Liam McArthur is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Orkney. He was elected in the 2007 Parliament election to replace the retiring Jim Wallace, also a Liberal Democrat.
He was brought up on the Orkney Island of Sanday
McArthur had previously worked as as an aide to Wallace in the House of Commons and as Special Adviser to the Deputy First Minister in 2002.
He is married to Tamsin and they have two sons, Calum and Tom.
Liam McArthur's Website can be found here.
Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Highlands and Islands region  |
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| Elected in the 2007 election |
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| Constituency MSPs |
Jim Mather (SNP, Argyll and Bute) · Jamie Stone (Lib Dem, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) · Fergus Ewing (SNP, Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) · Richard Lochhead (SNP, Moray) · Liam McArthur (Lib Dem, Orkney) · John Farquhar Munro (Lib Dem, Ross, Skye and Inverness West) · Tavish Scott (Lib Dem, Shetland) · Alasdair Allan (SNP, Western Isles)
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| Additional Members |
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| SNP (6 seats), Lib Dem (4 seats), Labour (3 seats), Conservative (2 seats) |
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