Paul Wheelhouse

Paul Wheelhouse

Paul Wheelhouse (born June 22, 1970 in Belfast ) is a Scottish politician of Northern Irish descent and a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Wheelhouse grew up in Edinburgh and attended Stewart's Melville College . He then studied economics at the University of Aberdeen and then moved to the University of Edinburgh , which he left with a master's degree . Wheelhouse has lived in the Berwickshire region since 2000 .

Political career

In 2001, Wheelhouse was elected to the Berwickshire County Council and joined the SNP in 2003. In the British general election in 2010 , he ran for the direct mandate of the constituency of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk , but received only around 9.2% of the vote and thus clearly missed the entry into the British House of Commons . In the 2011 Scottish general election , Wheelhouse ran in the newly created constituency of Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire . He received the second highest share of the vote behind the conservative John Lamont and thus missed the direct mandate. However, since Wheelhouse was also set on the regional electoral list of the SNP for the electoral region of South Scotland , he received one of the four SNP list mandates in this electoral region and moved into the Scottish Parliament for the first time as a result of the election result.

Web links

• Information on the Scottish Parliament website
• Information from the SNP

Individual evidence

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4. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
5. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website