Stewart Stevenson

Stewart Stevenson (born October 15, 1946 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Stevenson grew up in Cupar and attended Bell Baxter High School. He then went to Aberdeen University , which he left with a master's degree in mathematics. Between 1969 and 1988 he worked for the Bank of Scotland and left as Head of Technology Development. Stevenson was a lecturer at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and director of Business for Scotland .

Scottish Parliament

For the first time Stevenson appeared in the first Scottish general election in 1999 to elections at the national level. In his constituency of Linlithgow he received the second highest number of votes behind the Labor candidate Mary Mulligan and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. The future First Minister Alex Salmond won the direct mandate of the constituency of Banff and Buchan in these elections , but gave it back in 2001. At the by-elections that were due, Stevenson represented the SNP and received 49.6% of the votes and thus the direct mandate. He entered the Scottish Parliament for the first time and defended his mandate in the following general elections in 2003 and 2007 . During the second electoral term, Stevenson held various positions in the SNP's shadow cabinet . Between May 2003 and March 2004 he was appointed Deputy State Secretary for Health and Social Justice, between September 2004 and September 2005 as Deputy State Secretary for Drug Policy and Prisons and finally as Deputy State Secretary for Justice. Following the 2007 general election, Stevenson was appointed Secretary of State for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change. In winter 2010, numerous motorists were stuck on the highways after heavy snowfall. Stevenson was held responsible for the lack of warnings and precautionary measures, and he subsequently resigned. As part of the 2011 constituency reform, Stevenson's constituency of Banff and Buchan was dissolved. In the 2011 general election , Stevenson ran for the direct mandate of the constituency of Banffshire and Buchan Coast , in which large parts of the former constituency were absorbed. He won 67.2% of the vote in the election - the largest of all candidates. However, the highest absolute number of votes received Alex Salmond in the constituency of Aberdeenshire East . In the new cabinet , Stevenson has been named Secretary of State for Environment and Climate Change.

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SURNAME	Stevenson, Stewart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edinburgh

[schopar-1] Information from the Scottish Parliament ( Memento of July 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[sop-2] Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from October 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website

[4] Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website

[5] Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website

[6] Information from the Scottish Government

[7] BBC News: Scottish Transport Minister apologises to motorists

[8] BBC News: Stewart Stevenson's resignation letter

[9] Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website

[10] BBC News: Salmond completes SNP majority government