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Blackman was educated at Robert Gordon's College after winning a scholarship. [8] She matriculated at the University of Aberdeen to study medicine, but later dropped out.. She first entered politics when she was elected to Aberdeen City Council as an SNP councillor in the Hilton/Stockethill ward, in the Aberdeen North constituency in the 2007 Aberdeen City Council election topping the poll in ...
The Aberdeen City local authority area had a higher than average No vote. 84,094 voters in the area voted against independence (58.6%) while 59,390 voted in favour of independence (41.4%). The Aberdeen City council area had the third lowest turnout in Scotland with 143,484 valid ballot papers on a turnout of 81.7%, ahead of Dundee and Glasgow.
1 January – STV's Bringing in the Bells is hosted by Alex Norton, Blythe Duff, Martin Compston and others to see in the New Year. [1]4 June – 2024 United Kingdom general election: The first leaders debate takes place in Scotland, with the leaders of Scotland's four main political parties taking part in a debate on STV.
In April 2024, Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), faced a confidence challenge following his termination of the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, which meant that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, co-leaders of the Greens and their only government ministers, were removed from government. [2]
Pete Wishart has accused the UK Government of exacerbating the hardship facing households with the funding allocation.
Flynn previously worked as an assistant to Callum McCaig and in the office of Maureen Watt in Aberdeen. [6] [7] Flynn was first elected to Aberdeen City Council for the Kincorth/Nigg/Cove Ward in 2015 and served as leader of the SNP group on Aberdeen City Council from 2016 till his election to Parliament in 2019. [8]
The 2024 general election was held on 4 July 2024. 57 Scottish Westminster seats were contested. The election saw a resurgence of Labour within Scotland, with the party winning 37 seats, an increase of 36 from the previous election and becoming the largest party in Scotland for the first time since 2010.
Scotland was the first country in the UK to ban smoking in public places, with the ban effective from 26 March 2006. [17] Also, on 19 October 2017, the Scottish government announced that smacking children as punishment was to be banned in Scotland, the first nation of the UK to do so.