Murray Tosh is a Scottish

Scotland

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 Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 & Unionist

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

The Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party is the part of the British Conservative Party that operates in Scotland. Like the UK party, it has a centre-right political philosophy which promotes conservatism and strong British Unionism...

 politician, and former Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...

 for the West of Scotland Region

West of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

West of Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament...

 (2003–07). He was elected as a Regional Member for the South of Scotland in the 1999 election.

Between 2003 and 2007 he was a Deputy Presiding Officer

Presiding Officer

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 of the Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

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Tosh was a councillor on the former Kyle and Carrick

Kyle and Carrick

Kyle and Carrick was one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996....

 District Council

Subdivisions of Scotland

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In the 2007 Holyrood Election, Tosh was the Scottish Conservative Party candidate for the seat of Dumfries

Dumfries (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dumfries was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

. He was defeated by Dr Elaine Murray

Elaine Murray

Dr Elaine Murray is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Dumfriesshire since 1999. At the 1999, 2003 and 2007 elections, Dr Murray increased her percentage share of the vote...

, the Labour incumbent and as such did not return to Holyrood as an MSP for the 2007-2011 session.

External links

• Murray Tosh MSP profile at Scottish Parliament site
• Murray Tosh MSP profile at the site of the Conservative Party