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The 2008 Glenrothes by-election was a by-election held in Scotland on 6 November 2008 [1] to elect a new Member of Parliament (MP) for the UK House of Commons constituency of Glenrothes in Fife, Scotland. The seat fell vacant when the previous MP, John MacDougall , died of pleural mesothelioma on 13 August 2008, aged 60. [2]
On 24 January 2008, Peter Hain resigned his two cabinet posts (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales) after the Electoral Commission referred donations to his Deputy Leadership campaign to the police. [25] Derek Conway (2008). The Conservative Party MP was found to have reclaimed salaries he had paid to his ...
The Palace of Westminster, in which the Houses of Parliament are based This article lists the published allegations of expenses abuse made against specific members of the British Parliament in the course of the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal. While the majority of these were first made public by The Daily Telegraph on or after 8 May 2009, a few cases had already come to public ...
A second case a year later found he had overpaid with regard to his other son. [26] Chairman of the Conservative Party Caroline Spelman was alleged in June 2008 to have paid for her nanny out of parliamentary expenses during her early years in Parliament, between 1997 and 1998 [27] —an allegation that became known as 'Nannygate'. It was ruled ...
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both. [1] It differs from but often goes hand-in-hand with voter suppression.
6 November – Lindsay Roy retains the seat for the Labour Party at the Glenrothes by-election with a majority of 6,737 votes. The previous Labour MP John MacDougall died on 13 August 2008 from pleural mesothelioma. [4] 14 November – Sixteen-year-old Nicolle Earley kills 63-year-old Ann Gray at her home in Crosshill, Fife. [5]
Since 1995, local elections in Scotland have been generally held every four years for all the 32 unitary authorities created under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Between 1975 and 1992, elections were held every two years for either district or regional council, which sat for four-year terms.
Pages in category "2008 in Scotland" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... 2008 Scottish Labour leadership election; 2008 Scottish Labour ...