She is a 20-year-old Scottish student who likes football, describes Smirnoff Ice as the drink of gods and is studying for her final exams at university.
But Mhairi Black has pulled off one of the biggest shocks of the election winning the Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat from Labour heavyweight and former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander and becoming the youngest MP since 1667.
The SNP candidate last night took 23,548 votes compared to the former cabinet minister's 17,854 as the SNP picked up a record number of seats in Scotland.
Miss Black, who is studying politics, is in her final year at Glasgow University and won the constituency from Mr Alexander, who was first elected when she was just a toddler.
The Partick Thistle football fan says she has always been politically motivated 'particularly for the pursuit of social justice'.
Her father Alan, a retired teacher helped guide her election campaign after having grown up in the east end of Paisley.
Miss Black says she joined the SNP and became a parliamentary candidate after witnessing 'the level of poverty and injustice prevalent in our society.'
On her website she says: 'I truly believe that the only way to bring the powers we were promised, and the social justice that Scotland so desperately needs, is to have a strong group of SNP MPs at Westminster to ensure our voices are heard.'
But she attracted attention early in her campaign when the SNP faced calls to sack her as a candidate in February after footage of her speaking at a pro-independence rally in October last year showed her labelling some of those who rejected independence as 'gullible' and 'selfish'.
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