Mike Pringle (politician)

From 1992 to 2003 he was a member of the City of Edinburgh Council. In the 1997 UK general election he ran unsuccessfully as a candidate in Edinburgh South, and in the equivalent constituency in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election. In the latter he came third out of the five candidates, with 22% of the vote; less than five hundred votes behind Margo MacDonald. He was also a candidate for the Lothians, but was not elected through the list system.^{[citation needed]}

He ran again in the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary election for Edinburgh South, winning it from Angus MacKay by half a per cent of the votes – a majority of 158. He served on the Justice Committees of the Scottish Parliament.^[1]

In September 2006, the Scottish Parliament's Standards Committee banned him for a week from attending full sessions and committee meetings of the Parliament for leaking details of the Shirley McKie case to a newspaper.

He was re-elected in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.^[2]

He lost the redrawn seat of Edinburgh Southern to the SNP's Jim Eadie in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.^[3]

• Scottish Parliament profiles of MSPs: Mike Pringle