Kirsty Blackman was first elected as the SNP MP for Aberdeen North in 2015 at the age of 29, being reelected in 2019 with a majority of 12,670.
Aberdeen North cover the most deprived areas of the otherwise relatively affluent city of Aberdeen, and this was a safe Labour seat up until the SNP gained the seat in their landslide year of 2015. This constituency contains Aberdeen University.
Blackman was the SNP’s Deputy Leader at Westminster between 2017 and 2020.
In late 2021, Blackman revealed how three people have been prosecuted for abusing her since she has become an MP. She said one of the men sent her a threatening letter, another was “verbally abusive” and the third “travelled from the south of England to Aberdeen where he was intercepted by police.”
Born in 1986 Blackman worked for a number of SNP Members of the Scottish Parliament before being elected to Westminster. She previously served as a Councillor on Aberdeen City Council between 2007 and 2015.
Kirsty Blackman is Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on the British Offshore Oil and Gas Industry; Fair Business Banking; Financial Markets and Services; and Infant Feeding and Inequalities.
Blackman is married with 2 children,
Email: kirsty.blackman.mp@parliament.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abdnnorthkirsty
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