Member of the Scottish Parliament for Lothian Lothians (1999–2011) (1 of 7 Regional MSPs)
In office 6 May 1999 – 4 April 2014
Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party
In office 1974–1979
Leader
William Wolfe
Preceded by
Gordon Wilson
Succeeded by
Douglas Henderson
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Govan
In office 8 November 1973 – 8 February 1974
Preceded by
John Rankin
Succeeded by
Harry Selby
Personal details
Born
Margo Symington Aitken
(1943-04-19)19 April 1943 Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died
4 April 2014(2014-04-04) (aged 70) Edinburgh, Scotland
Political party
Independent (2003–2014) Scottish National Party (1973–2003)
Spouses
Peter MacDonald
(m. 1965; div. 1980)
Jim Sillars
(m. 1981)
Children
2
Alma mater
Dunfermline College of Physical Education
Occupation
Politician, Teacher, Broadcaster
Margo Symington MacDonald (néeAitken; 19 April 1943 – 4 April 2014) was a Scottish politician, teacher and broadcaster. She was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Govan from 1973 to 1974 and was Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party from 1974 to 1979. She later served as an SNP and then Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Lothian from 1999 until her death.
Margo Symington MacDonald (née Aitken; 19 April 1943 – 4 April 2014) was a Scottish politician, teacher and broadcaster. She was the Scottish National...
Canavan (Falkirk West), Jean Turner (Strathkelvin and Bearsden) and MargoMacDonald (Lothians). In 2004 Campbell Martin (West of Scotland region) left...
was Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party. He was married to MargoMacDonald until her death in 2014. Sillars was born in Ayr, the son of Matthew...
seats as before. Three independent MSPs were elected: Dennis Canavan, MargoMacDonald and Jean Turner. John Swinburne, leader of the Scottish Senior Citizens...
Democrats 16 seats, the Scottish Greens 2 seats and one Independent (MargoMacDonald) was also elected. The SNP initially approached the Liberal Democrats...
national council meeting a few days after the result of the referendum, MargoMacDonald argued that because working-class Scots had supported devolution and...
Kenneth Wright MacAskill (born 28 April 1958) is a Scottish politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian since 2019. He previously...
introduced on 13 November 2013 by the late MargoMacDonald MSP and was taken up by Patrick Harvie MSP on Ms MacDonald's death. The Bill entered the main committee...
death of MargoMacDonald in 2014. As she was elected as a regional list MSP as an independent (effectively the sole candidate of "the Margo party") her...
people of Glasgow". MargoMacDonald, a fundamentalist within the SNP, voiced her lack of confidence in Swinney's leadership. MacDonald was placed fifth in...
They were bolstered by their capture of the Glasgow Govan seat with MargoMacDonald as their candidate from the Labour Party in a by-election in 1973....
at Glasgow Govan where a hitherto safe Labour seat was claimed by MargoMacDonald. Nineteen seventy-four was to prove something of an annus mirabilis...
soldier and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1953) 2014 – MargoMacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (b. 1943) 2014 – Curtis Bill Pepper...
Turner were independents throughout their time in the Parliament. MargoMacDonald was elected in 1999 as a Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate, but...
October 2000, following the death in office of the then First Minister Donald Dewar, his deputy Jim Wallace became acting first minister, until the Labour...
toleration zone was closed in November 2001. Scottish National Party MSP MargoMacDonald introduced the Prostitution Tolerance Zones Bill to the Scottish Parliament...
world. In a 2012 consultation on the Member's Bill proposed by MSP MargoMacDonald, 64% of the members of the public who choose to give comment on the...
Sutton and Cheam Neil Macfarlane Conservative Scottish National Party MargoMacDonald Glasgow Govan Harry Selby Labour Pro-Assembly Unionist Rafton Pounder...
remain. This situation occurred in April 2014 following the death of MargoMacDonald, independent MSP for the Lothian region. An MSP is known as Name MSP...
George Lansbury (1859–1940), MP (Labour) and Leader of the Opposition MargoMacDonald (1943–2014), MP and MSP (SNP) David Marquand (1934–2024), academic...
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