Jim Tolson

Jim Tolson, actually James Tolson, ( born May 26, 1965 in Ballingry ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats.

Tolson was born in 1965 as the son of a miner in Ballingry, a small town in the Scottish region of Fife. He worked a long time in the shipyard of Rosyth. In 1996 he married his wife Alison.

Political career

Tolson was 15 years councilor of the district Dunfermline. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2003, he ran for the Liberal Democrats in the constituency of Dunfermline West, however, was able to record only the fourth highest share of the vote itself. As he stood on the Regional Evaluation for Mid Scotland and Fife only on the hapless ninth place, Tolson missed to the Scottish Parliament. At the 2007 parliamentary elections Tolson finally was able to achieve about 500 votes more than the mandate holder Scott Barrie of the Labour Party and eventually moved into the Parliament. As part of the constituency reform of 2011, the constituency Dunfermline West was dissolved. At the 2011 parliamentary elections Tolson approached for the newly created constituency of Dunfermline, but was defeated, Bill Walker from the SNP and the candidate of the Labour Party.