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Mhairi Black
MP
Official portrait, 2019
Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party in the House of Commons
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 December 2022
Leader
Stephen Flynn
Preceded by
Kirsten Oswald
SNP Scotland Spokesperson in the House of Commons
In office 7 January 2020 – 6 December 2022
Leader
Ian Blackford
Preceded by
Tommy Sheppard
Succeeded by
Philippa Whitford
Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by
Douglas Alexander
Majority
10,679 (24.8%)
Personal details
Born
(1994-09-12) 12 September 1994 (age 29) Paisley, Scotland
Political party
Scottish National Party
Spouse
Katie McGarvey
(m. 2022)
Education
Lourdes Secondary School
Alma mater
University of Glasgow
Website
mhairiblack.scot
Mhairi Black (/ˈmæri/;[a] born 12 September 1994) is a Scottish politician who has served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons since December 2022.[1]
She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley and Renfrewshire South since 2015, when she defeated the Labour Party's Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander.[2] She was re-elected in 2017 and again in 2019.[3][4]
When elected in May 2015, she was 20 years and 237 days old, making her the youngest MP elected to the House of Commons since the Reform Act of 1832, the previous record having been held by William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, who was 20 years and 11 months old when elected in 1832.[5] Black was the youngest member of the House from 2015 to 2019.[6] Black remains the SNP's youngest MP.
On 4 July 2023, Black announced that she would not seek re-election as an MP at the next general election.
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^"General Election 2015 Results: Paisley & Renfrewshire South". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^Young, Gregor (8 June 2017). "Mhairi Black defies exit poll odds by holding Paisley & Renfrewshire South". The National. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
^"Paisley & Renfrewshire South parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
^Rix, Kathryn (11 May 2015). "The youngest MP? The 'baby' of the first Reformed Parliament". The Victorian Commons. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
^Lusher, Adam (8 May 2015). "General Election 2015: Mhairi Black: The 20-year-old who could become the youngest MP since 1667". The Independent. Archived from the original on 19 February 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
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