Bill Wilson (politician, 1963)

William Laurence Wilson , usually Bill Wilson , (born December 11, 1963 in Paisley ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Wilson attended Shawlands Academy and then studied at the University of Glasgow , the University of Aberdeen and Queen's University Belfast . Wilson then spent ten years as an ecology scientist at the University of Glasgow Zoological Institute. After spending a year in South America , Wilson switched to information technology .

Political career

After Wilson was initially a member of the Labor Party , he moved to the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the late 1980s . In the 1997 British general election, Wilson first ran for national elections. He ran in the Glasgow Anniesland constituency and was clearly defeated by the Labor candidate and later First Minister , Donald Dewar . In the first Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999, Wilson stood in the constituency of Glasgow Maryhill , but could not prevail against the Labor politician Patricia Ferguson . He missed the direct mandate in both the 2003 general election in the Glasgow Maryhill constituency and in the 2005 general election in the Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency .

In September 2003, Wilson stood up as a rival candidate to John Swinney in the election for party leader of the SNP. He lost to Swinney with 577: 111 votes. In the following general election in 2007 , he received only the third highest number of votes in his constituency of West Renfrewshire . However, since Wilson was placed in fourth place on the regional electoral list of the SNP for the electoral region West of Scotland , he received one of four list mandates for the SNP in this electoral region as a result of the election result and moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time . Wilson did not run for the 2011 general election and left parliament at the end of the legislature.

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Biographical information ( Memento from January 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Results of the 1997 general election ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
5. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
6. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
8. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website