Gillian Mackay

Gillian Mackay
MSP
Affirming in 2021
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Central Scotland
(1 of 7 Regional MSPs)
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 May 2021
Personal details
Born
Gillian Audrey Mackay

(1991-08-11) 11 August 1991 (age 33)[1]
Falkirk, Scotland
Political partyScottish Greens
Alma materHeriot-Watt University
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Gillian Audrey Mackay[2] (born 1991) is a Scottish Green politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.[3] She is the first Green MSP ever to be elected in Central Scotland.[4]

Raised in Grangemouth, she is a graduate in marine biodiversity and biotechnology from Heriot-Watt University. She has the sensory disorder Ménière's disease.[5]

  1. ^ Statutory registers - Births - Search results, ScotlandsPeople
  2. ^ "2019 Westminster Parliamentary election results". Falkirk Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  3. ^ Mcilkenny, Stephen (8 May 2021). "Patrick Harvie says list votes for Greens up across Scotland". The Herald. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021.
  4. ^ Paterson, Kirsty (8 May 2021). "Scottish Election 2021 results: Scottish Greens win first MSP in Central Scotland". The Scotsman. Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  5. ^ Ross, Calum (12 October 2020). "On a whim: Gillian Mackay stumbled into politics but now is taking great strides". The Courier. Dundee. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 9 May 2021.