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Preceded by
  
Bill Walker

Name
  
Cara Hilton

Majority
  
2,873

Role
  
Scottish Politician

Nationality
  
Scottish

Party
  
Scottish Labour Party


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Residence
  
Dunfermline, United Kingdom

Profiles


Political party
  
Scottish Labour Party

Cara hilton msp being sworn in and portfolio questions scottish parliament 30th october 2013


Cara Laura Hilton is a Scottish Labour Party politician, who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dunfermline from 2013 to 2016.

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Personal life

She is the daughter of former Labour MSP Cathy Peattie. Her husband is Simon, and she has three children.

Political career

Cara Hilton Dunfermline byelection New MSP Cara Hilton gives victory

Hilton was the Labour candidate at the Dunfermline by-election on 20 October 2013. She won by a majority of more than 2,800 votes, overturning a previous SNP majority of 590. This was the first time ever that Labour had won a parliamentary seat (in either the UK or Scottish parliaments) from the SNP at a by-election.

In her victory speech, Hilton praised the courage of preceding MSP Bill Walker's ex-wives. Walker's conviction for assault against his former wives had led to his resignation from parliament, causing the by-election. Alex Salmond accused her of running a dishonest campaign, including the circulation of a leaflet criticised by the SNP as "demonstrably untrue".

In the Scottish Parliament election of 2016, Hilton lost her seat to the SNP's Shirley-Anne Somerville, who she had previously defeated at the by-election three years earlier. Along with the loss of the neighbouring Cowdenbeath constituency, this left the Labour Party without parliamentary representation in Fife for the first time since 1910.

Hilton was the Labour Party candidate at the 2017 General Election where she came second behind the incumbent Douglas Chapman of the SNP by 844 votes.

References

Cara Hilton Wikipedia