Michelle Campbell

Michelle Simone Campbell (born 1983) is a Scottish politician and nurse who has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Renfrewshire North and Cardonald since 2026, representing the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Campbell has represented Erskine and Inchinnan on Renfrewshire Council since 2017. She applied to replace Derek Mackay in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. She previously worked for Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP Gavin Newlands. She was successfully elected at the constituency level.

Early life and career Campbell is of Ugandan heritage. Her grandparents fled Idi Amin's regime in the 1970s and lived on an RAF base for two years before moving to Glenrothes in Fife.

Campbell is a registered mental nurse with over two decades of experience in the NHS. She lives in the Erskine area of Renfrewshire.

Political career

Renfrewshire Council Campbell was first elected to Renfrewshire Council in 2017, representing the Erskine and Inchinnan ward (Ward 12) for the SNP. She was re-elected in the 2022 Scottish local elections in the same ward.

She also sat on the SNP's National Executive Committee. SNP won almost all constituency seats and under the proportional system didn’t reach the bar for list seats to be won

2026 Scottish Parliament election In April 2025, Campbell was confirmed as the SNP's candidate for the newly created Renfrewshire North and Cardonald constituency, having been the unopposed choice of local SNP members.

Candidate Party Votes % Michelle Campbell SNP 14,300 40.87 Mike McKirdy Labour 9,424 26.93 Moira Ramage Reform UK 7,083 20.24 Jack Hall Conservative 1,929 5.51 Grant Toghill Liberal Democrats 1,642 4.69 Jim Halfpenny TUSC 610 1.74 SNP majority 4,876 13.94 Turnout 34,988 53.51%

The result represented a notional swing of 2.9% from the SNP to Labour compared to the estimated 2021 notional result on the new boundaries.