Bill Kidd

Bill Kidd ( born July 24, 1956) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Political career

Kidd initially arose when the general election in 1987 as a candidate for the constituency of Glasgow Hillhead for the SNP to, but won no mandate. He subsequently resigned from the SNP and founded the Scottish Socialist Party, which has no connection with the present party of the same name. In 1989, a new election in Glasgow was required as a result of the death of the envoy Robert McTaggart, Kidd ran as candidate of the SSP, however, was able to unite only 137 of the 26,535 valid votes (0.5% ) on you. In the same year he rejoined the SNP and candidate in the general election in 2001 for the constituency of Cunninghame South, but he could not win for his party. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2003 and 2007, he appeared as a candidate for the SNP in the constituency of Glasgow Anniesland and could with 3888 (17.6% ) and 6177 ( 27.9% ) combine the respective second largest number of votes to be, but lost each of the candidate the Labour Party, Bill Butler. 2007, however, succeeded Kidd as a list of candidate SNPs for the constituency of Glasgow move into Scottish Parliament. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011 Kidd finally won the direct mandate for Glasgow Anniesland by a margin of only seven votes against Bill Butler. This was around the narrowest win a constituency in this election. Since it was the former constituency of the late Labour politician Donald Dewar, the First Minister of Scotland, and a stronghold of the Labour Party in Glasgow Anniesland, this victory was attributed some importance.

Since May 2007 Kidd, alongside his work in Parliament also a member of the city council of Glasgow, however, came in 2009 from this office back in order to concentrate on his work as a parliamentarian.