Margaret Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

Dienstag, 25. März 1958

Margaret Mary Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (born 25 March 1958 in Downpatrick), is an Irish politician who was the Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) from 2010 to 2011. She was previously a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Down from 2003 to 2012, and was the Minister for Social Development in the Northern Ireland Executive from 2007 to 2010. Ritchie was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Down in 2010, which she represented until losing her seat in 2017. She became a life peer in 2019 initially as a non-affiliated member and then from October 2021 as a Labour member.