Phil Gallie

Philip Roy Gallie , mostly Phil Gallie , (born June 3, 1939 in Portsmouth , † January 24, 2011 ) was a Scottish politician and member of the Conservative Party .

Life

Gallie attended Dunfermline High School in Dunfermline . He then trained as an electrician at the shipyard in Rosyth and later worked for the merchant marine and for an energy producer. In 1964 Gallie married his wife Marion, whom he cared for for many years and who died in 2006 after a long illness. Together they had two children - a son and a daughter.

British House of Commons

At the political level, Gallie first appeared when he was elected for the Conservatives in the District Council of Cunninghame . In the general election in 1983 he ran for the constituency of Cunninghame South . He received the second largest share of the vote and thus missed entry into the British House of Commons . Also in the constituency of Dunfermline West , for which he ran in the general election in 1987 , he only received the second highest number of votes. Finally, Gallie won the direct mandate of the constituency of Ayr in the general election in 1992 and moved into the lower house for the first time. His lead over the Labor Party candidate was only 85 votes; a result that is one of the tightest in British electoral history. In 1995 he was elected deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives. In the following elections in 1997 he lost his mandate to Labor candidate Sandra Osborne and thus left the House of Commons after one term. Gallie tried to win back his mandate in the 2001 general election, which he did not succeed despite winning votes.

Scottish Parliament

The Conservative Party leader was elected in the run-up to the first Scottish general election in 1999. Gallie ran for office, but was defeated by David McLetchie . In the general election, Gallie ran for the direct mandate of the constituency of Ayr he was defeated with a deficit of only 25 votes to the Labor candidate Ian Welsh . However, since Gallie was listed on the regional electoral list of the Conservatives for the electoral region South of Scotland in first place, he received one of the four list mandates of the Conservatives in this electoral region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election result . In the 2003 general election , he ran in the constituency of Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley and received the second highest number of votes behind Labor politician Cathy Jamieson . On the other hand, he was able to defend his list mandate for the electoral region in second place on the regional electoral list. At the end of the legislative period, he left parliament.

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Guardian: Phil Gallie obituary
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The Guardian: Former Tory MP Phil Gallie dies
3. ^ Results of the general election in 1983
4. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1987 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 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. 
5. ^ Results of the general election in 1992
6. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 1997 and 2001 general election
8. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
9. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
11. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
12. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from September 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
13. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website