Mike Pringle (politician)

Mike Pringle ( born December 25, 1945 in Northern Rhodesia ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats.

Political career

Pringle studied at Edinburgh University and then worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland until it became independent in 1972. 1982 Pringle joined the Social Democratic Party ( SDP), the predecessor party the Liberal Democrats. In the same year he applied for a seat on the Regional Council of Lothian, which he not won. 1992 was elected to the county council of Edinburgh's Morningside district, in 1994 the Regional Council of Lothian and 1995 in the Edinburgh City Council. At the Edinburgh City Council elections in 1999 and 2003, he defended his position.

Parliamentary elections

In the 1997 General Election Pringle candidate in the constituency of Edinburgh South, but received only the third highest number of votes and thus failed to reach the British House of Commons. Pringle went to in the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 in the same constituency and received by the Labour candidate Angus MacKay and the SNP candidate Margo MacDonald is the third largest share of the vote. He also was on the second place in the Regional Evaluation of the Liberal Democrats for the election Lothians region. As a result of the election results the Liberal Democrats could send only a regional candidate with David Steel. In the parliamentary elections of 2003 he finally won the direct mandate of Edinburgh South and moved for the first time in the Scottish Parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2007, he defended his position, but lost four years later the SNP politician Jim Eadie and retired from the Parliament from.