Gerry Malone

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Peter Gerald Malone, known as Gerry Malone, (born 21 July 1950) is a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician who was an MP 1983-1987 and 1992-1997.

He began his parliamentary career as the unsuccessful Conservative candidate in the 1982 Glasgow Hillhead by-election, losing the traditionally Conservative seat to Roy Jenkins of the SDP.

He was then elected as MP for Aberdeen South in 1983, under the Thatcher government, but lost the seat to Frank Doran of Labour at the 1987 General Election.

He re-entered parliament in 1992, representing the 'safe' Tory seat of Winchester. He was appointed to Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1994 when Virginia Bottomley was the Secretary of State.

Malone unexpectedly lost his Winchester seat at the General Election of 1997 by two votes, to the Liberal Democrat Mark Oaten. Malone challenged the result in the high court, which was declared void, causing a by-election. However Malone was punished by the electorate for forcing what many saw as an unnecessary contest, trailing 21,566 votes behind Oaten in the resulting by-election.

Gerry Malone was chairman of Regent-GM, one of Britain’s biggest suppliers of generic drugs to the National Health Service (NHS) and a subsidiary of Nadhmi Auchi's General Mediterranean Holdings.

Currently he is a Non Executive Chairman of Ultrasis who specialize in computerized cognitive behavioural therapy software.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Iain Sproat	Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South 1983–1987	Succeeded by Frank Doran
Preceded by John Browne	Member of Parliament for Winchester 1992–1997	Succeeded by Mark Oaten