Katy Clark
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Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire and Arran |
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In office 5 May 2005 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Brian Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Gibson |
| Majority | 9,895 (21.5%) |
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3 July 1967 Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Aberdeen |
| Website | www.katyclark.org.uk |
Kathryn Sloan Clark (born 3 July 1967) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Ayrshire and Arran from the 2005 to the 2015 general election when she lost her seat to Patricia Gibson, the SNP candidate.
Clark went to Ayr Grammar Primary School then Kyle Academy, both in Ayr, before attending the University of Aberdeen, receiving an LLB in 1990. She was the chairwoman of the Labour club there. She received a Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Edinburgh in 1991. She was a solicitor in Edinburgh and Musselburgh from 1991-8 and then a legal officer with UNISON in London from 1998-2005. She joined the Labour Party at the age of seventeen and is a member of the TGWU and UNISON. Her great-great grandfather, former coal-miner Alexander Sloan, was Labour MP for South Ayrshire from 1939 until his death in 1946.
She unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale at the 1997 general election, a traditional Conservative and Scottish National Party (SNP) marginal. She finished in third place behind the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Ian Lang who lost his seat to the SNP's Alasdair Morgan.
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