John Wilson (Scottish politician)

John Wilson ( born November 28, 1956 in Falkirk ) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Wilson attended the Camelon High School in Falkirk and then worked eleven years for a body builder. When his body was broken, he moved to Coatbridge Coatbridge and first attended the College, then the University of Glasgow, which he left with a master 's degree in political and economic history. In 1978 he ran for the first time for the Regional Council and from 1980 to 1984 member of the Council of Falkirk for the Labour Party. In 1999, Wilson of the SNP at.

For the first time Wilson took up to national elections for the lower house elections in 2001. He represented the constituency of Hamilton South, he could not decide against the Labour candidate Bill Tynan for themselves. For the Scottish Parliament elections in 2003 was a candidate for the constituency Wilson Hamilton South, but could not prevail against the Labour candidate Tom McCabe himself. At the general election in 2005 Wilson stepped to the constituency of Lanark and Hamilton East, but only you third highest number of votes could notch up by the candidate of the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats. Originally Wilson was again provided in the 2007 parliamentary elections as a candidate for Hamilton South, but resigned in favor of Christina McKelvies. On the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for the election Region Central Scotland he took the sixth place. Because of standing in second place Michael Matheson won the direct mandate of the constituency Falkirk West, Wilson was one of the five members of the SNP, who moved to Central Scotland in the Parliament. As part of the constituency reform of 2011, the constituency was abolished in South Hamilton and Wilson ran for the parliamentary elections in 2011 for the constituency of Coatbridge and Chryston. He defeated the Labour politician Elaine Smith clearly, but went up again the regional list for Central Scotland in the Parliament on the one.