Fergus Ewing

Fergus Ewing ( born September 23, 1957 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Ewing attended the Loretto School in Musselburgh, and then studied law at the University of Glasgow. After that he worked as a solicitor, then as an attorney. Fergus Ewing is the son of the politician Winnie Ewing, husband of politician Margaret Ewing and brother of Annabelle Ewing.

For the first time Ewing approached to national elections for the lower house elections in 1992. In the constituency, Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber, he was on a tight election, the third highest number of votes behind the Liberal Democrats David Russell Johnston and the Labour candidate David John Stewart. Before the 1997 General Election, the constituencies were re-cut and Ewing ran in the newly created constituency of Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber. However, since it behind David Stewart received only the second-largest share of votes, he missed again a place in the British House of Commons.

In the parliamentary elections of 1999 Ewing was a candidate in the constituency of Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber was, the direct mandate win just before the Labour candidate and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007 Ewing defended his mandate. Between 2007 and 2011, Ewing held the ministerial portfolios for Community Safety. As part of the constituency reform of 2011, the constituency Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber was dissolved. Parts of the old constituency went on in the new constituency of Inverness and Nairn, for the Ewing took in the parliamentary elections of 2011. The direct mandate he won well ahead of the Labour candidate. In the new cabinet, he was appointed Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism.