Siobhan McMahon

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Siobhan McMahon MSP

Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Scotland
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 May 2011
Personal details
Born	(1984-07-04) 4 July 1984
Nationality	Scottish
Political party	Labour
Religion	Roman Catholic Church

Siobhan McMahon (born 4 July 1984) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Central Scotland region.^[1]

McMahon was involved in the campaign to get Johann Lamont MSP to become Scottish Labour's leader.

Political career

Controversially, McMahon previously worked as a paid researcher for her serving MSP father, Michael McMahon.^[2] After the Scottish Parliament Election in 2011 Siobhan was elected as a regional list MSP and they became the first father and daughter pair to serve in the Scottish Parliament.^[3]

She has also worked for Labour MP Jim Murphy and as part of the Labour Support Unit in the Scottish Parliament.

McMahon graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University 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.

↑ The Scottish Parliament - Current Members - Siobhan McMahon
↑ Black, Andrew (27 November 2008). "Which MSPs are employing family?". BBC News. Retrieved 14 May 2011. "Over in the Labour camp, it is a family affair for Hamilton North and Bellshill MSP Michael McMahon, who pays wife Margaret and daughter Siobhan as parliamentary assistant and researcher respectively."
↑ Lindsey Johnstone and Mareike Brensing (6 May 2011). "Holyrood to get first blind MSP". The Herald. Retrieved 14 May 2011. "Another first is the election of a father and daughter, Michael and Siobhan McMahon. Mr McMahon was returned as MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill with a Labour majority of 714, while his daughter is one of three Labour MSPs representing the Central region."

Headquarters: Transport House, 290 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4RE

Leaders

Donald Dewar (1999–2000)
Henry McLeish (2000–2001)
Jack McConnell (2001–2007)
Wendy Alexander (2007–2008)
Iain Gray (2008–2011)
Johann Lamont (2011–)

Deputy Leaders

General Secretaries

Jack McConnell (1992–1998)
Alex Rowley (1998–1999)
Lesley Quinn (1999–2008)
Colin Smyth (2008–2013)
Ian Price (2013–)

Shadow cabinet	Johann Lamont (leader) Iain Gray (finance) Graeme Pearson (justice) Neil Findlay (health) Kezia Dugdale (education) James Kelly (infrastructure) Sarah Boyack (local government) Claire Baker (rural) Patricia Ferguson (culture) Drew Smith (constitution) Jackie Baillie (social justice) Paul Martin (parliamentary business and chief of staff) Lewis Macdonald (chief whip) Richard Baker (party policy review) Jenny Marra (youth employment and finance)

Deputy spokespersons	Claudia Beamish (environment/climate change) Neil Bibby (education) Mary Fee (housing) Rhoda Grant (wellbeing) Elaine Murray (community safety) Richard Simpson (public health)

Backbenchers	Jayne Baxter Malcolm Chisholm Hugh Henry Cara Hilton Mark Griffin Ken Macintosh Hanzala Malik Margaret McCulloch (deputy whip) Margaret McDougall Michael McMahon Siobhan McMahon Duncan McNeil Anne McTaggart John Pentland (deputy whip) Alex Rowley Elaine Smith David Stewart

Shadow cabinet	Douglas Alexander Margaret Curran Jim Murphy

Shadow ministers	Gordon Banks Russell Brown Thomas Docherty Gemma Doyle Tom Greatrex Cathy Jamieson Gregg McClymont Ian Murray

Backbenchers	Willie Bain Anne Begg Gordon Brown Katy Clark Tom Clarke Michael Connarty Alistair Darling Ian Davidson Brian Donohoe Frank Doran Sheila Gilmore David Hamilton Tom Harris Jimmy Hood Eric Joyce Mark Lazarowicz Michael McCann James McGovern Anne McGuire Ann McKechin Iain McKenzie Graeme Morrice Pamela Nash Fiona O'Donnell Sandra Osborne John Robertson Frank Roy Lindsay Roy Anas Sarwar James Sheridan

Organisation

v t e Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Central Scotland region

Elected in the 2011 election

Constituency MSPs	Alex Neil (SNP, Airdrie and Shotts) Elaine Smith (Lab, Coatbridge and Chryston) Jamie Hepburn (SNP, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth) Linda Fabiani (SNP, East Kilbride) Angus MacDonald (SNP, Falkirk East) Michael Matheson (SNP, Falkirk West) Christina McKelvie (SNP, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) John Pentland (Lab, Motherwell and Wishaw) Michael McMahon (Lab, Uddingston and Bellshill)

Additional members	Clare Adamson (SNP) Richard Lyle (SNP) Mark Griffin (Lab) Margaret Mitchell (Con) Siobhan McMahon (Lab) Margaret McCulloch (Lab) John Wilson (SNP)

Labour (6 seats), SNP (9 seats), Conservative (1 seat)

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