Mike Rumbles

Mike Rumbles ( born June 10, 1956 in South Shields ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats. Rumbles visited the St James School in Hebburn, Sunderland Polytechnic University and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He then worked for the British Army in the area of ​​training and rose to the rank of Major. Between 1995 and 1999, he then worked in a senior position in the administration of Aberdeen College.

Political career

For the first time Rumbles approached to national elections for the 1997 General Election. However, in his constituency Aberdeen North, he was only the fourth highest number of votes and thus failed to reach the British House of Commons. In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 stood as a candidate in the constituency Rumbles West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine. He won the direct mandate before the candidate of the Conservative Party and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the following elections in 2003 and 2007, he defended his position. As part of the constituency reform of 2011, the constituency West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine was dissolved. At the parliamentary elections of 2011, Rumbles applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Aberdeenshire West, but lost Dennis Robertson of the SNP and retired from the parliament from.

In 2005 Rumbles presented for election to the party chairmanship of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. He received 23.4 % of the vote and defeated so Nicol Stephen.