Ross Finnie

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Ross Finnie

Ross Finnie (born February 11, 1947 in Greenock ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats .

Life

Finnie attended the Greenock Academy and in the following years worked for various companies in the financial sector. From 1991, he ran his own consulting firm Ross Finnie & Co . Finnie is married, father of two and lives in Greenock.

Political career

Finnie first appeared on a political level in 1977 when he was elected to the Inverclyde Regional Council for the Liberal Party . He was a member of this without interruption until his election to the Scottish Parliament . In the British general election in 1979 , he first ran for elections at the national level. In his constituency of Renfrewshire West he only received the fourth highest number of votes and thus clearly missed entry into the British House of Commons . From 1982 to 1986 Finnie was then chairman of the Scottish branch of the Liberal Party. A second time he ran for a lower house mandate in the 1983 general election. In his constituency of Stirling , he received the third largest share of the vote.

In the first Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999, Finnie ran for the direct mandate of the constituency Greenock and Inverclyde , but received only the second highest number of votes behind the Labor candidate Duncan McNeil and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. Since Finnie was placed on the first rank of the regional electoral list of the Liberal Democrats for the electoral region West of Scotland , he received the only list mandate for the Liberal Democrats in this electoral region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election result. In the coalition that followed between the Labor Party and the Liberal Democrats, Donald Dewar appointed him Minister for Rural Affairs, one of the Liberal Democrats' two ministerial posts. After Dewar's death, Finnie's ministry was renamed, making Finnie Minister for Rural Development. After Sam Galbraith's resignation in 2001, Finnie became Super Minister for Environment and Rural Development. Although Finnie was able to increase his share of the vote in the following parliamentary elections in 2003 , he again missed the direct mandate. However, he defended his list mandate. In the newly formed cabinet, Finnie remained with unchanged departments as super minister. In the 2007 parliamentary elections , Finnie then lost 11.2% of its votes and only received the third highest share of the vote after Duncan McNeil and the SNP candidate Stuart McMillan . He also won the list mandate for West of Scotland. In the cabinet of the following SNP minority government, Finnie no longer received a ministerial post. He then acted as party spokesman for health. In the 2011 parliamentary elections , Finnie lost around 10% of the votes in his constituency and thus received the lowest percentage of votes of all four applicants. Since the Liberal Democrats only received 3.3% of the second vote in the electoral region, they were unable to win a list mandate and Finnie left parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Information from the Liberal Democrats ( Memento from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Results of the 1979 general election ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 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 in 1983
  5. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  7. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  8. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  9. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  10. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  11. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  12. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  13. ↑ Information from the Scottish Parliament
  14. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  15. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Finnie, Ross
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenock