Stewart Stevenson

Stewart Stevenson (* October 15, 1946 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP).

Stevenson grew up in Cupar and attended Bell Baxter High School, he then went to the University of Aberdeen, which he left with a master 's degree in mathematics. Between 1969 and 1988 he worked for the Bank of Scotland and retired as head of technology development from. Stevenson was a lecturer at Heriot -Watt University in Edinburgh and Director of Business for Scotland.

Scottish Parliament

For the first time Stevenson joined the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999 elections at the national level. In his constituency Linlithgow he received the second highest number of votes behind the Labour candidate Mary Mulligan and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. The later First Minister Alex Salmond won in these elections the direct mandate of the constituency of Banff and Buchan, gave this but back in 2001. The overdue elections took Stevenson, SNP, and received 49.6 % of the vote and the direct mandate. He retired the first time in the Scottish Parliament and defended his position in the following elections in 2003 and 2007. During the second term Stevenson held various positions in the shadow cabinet of the SNP. He was scheduled from May 2003 to March 2004 as Deputy Secretary for Health and Social Justice, between September 2004 and September 2005 as deputy assistant secretary for drug policy and prisons, and finally as Deputy Secretary of State for Justice. After the 2007 parliamentary elections Stevenson was appointed Secretary of State for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change. In the winter of 2010 were numerous motorists following heavy snowfall firmly on the highways. For the missing warnings and precautions Stevenson was blamed, who resigned in the wake. As part of the reform constituency in 2011 Stevenson constituency Banff and Buchan was dissolved. At the parliamentary elections of 2011, Stevenson applied for the direct mandate of the constituency of Banffshire and Buchan Coast, had gone up in the large parts of the former constituency. He won the election in a vote share of 67.2 % - the largest of all the candidates. However, the highest absolute number of votes received Alex Salmond in the constituency of Aberdeenshire East. In the new Cabinet Stevenson was appointed Secretary of State for Environment and Climate Change.