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Helen Eadie (born March 7, 1947, Stenhousemuir) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician and has represented Dunfermline East in the Scottish Parliament since 1999.
Eadie was educated at Larbert High School, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics where she received a Certificate in Trade Union Studies (Industrial Relations Department) in 1970. She is a member of the Church of Scotland, and is married with two grown up daughters. Prior to her election to Holyrood was a full time trade union official for the GMB and a councillor on Fife Council. Her father-in-law is former MP for Midlothian Alex Eadie. Eadie worked for both her father-in-law and also Harry Ewing at Westminster.
At Holyrood Eadie has been a member of the Transport and Environment Committee and served as Depute Convener of the Public Petitions Committee in the first session of the Scottish Parliament. Until 2003 Helen served as a member of the European Committee and currently in the second session of the Scottish Parliament is a member of both the Health Committee and the Public Petitions Committee.
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Elected in the 2007 election
SNP (6 seats), Labour (5 seats), Conservative (3 seats), Lib Dems (2 seats)
Constituency MSPs
Helen Eadie (Lab, Dunfermline East) • Jim Tolson (Lib Dem, Dunfermline West) • Tricia Marwick (SNP, Fife Central) • Iain Smith (Lib Dem, Fife North East) • Marilyn Livingstone (Lab, Kirkcaldy) • John Swinney (SNP, North Tayside) • Keith Brown (SNP, Ochil) • Roseanna Cunningham (SNP, Perth) • Bruce Crawford (SNP, Stirling)
Additional Members
Claire Baker (Lab) • Ted Brocklebank (Con) • Murdo Fraser (Con) • Chris Harvie (SNP) • John Park (Lab) • Richard Simpson (Lab) • Elizabeth Smith (Lab)
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