Stewart McDonald (politician)

Not to be confused with Stuart McDonald (Scottish politician), the SNP MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East since 2015; or with Stewart MacDonald, an SNP member of East Dunbartonshire Council; or with Stuart McDonald (Australian politician).
Stewart McDonald
MP
Member of Parliament
for Glasgow South
Assumed office
8 May 2015
Preceded by Tom Harris
Majority 12,269 (25.15%)
Personal details
Born Stewart Malcolm McDonald
(1986-08-24) 24 August 1986
Glasgow, Scotland
Political party Scottish National Party

Stewart Malcolm McDonald (born 24 August 1986) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Glasgow South constituency since May 2015 and is a member of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.[1]

Born in Castlemilk, Glasgow, his family moved to Govan at the age of 5, as his father was a caretaker at a local primary school. He left Govan High School at 18, and worked in a variety of jobs including as a retail manager and a holiday rep in Tenerife before becoming a parliamentary case worker for Anne McLaughlin MSP.[2] After the 2011 Scottish Parliament Elections, he became a case worker for James Dornan MSP.[3]

Stewart was selected unopposed as the SNP candidate for the Glasgow South constituency in October 2014. In the 2015 UK Parliamentary Election, McDonald was elected with 54.9% of the vote,[4] defeating the Labour incumbent Tom Harris. His total represented the largest number of actual SNP votes in the city, and the largest majority.[4]

McDonald is gay and, on 19 May 2015, gathered with other LGBT SNP MPs, including his near-namesake Stuart McDonald, to campaign for a Yes vote in the Irish referendum on same-sex marriage, being held 3 days later.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Transport Committee — membership". House of Commons. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Analysis: SNP bucks trend for privately educated MPs". David Leask. The Herald. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Paterson, Stewart (7 November 2014). "General election: battle for Glasgow". Evening Times. Newsquest. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Glasgow South Parliamentary constituency". BBC Election 2015. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  5. ↑ ""The Gayest Group in Westminster" is urging Ireland to vote Yes to same-sex marriage". BuzzFeed. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Tom Harris		 Member of Parliament
for Glasgow South
2015–present 		Incumbent
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