Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone
In office 8 June 2017 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by
Tom Elliot
Succeeded by
TBC
In office 7 June 2001 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by
Ken Maginnis
Succeeded by
Tom Elliott
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone
In office 5 May 2016 – 9 June 2017
Preceded by
Bronwyn McGahan
Succeeded by
Colm Gildernew
In office 25 June 1998 – 1 July 2012
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Bronwyn McGahan
Personal details
Born
(1970-03-28) 28 March 1970 (age 54) Dungannon, Northern Ireland
Political party
Sinn Féin
Spouse
Jimmy Taggart
Children
3
Relatives
Colm Gildernew (brother)
Alma mater
University of Ulster
Michelle Angela Gildernew[1] (born 28 March 1970)[2] is an Irish Sinn Féin politician from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 2017 to 2024, after previously holding the seat from 2001 to 2015.
Gildernew is a former Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Northern Ireland Executive. She was the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 2001 to 2015, and was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for the Assembly constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone from June 1998 to July 2012.[3] She was re-elected to the Assembly in 2016 and 2017. In 2017 she reclaimed her Westminster seat from Tom Elliott of the Ulster Unionist Party. In 2019, she was re-elected with the smallest majority of any constituency in the UK, a margin of just 57 votes.
Gildernew is Sinn Féin's health spokesperson, and has been a member of the party's Ard Chomhairle (National Executive). In the 2007–2011 Assembly, she served as Vice Chair of the Committee of Social Development and was a member of the Committee of the centre, as well as other statutory and ad-hoc committees.[4]
^"No. 8218". The Belfast Gazette. 23 December 2019. p. 1002.
^Brunskill, Ian (19 March 2020). The Times guide to the House of Commons 2019 : the definitive record of Britain's historic 2019 General Election. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-00-839258-1. OCLC 1129682574.
^Whyte, Nicholas. "Elections: Northern Ireland ELECTIONS: Fermanagh and South Tyrone 1998". ARK. Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
^"Minister Michelle Gildernew MP, MLA". Fermanagh South Tyrone Sinn Féin. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
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