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Malone was 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 Winchester . He was appointed to Minister Of State at the Department Of Health in 1994 when Virginia Bottomley was the Secretary Of State . Malone lost his 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 .
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