Sylvia Jackson
Encyclopedia
Dr. Sylvia Jackson is a Scottish
Labour
politician, and former Member of the Scottish Parliament
.
In the Scottish Election on 3 May 2007, she lost her Stirling constiuency, which she had held since 1999, to Bruce Crawford of the SNP.
Prior to her election she has worked as a lecturer at Edinburgh University and as a chemistry teacher.
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
Labour
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
politician, and former 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:...
.
In the Scottish Election on 3 May 2007, she lost her Stirling constiuency, which she had held since 1999, to Bruce Crawford of the SNP.
Prior to her election she has worked as a lecturer at Edinburgh University and as a chemistry teacher.
External links
- Sylvia Jackson MSP personal site
- Sylvia Jackson MSP official biography at the Scottish Parliament website
- Sylvia Jackson MSP profile at the site of Scottish Labour