Question: In regards to the person who was a Member of Parliament for the Leigh constituency before Jo Platt, what year was that person born?

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Tenkasi: Tenkasi is one of the municipalities in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, India.  Tenkasi, South Banaras is also famous for its temple.  The story of its temple is narrated in an inscription on a four sided pillar set up in front of the gopuram.  It is said that God Viswanatha appeared in the dream of Arikeari Parakrama Pandyan who was living in the fort constructed by him at Vinthankottai which is in the east of Tenkasi the frequently visited Banaras to worship Lord Viswanatha, and Lord ordered him to build a new temple at Tenkasi.The king started the work in 1446 A.D the central shrine, the ardhamantapam and the mahamantapam were finished and the god was established in this shrine.  Ten years later the building of the nine stories gopuram began and in six years it was completed.  In the same year 1463 A. D the king died.  The temple contains many Pandya inscriptions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.  It is believed that if a person dies in Banaras he will attain salvation.  But if a person born, lives and dies in Tenkasi he will get salvation was the verdict of many puranas.

Jo Platt: Joanne Marie Platt is a British politician who represents the Labour Party.  At the 2017 general election, she was elected Member of Parliament for the Leigh constituency succeeding Andy Burnham who left Parliament to become the Mayor of Greater Manchester.  She is Leigh's first female MP.  On July 13, 2017, she became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Angela Rayner.

Albert B. Douglas: Albert B. Douglas (September 2, 1912 – March 6, 1971) was the eldest of the five sons of Will and Clara Douglas.  He was the first person born in Briercrest, Saskatchewan, Canada.  A Saskatchewan wheat farmer, he was a member of parliament elected during the 28th Canadian Parliament on June 25, 1969 representing the Assiniboia riding.

Yamatji: Yamatji (or Yamaji is a Watjarri word bearing two basic meanings; it refers to a(n) (Aboriginal) person, normally male, and, secondly and more specifically, is used by Watjarri people to refer to a member of their tribe.  A third sense refers to an inter-tribal aggregation of such peoples used in contemporary land title claims and derives from the fact that it has become a name commonly used by Aboriginal people in the Murchison district to any native person born in that district.

Leigh (UK Parliament constituency): Leigh is a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Joanne Platt of the Labour Party.

Amethi (Lok Sabha constituency): Amethi is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) constituencies in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.  This constituency covers the entire Amethi district and was created in 1967.  Its first member of parliament (MP) was Vidya Dhar Bajpai of the Indian National Congress (INC) who was elected in 1967 and held his seat in the next election in 1971.  In the 1977 election, Ravindra Pratap Singh of the Janata Party became its MP.  Singh was defeated in 1980 by Sanjay Gandhi of the INC.  Later in the same year, Gandhi died in a plane crash.  This forced a by election in this constituency in 1981 which was won by his brother, Rajiv Gandhi.  Gandhi went on to represent this constituency until 1991, when he was assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).  The subsequent by election held in the same year was won by Satish Sharma of the INC.  Sharma was also elected as the MP in the next election in 1996.  Sanjay Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defeated Sharma in the 1998 election.  The widow of Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, represented this constituency from 1999–2004.  As of the latest elections in 2014, her son Rahul Gandhi is the MP of this constituency, a seat he has held since 2004.  As of 2014, Amethi has been represented by four members of the Nehru–Gandhi family since 1980.

Andy Burnham: Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British politician and the Mayor of Greater Manchester, in office since May 2017.  Burnham was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh from 2001 to 2017.  He is a member of the Labour Party.

Martha Piper: Martha C. Piper, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} was the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia.  She held the position from 1997 until 2006, and was the 11th person and the first woman to do so.  Having been born in Lorain, Ohio, she is also the first person born outside Canada to have held the position.  She is a Canadian citizen and she was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2002.  Her contract with UBC stipulated a salary of $350,000 plus incentive payments of up to $50,000 per year upon meeting the performance goals set by the Board of Governors.

Liz Smith (politician): Elizabeth Jane "Liz" Smith (born 27 February 1960) is a Scottish Conservative Party politician who is a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Scotland and Fife.  She was first elected in 2007 and re-elected in 2011 and 2016, having earlier stood unsuccessfully for the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 2001 general election in the Perth constituency, where missed out to the SNP by just 48 votes.  She stood as a constituency candidate in the Perth constituency at the Scottish Parliament in 2007 and again in the newly established Perthshire South and Kinross-shire constituency in both 2011 and 2016, missing out by 1,422 votes in 2016.  She is shadow cabinet secretary for education and skills.

Bangalore North (Lok Sabha constituency): Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency (Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಉತ್ತರ ಲೋಕ ಸಭೆ ಚುನಾವಣಾ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ ) is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian Parliament) constituencies in the South Indian state of Karnataka.  This constituency has been known by different names in its history.  For the 1951 and every election since 1977 it has been known as Bangalore North.  For the 1957 and 1962 elections it was known as Bangalore City.  For the 1967 and 1971 elections it formed a constituency jointly with Bangalore South and was known as Bangalore.  From 1951–73, this constituency resided in Mysore State.  On 1 November 1973 Mysore State was renamed as Karnataka.  Bangalore North held its first elections in 1951 and its first member of parliament (MP) was Keshava Iyengar of the Indian National Congress (INC).  He was re-elected in the next election in 1957.  K. Hanumanthaiya also of the INC represented this constituency for three consecutive terms from 1962 to 1977.  C. K. Jaffer Sharief of the INC was its MP for five consecutive terms from 1977–1996 before being denied ticket in the 1996 election.  C. Narayanaswamy of the Janata Dal party defeated Mohammed Obedulla Sharief.  This brought to an end a 45-year period where this constituency had been represented by a member of the INC from 1951–96.  Sharief became the MP once again in 1998.  He was also re-elected in 1999 to serve his seventh term as MP for this constituency.  H. T. Sangliana of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) represented this constituency in 2004.  D. B. Chandre Gowda also of the BJP was elected in the 2009 election.  As of the latest elections in 2014, its current MP is D. V. Sadananda Gowda of the BJP who is also the incumbent Minister of Railways.  Of the 16 elections held in this constituency, the most successful party is the INC who have won on 12 occasions.

Supporting paragraphs: Jo Platt Andy Burnham
Answer: 1970