David Martin (Scottish politician)
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David Martin is a British
Labour Party
politician, and member of the European Parliament
for Scotland
.
He was educated outside of Edinburgh at Liberton High School
. He was first elected as a councillor in 1982, and won the Lothians
seat in the 1984 European Parliament elections. He retained his seat, and following a reform of the electoral system, was in 1999 was elected to represent the whole of Scotland along with other members.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
politician, and member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
for Scotland
Scotland (European Parliament constituency)
Scotland constitutes a single constituency of the European Parliament. For 2009 it elects 6 MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.- Boundaries :...
.
He was educated outside of Edinburgh at Liberton High School
Liberton High School
Liberton High School is a secondary school in Gilmerton, in the south of Edinburgh, Scotland. The head teacher is Donald J. Macdonald.The school currently has about 750 students studying...
. He was first elected as a councillor in 1982, and won the Lothians
Lothians (European Parliament constituency)
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales...
seat in the 1984 European Parliament elections. He retained his seat, and following a reform of the electoral system, was in 1999 was elected to represent the whole of Scotland along with other members.