Mike Pringle (politician)

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Mike Pringle (born December 25, 1945 in Northern Rhodesia ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats .

Political career

Pringle studied at the University of Edinburgh and then worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland until he became self-employed in 1972. In 1982 Pringle joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the predecessor party to the Liberal Democrats. In the same year he applied for a seat on the Lothian Regional Council, which he did not win. Morningside was elected to the Edinburgh District Council in 1992, Lothian Regional Council in 1994 and Edinburgh City Council in 1995. In the Edinburgh city council elections in 1999 and 2003, he defended his mandate.

Parliamentary elections

In the 1997 general election, Pringle ran in the constituency of Edinburgh South , but received only the third highest number of votes and thus missed entry into the British House of Commons . Pringle ran in the first Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999 in the same constituency and received the third largest share of the vote after Labor candidate Angus MacKay and SNP candidate Margo MacDonald . He was also in second place on the Liberal Democrats' regional electoral list for the Lothians electoral region . As a result of the election result, the Liberal Democrats were only able to send one regional candidate, David Steel .

In the general elections in 2003 he finally won the direct mandate from Edinburgh South and entered the Scottish Parliament for the first time . In the parliamentary elections in 2007 he defended his mandate, but was defeated four years later by the SNP politician Jim Eadie and left parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biographical information
  2. ^ Information from the Liberal Democrats ( Memento of May 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Results of the 1997 general election ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  4. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  5. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  8. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Pringle, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Northern Rhodesia