Margaret Smith (politician)

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Margaret Smith

Margaret Smith (* 1961 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats . She acted, among other things, as a whip in the parliamentary group of Liberal Democrats.

Smith attended Broughton High School and Edinburgh University and received a Masters degree in Art. In 1995 she was elected to the Edinburgh City Council and from 1997 acted as transport policy spokeswoman. For the first time, Smith ran in the Scottish general election in 1999 to national elections. She ran in the constituency of Edinburgh West and prevailed within the party against Donald Gorrie , who represented the constituency of the same name in the British House of Commons . Smith won the direct mandate before the conservative James Douglas-Hamilton and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament . She defended her mandate in the 2003 parliamentary elections . After the election, she confessed that she was in a same-sex relationship. In 2006 the couple married. Despite losing votes, Smith defended her direct mandate in the 2007 general election . Four years later she defeated in the parliamentary elections the SNP -Politiker Colin Keir and retired from the Parliament of.

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  1. ↑ a b Biographical information
  2. ^ Information from the Liberal Democrats ( Memento of February 5, 2012 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. ^ The Telegraph: Lib Dem MSP to have gay marriage
  6. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh