Alison Harris
{{Short description|Scottish politician (born 1965)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Alison Harris
| honorific-suffix =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|07|23|df=yes}}
| image = AlisonHarrisMSP.jpg
| imagesize = 220px
| caption = Harris in 2016
| office = Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Central Scotland
{{nobold|(1 of 7 Regional MSPs)}}
| termstart = 5 May 2016
| termend = 5 May 2021
| predecessor = John Wilson
| successor =
| profession = Chartered accountant
| nationality = British
| party = Scottish Conservatives
}}
Alison Ada Harris (born 23 July 1965) is a Scottish Conservative Party politician, who served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Central Scotland from 2016 to 2021.
Political career
= Westminster elections =
Harris stood unsuccessfully in the 2015 United Kingdom general election for the Westminster constituency of Falkirk. She came third out of the five candidates with 7,325 votes increasing the vote share to 12.13%{{Cite web|url=http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/council-democracy/elections-voting/election-results/westminster-parliamentary-election-results.aspx|title=Election results – Westminster Parliamentary election results|website=www.falkirk.gov.uk|access-date=2016-05-06}}
= Scottish Parliament =
For the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Harris was selected to contest the Falkirk West constituency and was placed third on the Conservatives' Central region list, behind Margaret Mitchell MSP and Graham Simpson MSP. Margaret Mitchell was re-elected and both Simpson and Harris were elected to the Scottish Parliament for the first time on the Central region list.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2015/12/list-rankings-announced-for-four-scottish-regions/|title=List rankings announced for four Scottish regions – Scottish Conservatives|date=2015-12-12|website=Scottish Conservatives|language=en-US|access-date=2016-05-07}}
Harris was the Scottish Conservative spokesperson for taxation and financial sustainability.{{cite web|title=Scottish Conservative appointments for new parliamentary term|url=http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2016/05/scottish-conservative-appointments-for-new-parliamentary-term/|website=Scottish Conservative Party|accessdate=26 May 2016|archive-date=27 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327145903/http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2016/05/scottish-conservative-appointments-for-new-parliamentary-term/|url-status=dead}} She was deputy convener of the Public Audit Committee.{{cite web|title=Alison Harris MSP|url=http://www.parliament.scot/msps/currentmsps/alison-harris-msp.aspx|website=Scottish Parliament|accessdate=23 June 2016}}
References
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External links
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Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:British women accountants
Category:Members of the Scottish Parliament 2016–2021
Category:Female members of the Scottish Parliament
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