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Data Last Updated: 1 March 2024
Application Last Amended: 11 January 2024
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Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment, Scottish Office | May 1979 | April 1982 | |
Under Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office | April 1982 | June 1983 | |
Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office | June 1983 | January 1986 | |
Secretary of State for Scotland | 9 January 1986 | November 1990 | |
Secretary of State for Transport | November 1990 | 11 April 1992 | |
Secretary of State for Defence | 11 April 1992 | 5 July 1995 | |
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | 5 July 1995 | 2 May 1997 |
Elections fought
18 June 1970 | Edinburgh Central | Conservative & Unionist Party | 8,000 | 38.62 | |
28 February 1974 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,162 | 41.20 | |
10 October 1974 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,083 | 33.93 | |
3 May 1979 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,684 | 39.28 | |
9 June 1983 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,051 | 39.19 | |
11 June 1987 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,278 | 38.27 | |
9 April 1992 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,128 | 40.69 | |
1 May 1997 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,813 | 32.38 | |
7 June 2001 | Edinburgh Pentlands | Conservative & Unionist Party | 14,055 | 36.10 | |
5 May 2005 | Kensington & Chelsea | Conservative & Unionist Party | 18,144 | 57.90 | |
6 May 2010 | Kensington | Conservative & Unionist Party | 17,595 | 50.06 | |
23 February 2015 The Conservative whip is removed from Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Rifkind pending an investigation into conduct of former ministers. |