John Young (politician, 1930)

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John Young (born December 21, 1930 in Glasgow , † November 3, 2011 ) was a Scottish politician and member of the Conservative Party .

Life

Young attended Hillhead High School and the College of Commerce . He then studied at the University of Glasgow . Young then completed his military service in the Royal Air Force between 1949 and 1951 and then worked in the economic sector.

Political career

In total, Young was a non-stop member of Glasgow City Council for 35 years. Between 1977 and 1979 he headed the minority government of the Conservatives in Glasgow and was later several times opposition leader. For the first time Young appeared in the British general election in 1966 for elections at the national level. In his constituency of Rutherglen , however, he only received the second highest number of votes and thus missed entry into the British House of Commons . In the general election in 1992 he joined the constituency of Glasgow Cathcart , but was not given the direct mandate again.

In the first Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999 Young ran for the direct mandate of the Eastwood constituency , but received only the second highest number of votes behind the Labor candidate Kenneth Macintosh and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. Since Young was placed on the top ranks of the Conservative Party's regional electoral list for the electoral region West of Scotland , he received one of the two list mandates for the Conservative Party in this electoral region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election result . Here he was after Winnie Ewing the second oldest member of this legislature. He acted as deputy party spokesman for traffic and the environment. Young did not run for the Scottish general election in 2003 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Scotsman: Obituary: John Young - Former Conservative MSP and long-serving Glasgow councillor
  2. ^ A b The Herald Scotland: John Young
  3. ↑ Results of the general election in 1966 ( Memento from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Results of the general election in 1992 ( Memento from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Young, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2011