John Home Robertson

John Home Robertson (* 1948 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish politician of the Labor Party .

Life

Home Robertson attended Ampleforth College in Yorkshire and the West of Scotland Agricultural College at Ayr . He ran Paxton House in the Scottish Borders , which he inherited from his parents, and later donated it to the state. Today it houses a collection of paintings from the National Galleries of Scotland .

British House of Commons

In 1974 Home Robertson was elected to the Berwickshire County Council. When John Mackintosh , the Labor MP for the Berwick and East Lothian constituency, died in 1978 , new elections were scheduled there, with Home Robertson running. He won the direct mandate and moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the 1979 regular general election , he narrowly defended his mandate. Before the 1983 general election , the constituency of Berwickshire and East Lothian was dissolved. In the 1983 election, Home Robertson ran for the direct mandate of the newly created constituency of East Lothian . He won this with a clear lead and thus defended his House of Commons. In the following general election in 1987 , 1992 and 1997 he defended his mandate. At the general election in 2001 , he has not raced for more. Home Robertson was the whip in the Labor Party opposition faction . In Parliament, he was involved in defense and Scotland.

Scottish Parliament

In the first Scottish general election in 1999, Home Robertson ran in the constituency of East Lothian . He won the direct mandate of the constituency with a clear lead over the SNP candidate and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament . In the following parliamentary elections in 2003 , he defended his mandate and left parliament at the end of the legislative period.

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
2. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
3. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ Results of the British General Election 1979
5. ↑ Results of the British general election in 1983 ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Results of the British general election in 1987 ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of the British general election in 1992 ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the British General Elections 1997 and 2001 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
10. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website