Margo MacDonald

Margo MacDonald ( born April 19, 1943 in Hamilton, † April 4, 2014 ) was a British politician and former member of the separatist Scottish National Party. MacDonald attended the Hamilton Academy and Dunfermline College. Afterwards she worked briefly as a teacher, then as a freelance journalist and ultimately in the media sector. She was married to the politician Jim Sillars.

House of Commons

For the first time Gray joined the British general election, 1970 to national elections. She applied to the direct mandate of the constituency of Paisley, but received only around 7.3 % of the vote. In 1973 she competed in the elections in the constituency of Glasgow Govan to the direct mandate. She received the highest number of votes and moved for the first time in the House of Commons. In the following general election in February 1974, she lost her seat to the Labour politician Harry Selby. Their term of office was thus just 112 days. In the British general election in October 1974, they could not regain their mandate. Between 1974 and 1979 she was then deputy party leader of the SNP. One last time tried MacDonald to win a seat in the House of Commons at the general election in the constituency of Hamilton in 1978, but was defeated by Labour candidate George Robertson.

Scottish Parliament

One of the first Scottish Parliament elections 1999 MacDonald applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Edinburgh South, but was defeated by Labour candidate Angus MacKay. She was also placed on the first rank of the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for the election Lothians region, she moved as a result of the election result as one of seven candidates in the electoral list of the newly created Scottish Parliament a. After internal party disagreements MacDonald was set from the first to fifth place on the regional electoral list for the 2003 parliamentary elections, making their re-election was virtually eliminated. In response, she announced to run as an independent candidate, and was subsequently excluded from the SNP. In the elections as an independent candidate they could unite 10.2% of the votes and thus defended her parliamentary seat. In the parliamentary elections in 2007 and 2011 she defended again each their mandate.

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