Pete Wishart

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Pete Wishart

Peter "Pete" Wishart (born March 9, 1962 in Dunfermline ) is a Scottish musician and politician of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Life

Wishart was born in Dunfermline in 1962. He attended Queen Anne High School and Moray House College in Edinburgh . He lives in Perth and has one son. The trained social worker Wishart is active in various non-profit organizations. He is also a columnist for the monthly magazine The Scots Independent .

In 1981, Wishart was one of the founding members of the Big Country music group . Five years later he began his career as a keyboardist for the Scottish rock band Runrig , of which he was a member until 2001. In total, he has been heard on over a million records sold and is the only British MP to have appeared on the music show Top of the Pops . He is currently a member of the rock band MP4 formed by UK MPs that raise funds for charity.

Political career

After Wishart's party colleague John Swinney did not run for the 2001 general election because he had won a seat in the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, the SNP sent Wishart into the race as successor. Wishart won the North Tayside constituency mandate from Conservative Murdo Fraser and Labor candidate Thomas Docherty . Until 2007, Wishart Whip was the SNP faction.

After the constituency of North Tayside was dissolved in the wake of constituency reform in 2005 at the end of the electoral term, Wishart applied for the mandate of the newly created constituency Perth and North Perthshire , in which parts of the former constituency had been absorbed. He narrowly won the mandate in the 2005 elections and defended it in the 2010 and 2015 elections . With a difference of only 21 votes, Wishart maintained his mandate in front of the conservative challenger Ian Duncan in the 2017 early general election .

Web links

Commons : Pete Wishart  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on myparliament.info
  2. ↑ a b c Information from the SNP
  3. ^ Results of the 2001 general election
  4. ↑ Information from the British Parliament
  5. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  6. ^ Results of the 2010 general election
  7. ↑ a b Results of the general election in 2015 and 2017
personal data
SURNAME Wishart, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wishart, Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish musician and politician (SNP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunfermline