Christine May

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Christine May (born March 23, 1948 in Dublin ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labor Party .

May was a member of the Kirkcaldy District Council from 1988 and then from 1995 the Fife Regional Council . For the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2003 May stood as a candidate of the Labor Party for the constituency of Central Fife , which the resigned Labor politician and intermediate First Minister Henry McLeish won in the previous election . May won the mandate with a clear lead over the SNP candidate , Tricia Marwick , and entered the Scottish Parliament for the first time . Although she had to accept only a slight loss of votes in the following parliamentary elections in 2007 , this time she was defeated by Tricia Marwick, who was able to record significant gains in votes. In the parliamentary elections in 2011 May did not run again.

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  1. ↑ a b Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ BBC News: Q&A: Officegate , November 6, 2001
  3. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  4. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  5. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME May, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin