Jim Eadie (politician)


Jim Eadie is a Scottish politician who was the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Edinburgh Southern constituency 2011−2016.

Early life

Eadie was born on 10 February 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at Waverley Secondary School and the University of Strathclyde.
Eadie worked for the Royal College of Nursing and Scottish Television, before becoming head of the Scottish branch of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry in 2002. He left the ABPI in 2007 to start a healthcare consulting business.

Political career

Eadie contested the seat of Edinburgh Southern in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, and defeated the Liberal Democrat incumbent Mike Pringle by a narrow margin of 693 votes, reversing a notional majority of almost 4,000. In the same election, he was the eleventh list candidate for the SNP in the Lothian region.
Eadie was one of seven LGBT MSPs during the 4th Scottish Parliament.
He was Convener of the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee 2014−2016.
He stood again in the Edinburgh Southern seat in 2016, although was not elected.
He was selected to stand in the Edinburgh South constituency at the 2017 Westminster election.