Margo MacDonald
Margo MacDonald (born April 19, 1943 in Hamilton , † April 4, 2014 ) was a Scottish politician and former member of the separatist Scottish National Party . MacDonald attended Hamilton Academy and Dunfermline College . She then worked briefly as a teacher, then as a freelance journalist and finally in the media sector. She was married to the politician Jim Sillars .
British House of Commons
For the first time Gray appeared in the British general election in 1970 to national elections. She applied for the direct mandate of the Paisley constituency , but only received around 7.3% of the vote. In 1973 she applied for the direct mandate in the new elections in the Glasgow Govan constituency . It received the highest number of votes and entered the House of Commons for the first time . In the following general election in February 1974 she lost her parliamentary seat to the Labor politician Harry Selby . Her term of office was therefore only 112 days. In the British general election in October 1974 she was unable to regain her seat. Between 1974 and 1979 she was then deputy party leader of the SNP. MacDonald tried one last time to win a seat in the House of Commons in the new elections in the Hamilton constituency in 1978, but was defeated by Labor candidate George Robertson .
Scottish Parliament
For the first Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999 MacDonald applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Edinburgh South , but was defeated by the Labor candidate Angus MacKay . Since she was placed on the first rank of the regional electoral list of the SNP for the electoral region Lothians , she moved as one of seven candidates on the electoral list in the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election results . After internal party disagreements, MacDonald was placed on the regional electoral list for the 2003 general election from first to fifth place, which practically ruled out their re-election. In response, she announced that she would run as an independent candidate and was subsequently expelled from the SNP. In the elections, as an independent candidate, she received 10.2% of the votes and thus defended her parliamentary seat. In the parliamentary elections in 2007 and 2011 , she defended her mandate again. With MacDonald's death in April 2014, the number of MPs in the Scottish Parliament was reduced for the first time during an electoral term. Since there can be no successor for her as an independent list candidate, the seat remained vacant until the following parliamentary elections.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information from the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2012 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.
- ↑ a b c BBC News: Margo expelled from SNP
- ^ Biographical information ( Memento from January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Results of the 1970 lower house elections ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 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.
- ↑ a b BBC News: Scottish election: Margo MacDonald sets out stall
- ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections in February 1974 ( Memento of the original from June 16, 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.
- ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections in October 1974 ( Memento of the original from May 8, 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.
- ^ Obituary for Margo MacDonald
- ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
- ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
- ↑ BBC News: Independent MSP Margo MacDonald dies , April 5, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacDonald, Margo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamilton |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 2014 |