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Professor Christopher Harvie
(Also number 6 on Mid Scotland & Fife list) |
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| Scottish National Party |
Professor Christopher Harvie was born in Motherwell, Scotland on September 21 1944. His father was a schoolteacher and he grew up in the border village of St Boswells, where the family lived until 1958. Thereafter he attended the Royal high school and University of Edinburgh, graduating with first class honours in history in 1966 and being awarded his PhD for a thesis on university liberalism and democracy, 1860-1886. He taught at the Open University from 1969 until 1980 when he moved to the University of Tübingen in Germany to teach British and Irish Studies. Professor Harvie also has honorary chairs at Aberystwyth and Strathclyde. He has written on North Sea oil, the British political novel and European regionalisation. His books include Scottish history, Scotland and Nationalism, Deep Fried Hillman Imp: Scotland's Transport and Scotland: a Short History, and No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland since 1914. He was a member of the Labour party, and wrote a pamphlet in favour of the Scottish Assembly along with Gordon Brown in 1979. He co-edited the history of the Scotish Labour Party in 1988 but left the party a year later. In May 2006, he wrote in the Guardian: 'There are worse things than the break-up of Britain: a "British Islands" system - informally a confederation of sorts - whereby an independent England with its allies in the archipelago could exercise the same sort of voting power within Europe as Germany plus, say, Holland and Denmark, might turn out a very attractive option. Shot of the ghost of Britain, the Islands could remake West Europe.' Among his many other interests, Chris Harvie is Honorary President of the Scottish Association for Public Transport. Chris is married with one daughter. He describes himself as a civic nationalist and greenish republican.
Recent electoral experience
Social Democrat council candidate in Tübingen, Germany.
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Marilyn Livingston MSP |
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| Labour |
Marilyn Livingston was born on the 30 th September 1952 and educated at Viewforth Secondardy school and Fife College in Glenrothes. From 1982 until her election in 1999 she was head of the Business School at Fife College. She was a Kirkcaldy Diestrict Councillor then a Fife Councillor before becoming an MSP. She is married and a member of the Church of Scotland, Unison, the EIS and the Co-operative Party.
Party positions
1999 - 2003 Convenor of the Labour party MSP group.
Ministerial Positions
None
Recent electoral experience
2003 Scottish parliament election, Kirkcaldy, 10,235 votes (46.65 %) (elected)
1999 Scottish parliament election, Kirkcaldy, 13,645 votes (48.14 %) (elected)
1995 Fife Council election, Sinclairtown/Gallatown, 815 votes (81.34 %) (elected)
1992 Kirkcaldy District Council election, Sinclairtown, 722 votes (56.06 %)
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Cllr David Potts
(Also number 8 on Mid Scotland & Fife list) |
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| Conservative & Unionist |
David Potts was born in 1982, in Jarrow and has been a Tory Party activist since he was 14. In 2004, at the age of 21, he was elected to South Tyneside Council taking a seat from the Liberal Democrats. David currently splits his time between his political duties in Jarrow and Falkirk, and his university life in Cambridge, where he is in the third year of his degree and is a past chairman of Cambridge Conservative Future. He is also an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve and takes a keen interest in defence and national security issues. Outside of politics, David loves to play cricket and rugby. He also enjoys reading and has an eclectic taste in music.
Recent electoral experience.
2005 Westminster election, Falkirk, 4,538 votes (9.92 %)
2004 South Tynside Council election, Cleadon & East Boldon, 1,500 votes (One of three Tories elected for the ward).
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Cllr Alice Soper
(Also number 7 on Mid Scotland & Fife list) |
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| Liberal Democrat |
Cllr Soper won the Linktown & Kirkcaldy Central on Fife Council in 2003 when she defeated the sitting Labour Cllr, John Farmer by 64 votes. She is a member of the following Council Committees: Central Area Common Good Sub-Committee, Central Area Services, Children's Services and Children's Services Scrutiny Sub-Committee.
Recent electoral experience
2003 Fife Council election, Linktown & Kirkcaldy Central, 642 votes (41.63 %) (elected)
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