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Cathie Craigie (born April 14, 1954, Stirling) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency since 1999. She was re-elected in 2003 with a majority of 520 votes, and increased this to 2,079 in 2007, partly thanks to the fact that the Scottish Socialist Party either chose not to field a candidate as they had in 2003, or were in too weak a position to do so following the division of the left over the Tommy Sheridan faction split and the establishment of Solidarity (Scotland). .[1]
Educated at Kilysth Academy, she was council leader of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth from 1994 to 1996. She is a member of the Justice committee and Vice-Convenor of the Standards and Procedures Committee at the Scottish Parliament. She was the first woman to successfully steer a Member's Bill, The Mortgage Rights (Scotland) Act, which provides greater protection for those facing repossession, through the parliament. Craigie is also the convenor of the Cross-Party group on Deafness, and is particularly interested in issues about health, housing and social justice.
Craigie was re-elected to represent the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election with an increased majority of 2,079.
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Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Central Scotland region  |
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Elected in the 2007 election
Labour (8 seats), SNP (7 seats), Conservative (1 seat), Lib Dems (1 seat)
Constituency MSPs
Karen Whitefield (Lab, Airdrie and Shotts) • Elaine Smith (Lab, Coatbridge and Chryston) • Cathie Craigie (Lab, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) • Andy Kerr (Lab, East Kilbride) • Cathy Peattie (Lab, Falkirk East) • Michael Matheson (SNP, Falkirk West) • Michael McMahon (Lab, Hamilton North and Bellshill) • Tom McCabe (Lab, Hamilton South) • Willie Coffey (SNP, Kilmarnock and Loudoun) •Jack McConnell (Lab, Motherwell and Wishaw)
Additional Members
Linda Fabiani (SNP) • Jamie Hepburn (SNP) • Christina McKelvie (SNP) • Margaret Mitchell (Con) • Alex Neil (SNP) • Hugh O'Donnell (Lib Dem) • John Wilson (SNP)
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