Bill Wilson (Scottish politician)

William Laurence Wilson, mostly Bill Wilson, ( born December 11, 1963 in Paisley ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Life

Wilson attended Shawlands Academy and then studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen, and at Queen 's University in Belfast. He subsequently spent ten years working as a scientist in the field of ecology at the Zoological Institute of the University of Glasgow. After he then spent a year in South America joined Wilson in the field of information technology.

Political career

After Wilson was first a member of the Labour Party, he joined in the late 1980s to the SNP. In the British general election, 1997 Wilson first came to elections at the national level. He stood as a candidate in the constituency of Glasgow Anniesland and defeated the Labour candidate and later Earnest Minister, Donald Dewar, clearly. In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 Wilson stepped to the constituency Glasgow Maryhill, but could not prevail against the Labour politician Patricia Ferguson himself. Both in the 2003 parliamentary elections in the constituency of Glasgow Maryhill and in the general election in 2005 in the constituency of Paisley and Renfrewshire North, he missed each of the direct mandate. In September 2003, Wilson presented as opposition candidate John Swinney on in the election for party leader. He was defeated with 577:111 Swinney votes. Also in the following parliamentary elections in 2007, he received only the third highest number of votes in his constituency West Renfrewshire. Since Wilson, however, was set on the fourth rank of the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for the election Region West of Scotland, he received as a result of the election results is one of the four list seats for the SNP in this election region and moved for the first time in the Scottish Parliament. At the 2011 parliamentary elections Wilson did not occur to and difference from the end of the term of the Parliament of.