Brian Fitzpatrick (Scottish politician)

Brian Fitzpatrick is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party.

After the resignation of Labour MP and Secretary of State for the Environment, Sport and Culture, Sam Galbraith, in May 2001, new elections were required in whose constituency Strathkelvin and Bearsden. Fitzpatrick came to Galbraith's successor and applied for the direct mandate of the constituency. Although Fitzpatrick forfeited 13.7 % of the votes of Galbraith's election result in the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, he won the direct mandate with a clear advantage over the non-party candidate Jean Turner. In the parliamentary elections in 2003, he ran again in the constituency of Strathkelvin and Bearsden, but lost Jean Turner with a difference of 438 votes. He retired at the end of the legislative period from the Scottish Parliament.