Cara Hilton

Cara Hilton
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dunfermline
In office 25 October 2013 – 24 March 2016
Preceded by	Bill Walker
Succeeded by	Shirley-Anne Somerville
Personal details
Nationality	Scottish
Political party	Scottish Labour Party
Residence	Dunfermline

Cara Laura Hilton is a Scottish Labour Party politician, who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dunfermline from 2013 to 2016.

Personal life

She is the daughter of former Labour MSP Cathy Peattie. Her husband is Simon, and she has three children.

Political career

Hilton was the Labour candidates at the Dunfermline by-election on 20 October 2013. She won by a majority of more than 2,800 votes, overturning a previous SNP majority of 590. This was the first time ever that Labour had won a parliamentary seat (in either the UK or Scottish parliaments) from the SNP at a by-election.

In her victory speech, Hilton praised the courage of preceding MSP Bill Walker's ex-wives. Walker's conviction for assault against his former wives had led to his resignation from parliament, causing the by-election. Alex Salmond accused her of running a dishonest campaign, including the circulation of a leaflet criticised by the SNP as "demonstrably untrue".

In the Scottish Parliament election of 2016, Hilton lost her seat to the Scottish National Party's Shirley-Anne Somerville. Along with the loss of the neighbouring Cowdenbeath constituency, this left the Labour Party without parliamentary representation in Fife for the first time since 1910.