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Murphy was selected to stand as the Labour Party candidate in the seat of Eastwood at the 1997 general election. [8] He was elected as MP for Eastwood on 1 May 1997, winning the formerly safe Conservative seat with a majority of 3,236 as Scotland's youngest MP.
James Richard Murphy (born December 8, 1957), known as Jim Murphy, is an American businessman and politician. He is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives . [ 1 ] From 2007 to 2009 and again since 2011, he has represented District 133 in Harris County .
Jim Murphy (born c. 1951) is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 94th District, in Saint Louis County, serving since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party.
Until 1997, the constituency was the safest Conservative seat in Scotland. [4] [5] At the 1997 general election, which was a landslide victory for Labour, it was won by future Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy who held the seat until being defeated by Kirsten Oswald of the Scottish National Party at the 2015 general election.
Murphy had faced calls to resign from several MSPs, trade unions and former MPs in the wake of his party's near wipeout at the general election. Murphy lost his seat in the 2015 general election as the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 Scottish seats, leaving Labour with a single member of parliament in Scotland.
BELLEVUE - If he wasn’t Murphy in the Morning on WIXX-FM for the past 32 years, he might have been Jim Murphy, store manager at your local Menards. "Murphy," as he's best known, worked part time ...
Jim Murphy owes A.J. Brown a debt of gratitude. Murphy’s book, “Inner Excellence,” flew up to the top of Amazon best-sellers list on Monday morning. According to The Associated Press, the ...
Since 2005, the Scottish National Party had come first in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election as well as the 2009 European Parliament election.In Westminster, however, it was a different story: although in 2008 the party won the Glasgow East by-election, in what was one of the safest Labour seats in the UK, by the time of the 2010 UK general election and even with an increase of 2.3% in the ...