Ian McKee

Ian McKee (* in South Shields ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party.

McKee attended Fettes College and then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In the following years, McKee worked as a physician and entered 1998 in the SNP. For the first time McKee stepped up to the 1999 parliamentary elections to be national elections. In his constituency Edinburgh Central, he was behind the Labour candidate Sarah Boyack only the second highest number of votes and thus failed to reach the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2003 and 2007, McKee applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Edinburgh Pentlands, but was able to record in both cases, only the third highest share of the vote itself. 2007 McKee, however, was also placed on the third rank of the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for the election Lothians region and moved as a result of the election results as representative of the constituency for the first time in the Scottish Parliament. At the end of the legislative period McKee retired from the Parliament.