Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)

Colin Campbell ( * in Paisley ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Life

Campbell attended Paisley Grammar School and Jordanhill College of Education. He then studied at Glasgow University and then worked as a teacher, where he eventually rose to the school principal. In 1999 he lived in Kilbarchan.

Political career

In 1976, Campbell joined the SNP. In the late 1990s he belonged to the party leadership and was party spokesman on defense. He first joined the British general election, 1987 to national elections. However, in his constituency Renfrew West and Inverclyde, he received only around 10.1% of the votes and thus missed the mandate for the British House of Commons clearly. At the general election in 1992 he was able to double its share of the vote and increase in the 1997 General Election in the newly created constituency of West Renfrewshire by another 5.3%, but this was not enough to win each of the direct mandate.

In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, Campbell applied for the direct mandate of the constituency West Renfrewshire, but lost the Labour candidate Patricia Godman and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. Since Campbell was however set to the first rank of the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for the election Region West of Scotland, was one of four list seats for the SNP in this election region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. As of June 2001 Campbell served as party spokesman on defense. Under the following 2003 parliamentary elections Campbell did not occur to and difference from the end of the term of the Parliament of.