How old is Nicola Sturgeon?
Nicola Sturgeon was born on July 19 1970. Ms Sturgeon will be 53 years old in the summer of 2023
What age did Nicola Sturgeon become First Minister?
Nicola Sturgeon was appointed First Minister of Scotland in November 2014. She took on the role at the age of 44.
Sturgeon became the longest ever serving First Minister. She previously served as Deputy First Minister under Alex Salmond. She stood down from the role at the age of 52.
Sturgeon was also elected SNP party leader at the age of 44, soon after the first Scottish independence referendum.
What age did Nicola Sturgeon become involved in Scottish politics?
Nicola Sturgeon joined the SNP party at the age of 16, citing Margaret Thatcher as the motivation, as opposed to the inspiration, for getting into politics.
At 21, Sturgeon was Scotland’s youngest candidate in the 1992 General Election. She stood for election in Glasgow Shettleston but polled just 19% of the vote. Sturgeon was a student at Glasgow University at the time.
After a career as a solicitor, Sturgeon was elected to the inaugural Scottish parliament in 1999, doing so at the age of just 28. Sturgeon on this occasion had stood unsuccessfully for election in Glasgow Govan, but ended up being elected on the regional list for the SNP in Glasgow.
Having served as a Scottish National Party shadow minister, Sturgeon entered the Scottish government in 2007 as the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing. Sturgeon joined the government at the age of 36.
How old is Nicola Sturgeon compared with other politicians?
Nicola Sturgeon is 6 years younger than former prime minister, Boris Johnson, who was born in 1964.
She is fifteen and half years younger than her predecessor, and later political rival, Mr Salmond.
Sturgeon is 15 years younger than the Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, but she is six years older, than Michelle O’Neil in Northern Ireland.
Sturgeon is the same age as Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, who was also born in 1970.
The average age of an MP in the United Kingdom is 51. Despite her political opposition to Westminster, Sturgeon would fit seamlessly into the House of Commons as far as age is concerned.
In 2022 during her last fall year in office, the average age of the cabinet in the Scottish government was 47. Sturgeon was thus older than the average age of her ministerial team, which includes two ministers born in the 1990s. Kate Forbes, the finance minister in the Scottish government was born in 1990. Forbes became Scottish finance minister at the age of just 30.
Nicola Sturgeon – Early life
Nicola Sturgeon was born in Irvine, Ayrshire.
Her mother, Joan Kerr Sturgeon, worked as a dental nurse. Her father, Robin Sturgeon, worked as an electrician. Sturgeon’s mother, Joan, was herself a Scottish politician and SNP provost of North Ayrshire.
Nicola Sturgeon has a younger sister, Gillian Ferguson. Gillian was previously a nurse, but in 2022 announced on Facebook that she was leaving the NHS to become a full-time psychic medium
Nicola Sturgeon married Peter Murrell, in the summer of 2010. She was 40 years old when the pair married. The couple do not have any children.
