# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margaret-ritchie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:11.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margaret-ritchie"
name: "Margaret Ritchie"
slug: "margaret-ritchie"
description: "Margaret Mary Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick, is a Northern 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 the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Down from 2010 to 2017. She became a life peer in 2019 initially as a non-affiliated member, and then from October 2021 as a Labour member."
tagline: "Irish republican politician (born 1958)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Official_portrait_of_Baroness_Ritchie_of_Downpatrick_crop_2%2C_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1958-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.99
  momentum:             1.206543967280164
  historical:           4.619728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MRitchieMP"
    handle:    "MRitchieMP"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/margaretritchiesdlp"
    handle:    "margaretritchiesdlp"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.margaretritchie.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "مارجاريت ريتكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ritchie%2C_Baroness_Ritchie_of_Downpatrick"
    title: "Margaret Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ritchie_(baronne_Ritchie_de_Downpatrick)"
    title: "Margaret Ritchie (baronne Ritchie de Downpatrick)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ritchie"
    title: "Margaret Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ritchie%2C_baronessa_Ritchie_di_Downpatrick"
    title: "Margaret Ritchie, baronessa Ritchie di Downpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q501860"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump