Preceded by Gil Paterson Party Scottish National Party Role Scottish politician | Name Dave Thompson Majority 4995 | |
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Preceded by John Farquhar Munro (as member for Ross, Skye and Inverness West Born 20 September 1949 (age 74)
Lossiemouth ( 1949-09-20 ) Political party Scottish National Party | ||
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David George Thompson (born 20 September 1949) is a Scottish politician. He was a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) 2007−2016. He was first elected in 2007 as a Highlands and Islands, then elected for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency in the 2011 election.
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Early life
Thompson was born in Lossiemouth, Scotland.
Political career
In 2007, Thompson was elected from the regional list as a MSP for the Highlands and Islands. Thompson received some media attention in the aftermath of the 2007 election because he pointed out to the returning officer that the number of additional members for each party had been wrongly calculated. The initial calculation would have given Labour four additional seats and the SNP none, which would have resulted in Labour gaining a plurality and winning the election. After Thompson challenged this calculation and the figures were correctly calculated, Labour were allocated three seats and the SNP two. This resulted in the SNP gaining a plurality of one seat and enabled them to form the Scottish Government.
In 2011 Thompson was elected for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency.
In August 2011, before the main debate on equal marriage in Scotland, Thompson along with two other MSPs- Richard Lyle and Bill Walker had given their support to a motion proposed by John Mason; the motion had included a statement of support for the view that no person or organisation should be forced to be involved or to approve of same-sex marriage, however the motion fell on 5 December 2011.