Mike Rumbles
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Mike Rumbles MSP |
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| Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland |
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Assumed office 5 May 2016 |
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| Member of the Scottish Parliament for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine |
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In office 6 May 1999 – 22 March 2011 |
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| Preceded by | new constituency |
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Dennis Robertson Aberdeenshire West |
| Majority | 5,170 (14.8%) (2007) |
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10 June 1956 South Shields, England |
| Political party | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
Mike Rumbles (born 10 June 1956) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for North East Scotland, reelected to the Scottish Parliament in the 2016 election (having previously represented West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine before being defeated at the 2011 election in the successor constituency of Aberdeenshire West).
Rumbles was born in South Shields in England and was educated at St James School in Hebburn, County Durham, Sunderland Polytechnic where he graduated with a BEd, and Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. He served in the Royal Army Education Corps retiring as a Major in October 1994.
Rumbles was elected to the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine constituency in the 1999 election, and comfortably held the seat in the 2003 election and 2007 election but was defeated by the SNP in 2011. Following the Scottish Parliament's establishment in 1999, Rumbles was Convenor of the Standards Committee when it was charged with investigating the so-called 'Lobbygate' scandal, in which the son of the then Secretary of State for Scotland John Reid was embroiled.
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