Female MPs

'I was a threat at that time, or seemed a threat, to both parties because they had a nice cosy carve-up. It was either a Labour seat or a Tory seat and a few marginals. They knew where they were. They had the trades union hacks and they had the local lairds and it was all nice and tidy. And low and behold, a safe majority like Hamilton toppled and they suddenly thought, 'If this can happen in Hamilton, it can happen anywhere.' And in the words of Oliver Brown 'A shiver ran along the Scottish Labour benches looking for a spine to run up.'' Winnie Ewing talking about her 1967 Hamilton by-election victory for the SNP.

Women representing Scottish Constituencies since 1923

	Name, Party & Constituency
1	Katherine Marjory Stewart Murray, Duchess of Atholl DBE First female MP First female minister Conservative & Unionist Kinross & Western Perthshire, 8/12/1923 - 21/12/1938
2	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
3	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
4	Helen Shaw MBE Conservative & Unionist Bothwell 27/10/1931 - 14/11/1935
5	Agnes Hardie Labour Glasgow Springburn 7/9/1937 - 5/7/1945
6	Rt Hon Margaret McCrorie Herbison Labour Lanarkshire North 5/7/1945 - 18/6/1970
7	Jean Mann Labour Coatbridge 5/7/1945 - 8/11/1959
8	Clarice Shaw Labour Kilmarnock 5/7/1945 - 27/10/1946
9	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
10	Alice Cullen Labour Glasgow Gorbals 30/9/1948 - 31/5/1969
11	Mary McAlistair Labour Glasgow Kelvingrove 13/3/1958 - 8/10/1959
12	Rt Hon Betty Harvie Anderson OBE TD, later Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter Conservative & Unionist Renfrewshire East 8/10/1959 - 3/5/1979
13	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
14	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)
15	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 -
16	Helen McElhone Shortest serving female Labour MP Labour Glasgow Queens Park 2/12/1982 - 9/6/1983
17	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)
18	Anna McCurley Shortest serving female Conservative MP Conservative & Unionist Renfrew West & Inverclyde 9/6/1983 - 11/6/1987
19	Maria Fyfe Labour Glasgow Maryhill 11/6/1987 - 7/6/2001
20	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
21	Katherine Patricia Irene Adams, later Baroness Adams of Craigielea Labour Paisley North 29/11/1990 - 5/5/2005
22	Rachel Squire Labour Dunfermline West 9/4/1992 - 5/5/2005 Dunfermline & West Fife 5/5/2005 - 5/1/2006
23	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
24	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 -)
25	Anne Begg Labour Aberdeen South 1/5/1997 -
26	Dr Lynda Margaret Clark QC, later Baroness Clark of Calton Labour Edinburgh Pentlands 1/5/1997 - 5/5/2005
27	Anne McGuire Labour Stirling 1/5/1997 - 12/4/2010
28	Rosemary McKenna CBE Labour Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 1/5/1997 - 5/5/2005 Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East 5/5/2005 -
29	Sandra Osborne Labour Ayr 1/5/1997 - 5/5/2005 Ayr, Carrick ∓ Cumnock 5/5/2005 -
30	Annabelle Ewing Scottish National Party Perth 7/6/2001 - 5/5/2005
31	Ann McKechin Labour Glasgow Maryhill 7/6/2001 - 5/5/2005 Glasgow North 5/5/2005 -
32	Anne Picking, later Anne Moffat Labour East Lothian 7/6/2001 - 12/4/2010
33	Katy Clark Labour North Ayrshire & Arran 5/5/2005 -
34	Jo Swinson Shortest serving female Liberal/Liberal Democrat MP Liberal Democrat East Dunbartonshire 5/5/2005 -
35	Margaret Curran Labour Glasgow East 6/5/2010 -
36	Gemma Doyle Labour Dunbartonshire West 6/5/2010 -
37	Sheila Gilmore Labour Edinburgh East 6/5/2010 -
38	Cathy Jamieson Labour Kilmarnock & Loudoun 6/5/2010 -
39	Pamela Nash Labour Airdrie & Shotts 6/5/2010 -
40	Fiona O'Donnell Labour East Lothian 6/5/2010 -
41	Eilidh Whiteford Scottish National Party Banff & Buchan 6/5/2010 -