 | 'She is not, as the old saying goes, the sort of woman you would go home to with a broken pay packet. Yet very soon now, the whole of Scotland - and most particularly its newly elected Holyrood parliament - could be feeling the blunt end of her matriarchal tongue.' Scotland on Sunday on Helen Liddell. |  |
| Name, Party & Constituency | ||
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| 1 | 27 years, 8 months, 4 days Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart DBE, later Baroness Hart of South Lanark Longest serving female MP Labour Lanark 8/10/1959 - 3/5/1979 Clydesdale 3/5/1979 - 11/6/1987 |
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| 2 | 27 years, 6 months, 21 days Rt Hon Jennie Lee (Mrs Nye Bevan), later Baroness Lee of Ashridge First female Labour MP Youngest MP in the House of Commons Labour Lanarkshire Northern 21/3/1929 - 27/10/1931 Cannock 5/7/1945 - 18/6/1970 |
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| 3 | 24 years, 11 months, 14 days Rt Hon Margaret McCrorie Herbison Labour Lanarkshire North 5/7/1945 - 18/6/1970 |
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| 4 | 23 years, 2 months, 26 days Rt Hon Florence Horsbrugh, later Baroness Horsburgh First female cabinet minister First female MP to move the address in reply to the King's speech Conservative & Unionist Dundee 27/10/1931 - 5/6/1945 Manchester Moss-Side 23/2/1950 - 8/10/1959 |
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| 5 | 20 years, 8 months, 2 days Alice Cullen Labour Glasgow Gorbals 30/9/1948 - 31/5/1969 |
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| 6 | 19 years, 7 months, 24 days Rt Hon Betty Harvie Anderson OBE TD, later Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter Conservative & Unionist Renfrewshire East 8/10/1959 - 3/5/1979 |
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| 7 | 19 years, 4 months, 6 days Priscilla Jean Fortescue Grant (later Buchan), Lady Grant of Monymusk, later Lady Tweedsmuir, later Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie Conservative & Unionist Aberdeen South 26/11/1946 - 31/3/1966 |
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| 8 | 18 years, 6 months, 21 days Margaret Anne Bain, later Margaret Anne Ewing Longest serving female Scottish National Party MP Scottish National Party Dunbartonshire East 10/10/1974 - 3/5/1979 Moray 11/6/1987 - 7/6/2001 (also: Member of the Scottish Parliament for Moray 6/5/1999 - 21/3/2006) |
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| 9 | 15 years, 14 days Katherine Marjory Stewart Murray, Duchess of Atholl DBE First female MP Conservative & Unionist Kinross & Western Perthshire, 8/12/1923 - 21/12/1938 |
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| 10 | 14 years, 5 months, 7 days Katherine Patricia Irene Adams, later Baroness Adams of Craigielea Labour Paisley North 29/11/1990 - 5/5/2005 |
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| 11 | 14 years, 4 months, 4 days Jean Mann Labour Coatbridge 5/7/1945 - 8/11/1959 |
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| 12 | 13 years, 11 months, 28 days Maria Fyfe Labour Glasgow Maryhill 11/6/1987 - 7/6/2001 |
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| 13 | 13 years, 11 months, 28 days Janet Ray Michie, later Baroness Michie of Gallanish First female Liberal/Liberal Democrat MP Longest serving female Liberal/Liberal Democrat MP Liberal Democrat Argyll & Bute 11/6/1987 - 7/6/2001 |
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| 14 | 13 years, 8 months, 28 days Rachel Squire Labour Dunfermline West 9/4/1992 - 5/5/2005 Dunfermline & West Fife 5/5/2005 - 5/1/2006 |
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| 15 | 13 years, 7 days (on 7/5/2010) Anne Begg Labour Aberdeen South 1/5/1997 - |
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| 16 | 13 years, 7 days (on 7/5/2010) Anne McGuire Labour Stirling 1/5/1997 - |
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| 17 | 13 years, 7 days (on 7/5/2010) Sandra Osborne Labour Ayr 1/5/1997 - 5/5/2005 Ayr, Carrick ∓ Cumnock 5/5/2005 - |
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| 18 | 12 years, 11 months, 12 days Rosemary McKenna CBE Labour Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 1/5/1997 - 5/5/2005 Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East 5/5/2005 - 12/4/2010 |
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| 19 | 10 years, 10 months, 6 days Rt Hon Helen Liddell First female Secretary of State for Scotland Labour Monklands East 30/6/1994 - 1/5/1997 Airdrie & Shotts 1/5/1997 - 5/5/2005 |
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| 20 | 8 years, 10 months, 2 days (on 7/5/2010) Ann McKechin Labour Glasgow Maryhill 7/6/2001 - 5/5/2005 Glasgow North 5/5/2005 - |
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| 21 | 8 years, 10 months, 6 days Anne Picking, later Anne Moffat Labour East Lothian 7/6/2001 - 12/4/2010 |
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| 22 | 8 years, 5 days Dr Lynda Margaret Clark QC, later Baroness Clark of Calton Labour Edinburgh Pentlands 1/5/1997 - 5/5/2005 |
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| 23 | 7 years, 9 months, 29 days Agnes Hardie Labour Glasgow Springburn 7/9/1937 - 5/7/1945 |
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| 24 | 7 years, 9 months, 23 days Dr Winifred Ewing First female Scottish National Party MP Scottish National Party Hamilton 2/11/1967 - 18/6/1970 Moray & Nairn 28/2/1974 - 3/5/1979 (also: Member of the European Parliament from 1973 - 7/6/1979 (Party representative) and MEP for the Highlands & Islands 7/6/1979 - 10/6/1999 Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands & Islands 6/5/1999 - 1/5/2003) |
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| 25 | 5 years 11 months, 14 days Roseanna Cunningham Scottish National Party Perth & Kinross 25/6/1995 - 1/5/1997 Perth 1/5/1997 - 7/6/2001 (also: Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perth 6/5/1999 -) |
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| 26 | 5 years, 3 days on 7/5/2010 Katy Clark Labour North Ayrshire & Arran 5/5/2005 - |
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| 27 | 5 years, 3 days on 7/5/2010 Jo Swinson Shortest serving female Liberal/Liberal Democrat MP Liberal Democrat East Dunbartonshire 5/5/2005 - |
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| 28 | 4 years, 19 days Helen Shaw MBE Conservative & Unionist Bothwell 27/10/1931 - 14/11/1935 |
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| 29 | 4 years, 3 days Anna McCurley Shortest serving female Conservative MP Conservative & Unionist Renfrew West & Inverclyde 9/6/1983 - 11/6/1987 |
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| 30 | 3 years, 10 months, 29 days Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party Perth 7/6/2001 - 5/5/2005 |
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| 31 | 1 year, 6 months, 26 days Mary McAlistair Labour Glasgow Kelvingrove 13/3/1958 - 8/10/1959 |
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| 32 | 1 year, 3 months, 23 days Clarice Shaw Labour Kilmarnock 5/7/1945 - 27/10/1946 |
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| 33 | 6 months, 8 days Helen McElhone Shortest serving female Labour MP Labour Glasgow Queens Park 2/12/1982 - 9/6/1983 |
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| 34 | 3 months, 21 days Margo MacDonald Shortest serving female MP Scottish National Party Glasgow Govan 8/11/1973 - 28/2/1974 (also: SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians 6/5/1999 - 28/1/2003 Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Lothians 28/1/2003 -) |
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| 35 | 2 days (on 7/5/2010 Margaret Curran Labour Glasgow East 6/5/2010 - (also: Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Baillieston 6/5/1999 - ) |
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| 36 | 2 days (on 7/5/2010 Gemma Doyle Labour Dunbartonshire West 6/5/2010 - |
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| 37 | 2 days (on 7/5/2010 Sheila Gilmore Labour Edinburgh East 6/5/2010 - |
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| 38 | 2 days (on 7/5/2010 Cathy Jamieson Labour Kilmarnock & Loudoun 6/5/2010 - (also: Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley 6/5/1999 - ) |
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| 39 | 2 days (on 7/5/2010 Pamela Nash Labour Airdrie & Shotts 6/5/2010 - |
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| 40 | 2 days (on 7/5/2010 Fiona O'Donnell Labour East Lothian 6/5/2010 - |
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| 41 | 2 days (on 7/5/2010 Eilidh Whiteford Scottish National Party Banff & Buchan 6/5/2010 - |
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