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Urquhart, Jean

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Urquhart, Jean

Former (left at end of session) Independent Highlands and Islands

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Politically, you're most like Hepburn, Jamie SNP — similarity 81.4/100.

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Divisions voted in
741
last on 17 Mar 2016
Party alignment
90.8%
9.2% rebellion
Attendance
90.6%
77 "Not Voted" of 818 divisions present
Motions lodged
98
147 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
1,108
252 chamber · 856 committee
Allowances claimed
£7,502
46 transactions
Most-discussed topics in Hansard
fiscal ·160 bill ·110 budget ·89 stage ·77 devolution ·70 draft ·64 framework ·56 public ·51 scrutiny ·46 finances ·39 post-2014 ·39 united ·34
Recent motions & questions
  • Question
    S4W-30163 · 22 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30160 · 22 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30332 · 18 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30168 · 18 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30166 · 18 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30164 · 18 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30161 · 18 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30159 · 18 Mar 2016
Recent rebellions

Divisions where they voted against their party's majority position.

Motion success

Of the motions they've lodged that went to a vote, how often did the chamber agree.

Lodged
98
Carried
0
Defeated
1
Not divided
97

Of the 1 motion that went to a vote, 0.0% were carried.

Closest voting allies

MSPs who voted the same way most often across shared divisions.

Furthest apart on votes

MSPs they vote against most often.

MSPs like this one

Composite of voting agreement, sponsorship overlap, and Hansard topic affinity. Weighted 50 / 25 / 25.

Voice fingerprint

Words and phrases this MSP uses far more often than the chamber average (TF-IDF over their Hansard contributions).

crofting woodlot obr ttip woodlot licences al-anon nato playfair steps trident humankind index land tax muslims
Voting drift across sessions

Rebellion rate (vs party majority) per session.

12.8%
S4 · Ind
0.9%
S4 · SNP
Career arc

Unified timeline: party joinings, seat changes, committee appointments, ministerial roles.

  1. ☷
    Left Finance Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  2. ⌂
    Stood down from Highlands and Islands (Dissolution)
    23 Mar 2016
  3. –
    Left Independent
    23 Mar 2016
  4. ☷
    Left National Galleries of Scotland Bill Committee
    19 Jan 2016
  5. ☷
    Joined National Galleries of Scotland Bill Committee as Member
    02 Sep 2015
  6. ☷
    Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    25 Oct 2012
  7. –
    Left Scottish National Party
    23 Oct 2012
  8. +
    Joined Independent
    23 Oct 2012
  9. ☷
    Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    20 Sep 2012
  10. ☷
    Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Deputy Convener
    20 Sep 2012
  11. ☷
    Joined Finance Committee as Member
    18 Sep 2012
  12. ☷
    Left Education and Culture Committee
    18 Sep 2012
  13. ☷
    Left Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee
    23 Feb 2012
  14. ☷
    Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Member
    23 Feb 2012
  15. ☷
    Joined Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee as Substitute Member
    23 Jun 2011
  16. ☷
    Joined Education and Culture Committee as Member
    01 Jun 2011
  17. ⌂
    Started representing Highlands and Islands
    05 May 2011
  18. +
    Joined Scottish National Party
    05 May 2011
Who backs their motions most
Whose motions they back most
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Prevention Committee
    09 Mar 2016
    Thank you.
  • Prevention Committee
    09 Mar 2016
    Thank you. One of the other issues that arose was the potential for much longer-term planning, whereby we would have a joint vision for Scotland and would spr…
  • Prevention Committee
    09 Mar 2016
    I quite agree that getting everyone to take fewer prescribed drugs is desirable but, at the same time, do you agree that there are questions to be raised about…
  • Prevention Committee
    09 Mar 2016
    Perhaps that is what she meant. I did not have time to ask. We hear people talking every day about the fact that they got a prescription with 40 pills but they…
  • Prevention Committee
    09 Mar 2016
    Good. One statement that has stayed in my mind from the earlier discussion was from Aileen Bryson of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, who said that we use onl…
Committee & government roles

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