George Lyon (politician, 1956)

George Lyon

George Lyon (born July 16, 1956 in Rothesay , Isle of Bute ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats .

Lyon attended the Rothesay Academy and then worked as a self-employed farmer. He is a member and past President of the National Farmers Union of Scotland .

Political career

In the Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999 , Lyon ran for the constituency of Argyll and Bute and was able to secure the direct mandate before the SNP candidate Duncan Hamilton . In the parliamentary elections in 2003 he was able to defend his mandate by a clear margin. From 2005, Lyon was Deputy Minister for Finance and Parliamentary Business. After the parliamentary elections in 2007 , Lyon lost his mandate to the SNP politician Jim Mather .

At the European level, Lyon ran for the 2009 European elections and won one of two seats for the Liberal Democrats in the constituency of Scotland . As a result, he moved into the European Parliament for the first time . In the 2014 European elections , Lyons was the top candidate for the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Since the Liberal Democrats in Scotland received only 7.1% of the vote, the party did not win any of the six mandates to be awarded. Lyon subsequently left the European Parliament at the end of the electoral term.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on George Lyon in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
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.
6. ↑ BBC News: European Election 2009: Scotland
7. ^ Candidates for the European elections in Scotland
8. ^ Results of the European elections in Scotland