Bill Butler (politician)

Bill Butler ( born March 30, 1956 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party.

Butler attended the St Mungo's Academy in Glasgow. He then studied at the University of Stirling and earned his teaching license at Notre Dame College of Education in Bearsden. As a result, Butler was an English teacher, most recently at Notre Dame College of Education in Rutherglen, works. He is a longstanding member of the Labour Party, the GMB trade union and since 1992 a member of the District Council of Glasgow. Butler is with his party colleague Patricia Ferguson, who holds the direct mandate of the constituency Glasgow Maryhill or Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, married.

In the Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 the Labour politician and First Minister Donald Dewar won the direct mandate of the constituency of Glasgow Anniesland. On 11 October 2000, he died, however, why in the constituency on October 23, 2000 elections were held. Butler joined Dewar successor in Glasgow Anniesland and received by a wide margin the direct mandate of the constituency. In the parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007, he ran again in each case for Glasgow Anniesland and defended his mandate. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011 succeeded the candidate SNP, Bill Kidd, finally the direct mandate for Glasgow Anniesland by a margin of only seven votes against Bill Butler to gain, so he lost his parliamentary seat. This was around the narrowest win a constituency in this election. Since it is the former constituency of the late Donald Dewar and a stronghold of the Labour Party in Glasgow Anniesland, this victory was attributed some significance for the SNP.