Ross Finnie

Ross Finnie ( born February 11, 1947 in Greenock ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Liberal Democrats.

Life

Finnie attended the Greenock Academy and worked for various companies in the financial sector in the following years. From 1991, he ran his own consulting firm Ross Finnie Finnie & Co. is married, father of two and lives in Greenock.

Political career

For the first time joined Finnie in 1977 at a political level in appearance when he was elected for the Liberal Party in the Regional Council of Inverclyde. This he belonged until his election to the Scottish Parliament uninterruptedly. In the British general election, 1979 the first time he came to elections at the national level. But in his constituency Renfrewshire West, he was only the fourth highest number of votes and missed so much a place in the British House of Commons. From 1982 to 1986 Finnie was then chairman of the Scottish branch of the Liberal Party. A second time he was a candidate in the general election in 1983 to a House of mandate. In his constituency Stirling, he received the third-largest share of votes.

In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, Finnie applied for the direct mandate of the constituency Greenock and Inverclyde, but got behind the Labour candidate Duncan McNeil only the second highest number of votes and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. Since Finnie, however, was set to the first rank of the Regional Evaluation of the Liberal Democrats for the election Region West of Scotland, he received as a result of the election results, the only list seats for the Liberal Democrats in this election region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. The following coalition between the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats, he was appointed by Donald Dewar to the Minister for Rural Affairs and thus received one of the two ministerial posts of the Liberal Democrats. After Dewar's death Finnies Ministry was renamed Finnie and thus to the Minister for the development of rural regions. Following the resignation of Sam Galbraith in 2001 Finnie became the super-minister for environment and development of rural regions. Although Finnie was able to increase its share of the vote in the following 2003 parliamentary elections easily, he missed again the direct mandate. His list, however, he defended mandate. In the newly formed Cabinet Finnie remained unchanged with departments as a super minister. In the 2007 parliamentary elections Finnie lost then 11.2% of its votes and got behind Duncan McNeil and the SNP candidate Stuart McMillan only the third highest share of the vote. In addition, however, he won the mandate list for West of Scotland. In the cabinet of the following SNP minority government Finnie received no more ministerial posts. He then served as party spokesman on health. In the 2011 parliamentary elections Finnie lost in his constituency more around 10% of the vote and received the lowest share of the vote of all four candidates. Since the Liberal Democrats in the election region received only 3.3% of the second votes, they could not mandate win list and Finnie retired from the parliament from.

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