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  • Helen Eadie
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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 has worked for her father-in-law and Harry Ewing at Westminster, and was on James Callaghan's general election campaign team.
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term start
  • 1999-05-06
Majority
  • 3993
Birth Date
  • 1947-03-07
constituency MP
Name
  • Helen Eadie
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  • 150
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Party
Birth Place
Title
  • Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dunfermline East
Start
  • 1999
Before
  • Constituency Created
parliament
  • Scottish
honorific-suffix
Predecessor
  • new constituency
abstract
  • 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 has worked for her father-in-law and Harry Ewing at Westminster, and was on James Callaghan's general election campaign team. 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.