The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....

 Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...

 for the Central Scotland region

Central Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Central Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Ten of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament...

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Political career

McMahon is supporting Johann Lamont MSP to become Scottish Labour's leader

Scottish Labour Party leadership election, 2011

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Labour Party researcher

Controversially, McMahon previously worked as a paid researcher for her serving MSP father, Michael McMahon

Michael McMahon (Scottish politician)

Michael McMahon is a Scottish Labour politician and is the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Uddingston and Bellshill since 2011. He was previously the member for the former seat of Hamilton North and Bellshill. McMahon has been the Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Local Government for Labour in...

. After the Scottish Parliament Election in 2011 Siobhan, despite being handicapped, was elected as a regional list MSP and they became the first father and daughter pair to serve in the Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament...

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She has also worked for Labour MP Jim Murphy

Jim Murphy

James Francis "Jim" Murphy is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for East Renfrewshire....

 and as part of the Labour Support Unit in the Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament...

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Personal life

McMahon graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow Caledonian University is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland.The university was constituted by an Act of Parliament on 1 April 1993 as a result of a merger between Glasgow Polytechnic and The Queen's College, Glasgow....

 with a 2.1 BA Honours in Politics with History and Sociology in 2006.

She is a member of the GMB trade union and is interested in the politics of South Africa

Politics of South Africa

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External links

• siobhanmcmahon.org - Official website