Amy Callaghan is the Scottish National Party MP for East Dunbartonshire, having first been elected to Parliament in the 2019 general election, unseating the then Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson with a very narrow majority of 149 votes.
Dunbartonshire East is one of the most affluent seats in Scotland and covers the Glasgow commuter district of Bearsden, including the towns of North Clyde and Croy.
This is one of the few seats in Scotland that has variously been represented by all four parties in the last fifty years. A Lib Dem and Labour marginal at the start of the Twenty First Century, the seat has been an SNP – Lib Dem marginal in recent years, swinging between the parties in 2015, 2017 and 2019. In the 2019 General Election, this seat had the highest turnout in the UK, at 80.3%.
Amy Callaghan was appointed as the SNP spokesperson for Pensions and Intergenerational affairs in January 2020.
She currently serves as the SNP’s spokesperson for health and social care.
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Born in 1992, Amy Callaghan grew up in Clydebank and studied politics at the University of Strathclyde. She worked as the office manager for MSP Rona Mackay, before being elected to Parliament.
Callaghan previously recovered from skin cancer during her late teens, and has campaigned around the issue of cancer and mental health since becoming an MP. She is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children, Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer, and Vice Chair of the All Party Group on Cancer.
Callaghan owns a Maltese terrier dog called Alfie.
Twitter – @AmyCallaghanSNP
Email – amy.callaghan.mp@parliament.uk
