# Christine May > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christine_May > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christine_May.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_May > Source revision: 1347507398 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Scottish politician This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Christine May" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Christine May Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Fife In office 1 May 2003 – 2 April 2007 Preceded by Henry McLeish Succeeded by Tricia Marwick Personal details Born (1948-03-23) 23 March 1948 (age 78) Dublin, Ireland Party Labour Co-operative **Christine May** (born 23 March 1948, in [Dublin](/source/Dublin)) is a [Scottish Labour](/source/Scottish_Labour) [Co-operative](/source/Co-operative_Party) politician. She was the [Member of the Scottish Parliament](/source/Member_of_the_Scottish_Parliament) (MSP) for [Central Fife](/source/Central_Fife_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)) constituency from 2003 to 2007.[1] Raised and educated in [Dublin](/source/Dublin), Christine worked in the catering industry in Dublin and then London, and first moved to Scotland in 1984, where she became a college lecturer.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] She was elected to the Central Fife seat after former [First Minister](/source/First_Minister_of_Scotland) [Henry McLeish](/source/Henry_McLeish) stood down as MSP following a scandal relating to the sub-letting of his constituency office – dubbed "[Officegate](/source/Officegate)" by the media. She had previously been leader of [Fife Council](/source/Fife_Council) from 1998. She represented a ward in [Kirkcaldy](/source/Kirkcaldy) as a councillor, and still lives in the town, which is just outside the Central Fife constituency. Her constituency office was based in [Glenrothes](/source/Glenrothes), adjacent to Fife Council's headquarters.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] In 2007, she lost her constituency to [SNP](/source/Scottish_National_Party) politician [Tricia Marwick](/source/Tricia_Marwick).[2] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Kevin Schofield (14 August 2008). ["Gordon Brown faces new by-election test after death of MP John MacDougall"](http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/08/14/gordon-brown-faces-new-by-election-test-after-death-of-mp-john-macdougall-86908-20696370). [Scottish Daily Record](/source/Scottish_Daily_Record). Retrieved 19 July 2010. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Martyn McLaughlin (4 May 2007). ["Defeats in key seats, but still a victorious evening"](http://www.heraldscotland.com/defeats-in-key-seats-but-still-a-victorious-evening-1.857356). *[The Herald](/source/The_Herald_(Glasgow))*. Glasgow. Retrieved 19 July 2010. ## External links - Scottish Parliament profiles of MSPs: [Christine May](https://www.parliament.scot/msps/current-and-previous-msps/christine-may) - [Christine May MSP](https://web.archive.org/web/20060104165932/http://www.christinemay.org.uk/) personal site - [Christine May MSP](https://web.archive.org/web/20060307104720/http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/centralfife1/) profile at the site of Scottish Labour Scottish Parliament Preceded by Henry McLeish Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Fife 2003–2007 Succeeded by Tricia Marwick v t e Former Labour Party MSPs By date first representing Scottish Labour in the Scottish Parliament 1999 Wendy Alexander Scott Barrie Sarah Boyack Rhona Brankin Bill Butler Malcolm Chisholm Cathie Craigie Margaret Curran Susan Deacon Donald Dewar Helen Eadie Patricia Ferguson Sam Galbraith Karen Gillon Trish Godman Rhoda Grant Iain Gray Hugh Henry John Home Robertson Janis Hughes Gordon Jackson Sylvia Jackson Cathy Jamieson Margaret Jamieson Andy Kerr Johann Lamont Marilyn Livingstone Jack McConnell Lewis Macdonald Angus MacKay Kate Maclean Ken Macintosh Maureen Macmillan Paul Martin John McAllion Frank McAveety Tom McCabe Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale Henry McLeish Michael McMahon Duncan McNeil Des McNulty Alasdair Morrison Bristow Muldoon Mary Mulligan Elaine Murray Irene Oldfather Peter Peacock Cathy Peattie Richard Simpson Elaine Smith Elaine Thomson Mike Watson Ian Welsh Karen Whitefield Allan Wilson 2001 Brian Fitzpatrick 2003 Richard Baker Marlyn Glen Christine May 2005 Charlie Gordon 2007 Baron Foulkes of Cumnock James Kelly John Park David Stewart David Whitton 2011 Claudia Beamish Kezia Dugdale Mary Fee Neil Findlay Hanzala Malik Jenny Marra Margaret McCulloch Margaret McDougall Siobhan McMahon Anne McTaggart Graeme Pearson John Pentland Drew Smith 2012 Jayne Baxter 2013 Cara Hilton 2014 Alex Rowley 2016 Lesley Brennan Monica Lennon Richard Leonard Colin Smyth 2021 Foysol Choudhury Pam Duncan-Glancy Paul O'Kane Mercedes Villalba Martin Whitfield 2025 Davy Russell This article about a member of the Scottish Parliament is a stub. 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