Margaret Smith (politician)

Margaret Smith ( born 1961 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats. They functioned among others as Einpeitscherin the fraction of the Liberal Democrats in Parliament.

Smith attended Broughton High School and the University of Edinburgh and graduated with a Masters in Art from. In 1995 she was elected to the town council of Edinburgh and served from 1997 as a transport spokeswoman. For the first time Smith joined the Scottish Parliament elections 1999 to national elections. She was a candidate in the constituency of Edinburgh West and was committed to internal party against Donald Gorrie by, who represented the same constituency in the House of Commons. Smith won the direct mandate before the Conservative James Douglas - Hamilton and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2003 she defended her mandate. After the election, she confessed that she was living in a same-sex relationship. In 2006 the couple married. Despite vocal losses Smith defended in the 2007 parliamentary elections their direct mandate Four years later, she defeated in the parliamentary elections the SNP politician Colin Keir and retired from the parliament from.