Editing Annabelle Ewing (section)

==Political career==
Ewing was first selected as a SNP candidate for the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|UK Parliament]] to contest a [[1999 Hamilton South by-election|by-election for Hamilton South in 1999]], the constituency where her mother had won a famous [[1967 Hamilton by-election|by-election victory in 1967]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/434099.stm |title=Ewing to stand in by-election |work=[[BBC News]] |date=30 August 1999}}</ref> Labour had a comfortable majority at the 1997 election and despite a swing of 16% to the SNP in 1999, [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour's]] [[Bill Tynan]] won the seat.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/456130.stm |title=Labour scrapes home |work=[[BBC News]] |date=24 September 1999}}</ref>

In 2001, Ewing stood for the UK Parliament again, this time in Perth, where [[Roseanna Cunningham]] had been the MP. Ewing was elected, defeating the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] candidate by just 48 votes,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/455.stm |title=Vote 2001: Results & Constituencies. Perth |work=BBC News |access-date=19 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/664.stm |title=Annabelle Ewing |work=BBC News |date=10 February 2005 |access-date=22 November 2014}}</ref> giving her the narrowest majority in Scotland. In the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 election]], following a boundary revision, she contested the new constituency of [[Ochil and South Perthshire]], losing to the Labour party candidate, [[Gordon Banks (politician)|Gordon Banks]].

She sought to become SNP candidate for [[Moray (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Moray]] in the [[2006 Moray by-election|27 April 2006 Scottish Parliament by-election]] to succeed her late sister-in-law, [[Margaret Ewing]]. She was defeated by [[North East Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|North East Scotland]] MSP [[Richard Lochhead]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4581640.stm|title= Salmond closer to Holyrood return |work=BBC News |date=2006-01-04|access-date=2006-03-22}}</ref> who went on to win the seat in the by-election.

She was later selected to contest the [[Falkirk East (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Falkirk East]] seat in the [[2007 Scottish Parliament election|2007 election]] on behalf of the SNP as a replacement for the previously selected candidate, the late [[Douglas Henderson (SNP politician)|Douglas Henderson]]. On 3 May 2007 she achieved a 9% swing from Labour to the SNP in Falkirk East, however this was not enough to displace the incumbent [[Cathy Peattie]].

She contested Ochil and South Perthshire for a second time at the [[2010 United Kingdom general election|2010 election]], failing again to take it from Gordon Banks, this time on an increased (4%) swing away from the SNP to Labour. At the [[2011 Scottish Parliament election|2011 election]] Ewing was elected to the Scottish Parliament as an additional member for the [[Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region)|Mid Scotland and Fife]] region.

She is famed due to an incident that occurred on 16 December 2004, whereby the Deputy Speaker removed her from the House as she refused to apologise for calling the then Defence Secretary [[Geoff Hoon]] a "back-stabbing coward"<ref>{{cite hansard |title=Commons Debate: Future Infantry Structure| url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/vo041216/debtext/41216-09.htm#41216-09_spnew8 | house=House of Commons | date=16 December 2004}}</ref> during exchanges over Geoff Hoon's plans to merge [[Scottish Regiments]], including the [[Black Watch]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4101901.stm |title=MP thrown out of House of Commons |work=BBC News |date=16 December 2004}}</ref>

She was promoted to the [[Scottish Government]] on 21 November 2014 in [[Nicola Sturgeon|Nicola Sturgeon's]] first Cabinet reshuffle. She became [[Minister for Youth and Women's Employment]], transferring to the Community Safety and Legal Affairs portfolio in 2016. She left the government in June 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/news/16CCDE47C6220D98?p=UKNB|title=Robison quits as Sturgeon shuffles pack - SNP leader to retain close ties to outgoing 'colleague and friend'|last=Cramb|first=Auslan|date=27 June 2018|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>

After being re-elected in the [[2021 Scottish Parliament election|2021 election]], Ewing was elected as one of the two [[Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament#List of deputy presiding officers|Deputy Presiding Officers of the Scottish Parliament]].<ref name="holyrood-mag-2021-dpo">{{cite news |last1=Davidson |first1=Jenni |title=Scottish Parliament's deputy presiding officers elected after five-hour voting session |url=https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,scottish-parliaments-deputy-presiding-officers-elected-after-five-hour-voting-session |access-date=17 May 2021 |work=[[Holyrood (magazine)|Holyrood]] |location=Edinburgh |date=14 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517003012/https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,scottish-parliaments-deputy-presiding-officers-elected-after-five-hour-voting-session |archive-date=17 May 2021}}</ref> On 20 April 2023, after a particularly robust intervention from Fergus Ewing on the subject of gas extraction, she had to remind him officially about treating fellow members with respect. First Minister [[Humza Yousaf]] then quipped that he suspected it was not the first time she had had to tell her brother off.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-65339658|title=SNP MSP Fergus Ewing calls Greens 'wine bar revolutionaries'|work=BBC News|date=2023-04-20|access-date=2023-04-21}}</ref>

On 2 March 2025, she announced she would stand down at the [[2026 Scottish Parliament election]].<ref>{{cite news |date=2 March 2025 |title=Annabelle Ewing announces she will not run for re-election in 2026 |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/24975035.annabelle-ewing-announces-will-not-run-re-election-2026/ |access-date=2 March 2025 |work=The National}}</ref>