Lewis Macdonald

Lewis Macdonald ( born January 1, 1957 in Stornoway) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party. At the age of ten he moved with his family in the Aberdeenshire region.

Political career

Macdonald visited the Inverurie Academy. He then went to the University of Aberdeen and graduated with a master's degree in history from. He then completed his PhD at the University of Aberdeen. After that he worked for the House of Representatives Frank Doran, before he found a job as a lecturer in history at the University of Aberdeen. In the following years, Macdonald was active in the campaign planning of the Labour Party and in turn for Frank Dornan. For the first time Macdonald joined the British general election, 1997 to national elections. In his constituency Moray, he was able to record the third highest number of votes for themselves and thus failed to reach the House of Commons.

Scottish Parliament

In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 Macdonald ran in the constituency Aberdeen Central. He won the direct mandate before the SNP candidate Richard Lochhead. In Parliament, Macdonald held in the following years various items. He was deputy from March to November 2001 State Secretary for Transport and Planning and directly afterwards deputy to the end of its term secretary of state for business, transport and lifelong learning. His successor was Alasdair Morrison. After he defended his mandate in the parliamentary elections in 2003, Macdonald was appointed first deputy secretary of state for business and lifelong learning. From October 2004 to June 2005, he held then the position of Deputy Secretary of State for Environment and Development of rural regions and was then up to the end of the legislature deputy assistant secretary for health. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he defended nearly be direct mandate from Aberdeen Central. Although Macdonald was able to expand its share of the vote in the parliamentary elections in 2011, he lost to the SNP candidate Kevin Stewart. As Macdonald, however, was also listed on the Regional Evaluation of the Labour Party for choosing North East Scotland on the front ranks, he received as a result of the election results is one of seven mandates list for the constituency.