Alex Johnstone

Alex Johnstone ( born July 31, 1961 in Stonehaven ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Conservative Party.

Johnstone attended the Mackie Academy in Stonehaven and was then employed in his parents' farm, which he took over in 1993. He is married and has two children.

Political career

For the first time Johnstone joined the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 elections at the national level. In his constituency Gordon he received the third highest number of votes and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. As Johnstone, however, was set on the third rank of the Regional Evaluation of the Conservative Party for choosing North East Scotland, he moved as a result of the election result as one of seven representatives of the constituency in the newly created Scottish Parliament a. He was appointed party spokesman on rural affairs. In the following elections in 2003 and 2007 he applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Angus. But in both cases, he lost the SNP politician Andrew Welsh. His mandate, he could list as a second or defend First Place at the Regional Evaluation of the Conservatives on the other hand. Even the elections to the House of Commons in 2005 and 2010, Johnstone went to. But in his constituency West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine he was defeated in both cases, the Liberal Democrats Sir Robert Smith. The constituency Angus, for whom he had a candidate unsuccessful in the Scottish Parliament elections, was abolished in the wake of the reform constituency in 2011. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011, he applied therefore to the direct mandate of the newly created constituency of Angus North and Mearns, had gone up in the parts of the former constituency of Angus. Johnstone received the second highest number of votes behind the SNP candidate Nigel Don, and missed so again a direct mandate. However, the list of mandate he defended a second time.