 In the 2003 election David McLetchie won the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency from Labour and in the 2007 election held the seat and more than doubled his majority.
He has held numerous senior positions within the Scottish Conservative Party at constituency and national level and was President of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association from 1994-1997. In September 1998 he was elected to lead the Party’s campaign in the first election to the Scottish Parliament held in 1999. He was returned as a regional list member for Lothians. David was the leader of the Scottish Conservative MSPs from 1999-2005 and is now Chief Whip and Business Manager. He is also a member of the Parliament’s Local Government & Communities Committee.
Active in Young Conservatives and Conservative student politics from 1968, he was the Conservative candidate for Edinburgh Central in the 1979 General Election.
He qualified as a solicitor in 1976 and joined Tods Murray WS in Edinburgh becoming a partner in 1980 and latterly heading the department dealing with tax, estates and trusts.
Born in 1952, David attended Leith Academy and George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh. He studied law at Edinburgh University where he gained an LLB (Hons) graduating in 1974.
David is married to Sheila, a theatre nurse at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. He has a 26 year old son James, by his first marriage to his late wife Barbara.
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