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McCulloch, Margaret

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McCulloch, Margaret

Former (left at end of session) Scottish Labour Central Scotland

Politically, you're most like McMahon, Siobhan Lab — similarity 80.9/100.

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Divisions voted in
705
last on 17 Mar 2016
Party alignment
99.7%
0.3% rebellion
Attendance
86.2%
113 "Not Voted" of 818 divisions present
Motions lodged
29
262 questions · 0 unanswered
Hansard contributions
1,593
268 chamber · 1,325 committee
Allowances claimed
£2,362
14 transactions
Most-discussed topics in Hansard
social ·146 isolation ·146 employment ·110 race ·109 ethnicity ·109 taking ·38 business ·38 private ·38 question ·35 time ·35 subordinate ·33 legislation ·33
Recent motions & questions
  • Question
    S4O-05678 · 17 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30109 · 07 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30108 · 07 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4W-30016 · 02 Mar 2016
  • Question
    S4O-05534 · 10 Feb 2016
  • International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Motion
    S4M-15275 · 10 Feb 2016
  • Question
    S4W-29225 · 20 Jan 2016
  • Question
    S4W-29226 · 15 Jan 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
29
Carried
0
Defeated
0
Not divided
29
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).

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Career arc

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

  1. ☷
    Left Local Government and Regeneration Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  2. ☷
    Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  3. ⌂
    Stood down from Central Scotland (Dissolution)
    23 Mar 2016
  4. –
    Left Scottish Labour
    23 Mar 2016
  5. ☷
    Left Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
    02 Sep 2015
  6. ☷
    Joined Local Government and Regeneration Committee as Substitute Member
    08 Jan 2015
  7. ☷
    Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Convener
    05 Sep 2013
  8. ☷
    Left Equal Opportunities Committee
    05 Sep 2013
  9. ☷
    Left Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
    03 Sep 2013
  10. ☷
    Left Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee
    03 Sep 2013
  11. ☷
    Joined Equal Opportunities Committee as Member
    03 Sep 2013
  12. ☷
    Left Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
    03 Sep 2013
  13. ☷
    Joined Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee as Member
    03 Sep 2013
  14. ☷
    Joined Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee as Substitute Member
    05 Jun 2013
  15. ☷
    Left Subordinate Legislation Committee
    04 Jun 2013
  16. ☷
    Joined Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee as Member
    22 Dec 2011
  17. ☷
    Joined Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee as Member
    22 Dec 2011
  18. ☷
    Left Finance Committee
    21 Dec 2011
  19. ☷
    Joined Subordinate Legislation Committee as Substitute Member
    23 Jun 2011
  20. ☷
    Joined Finance Committee as Member
    01 Jun 2011
  21. ⌂
    Started representing Central Scotland
    05 May 2011
  22. +
    Joined Scottish Labour
    05 May 2011
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Whose motions they back most
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • General Question Time Chamber
    17 Mar 2016
    Even with the moratorium in place, people across Central Scotland are concerned about the impact of fracking and want to know that their leaders will fight aga…
  • General Question Time Chamber
    17 Mar 2016
    To ask the Scottish Government what impact fracking would have on Central Scotland. (S4O-05678)
  • Subordinate Legislation Committee
    10 Mar 2016
    That concludes the public part of today’s meeting. As this is likely to be our last meeting before dissolution, I thank everyone for their work this session. …
  • Subordinate Legislation Committee
    10 Mar 2016
    Thank you. Does the committee agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the instruments? Members indicated agreement.
  • Subordinate Legislation Committee
    10 Mar 2016
    Agenda item 2 is subordinate legislation. The committee is asked to consider two negative instruments, SSI 2016/66 and SSI 2016/67, both of which relate to gen…
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