Charlie Gordon

Charles Gordon, usually called Charlie Gordon, (* in Partick, Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party. Gordon is the youngest of seven children of his parents. At the age of 15, he graduated from school and started an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He later took at a college and a university on. Overall, Gordon was 19 years in the rail industry. For several decades he has been a member of the Labour Party and the trade union GMB.

Between 1987 and 1998, Gordon was a member of the Regional Council of Strathclyde, between 1995 and 2007 the city council of Glasgow. In the Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 and 2003, Michael Watson won the direct mandate of the constituency Glasgow Cathcart. After this had been convicted in 2005 for arson, had to be held in the constituency elections. Gordon was building as Watson's successor. He won the direct mandate with a clear lead before the candidate SNP and pulled first time in 2005 in the Scottish Parliament. In the parliamentary elections of 2007, he defended his position and posted vocal slight gains. Although Gordon was able to slightly increase its share of the vote even in the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011, the direct mandate went to the SNP candidate James Dornan and Gordon retired from the Parliament from.