Marilyn Livingstone is a Scottish

Scotland

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 Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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 Co-operative

Co-operative Party

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 politician, who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament

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 for Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Kirkcaldy is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

 constituency from 1999-2011.

Before her election in 1999

Scottish Parliament election, 1999

The Scottish Parliament election, 1999 was the first general election of the Scottish Parliament, with voting taking place on 6 May 1999 to elect 129 members...

 she was the head of the Business School at Fife College

Adam Smith College

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. She was also a councillor on Kirkcaldy District Council

Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. The town lies on a shallow bay on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth; SSE of Glenrothes, ENE of Dunfermline, WSW of Dundee and NNE of Edinburgh...

 and Fife Council. She won re-election from the Kirkcaldy constituency in the 2003

Scottish Parliament election, 2003

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 and 2007 elections

Scottish Parliament election, 2007

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, but lost her seat in the 2011 election

Scottish Parliament election, 2011

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 to the Scottish National Party

Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

's David Torrance, by 182 votes.

Electoral History

External links

• Marilyn Livingstone MSP profile at the site of Scottish Labour