Stewart McDonald (politician)

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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 (age 38)
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 to campaign for a Yes vote in the Irish referendum on same-sex marriage, being held 3 days later.[5]

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

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