Aberdeen City Council is the local government authority for the city of Aberdeen,Scotland. It was created in 1996,under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994,though a sense of Aberdeen as a city,with its own city council,can be traced back to 1900,when the county of the city of Aberdeen was created.
Michael Fraser Weir is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Angus in Scotland from 2001 to 2017 when he lost his seat to the Conservative Party. He served as the SNP Chief Whip in the House of Commons. Weir used to be a councillor and Convenor of the General Purposes Committee of Angus District Council. Prior to his election in 2001,he was a solicitor and Partner for J&DG Shiell in Brechin.
Aberdeen South is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats is a liberal,federalist political party in Scotland,a part of the United Kingdom Liberal Democrats. The party currently holds 4 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 4 of the 59 Scottish seats in the House of Commons.
The Politics of Aberdeen,Scotland have changed significantly in recent years. In 1996,under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994,Grampian Regional Council and Aberdeen District Council were dissolved,creating the new unitary Aberdeen City Council to represent the city's council area.
Kevin Morrice Stewart is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Minister for Transport from 29 March 2023 to 6 June 2023. He is a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Aberdeen Central since 2011. He previously served as Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care from 2021 to 2023 and as Minister for Local Government,Housing and Planning from 2016 to 2021.
The 2016 Scottish parliament election was held on Thursday,5 May 2016 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the fifth election held since the devolved parliament was established in 1999. It was the first parliamentary election in Scotland in which 16 and 17 year olds were eligible to vote,under the provisions of the Scottish Elections Act. It was also the first time the three largest parties were led by women.
Anne Margaret McTaggart is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician,and a Glasgow city councillor. She was previously a Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region from 2011 to 2016.
Mark McDonald is a Scottish politician who was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Aberdeen Donside constituency from 2013 to 2021,having previously represented the North East Scotland region between 5 May 2011 and 14 May 2013. Formerly a Scottish National Party politician and Minister for Childcare and Early Years in the Scottish Government,he was suspended by the SNP in November 2017 following allegations of inappropriate behaviour against several women. Following a party investigation,the claims were substantiated,McDonald issued an apology on 6 March 2018,announcing he had now left the SNP and would sit in the Scottish Parliament as an Independent.
The 2012 Aberdeen City Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Aberdeen City Council. The election used the 13 wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation,with 43 Councillors elected.
Andrew Egan Henderson Hendry,known as Drew Hendry,is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverness,Nairn,Badenoch and Strathspey since 2015. Hendry has served as the SNP's Economy Spokesperson in the House of Commons since September 2023.
Christian Allard is a French citizen and a Scottish politician. Allard was elected as a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election,serving until the 31 January 2020 when the Brexit process was completed. He is also a former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region 2013−2016 and has been a councillor for Aberdeen City Council since 2017.
The 2017 Scottish local elections were held on Thursday 4 May,in all 32 local authorities. The SNP retained its position as the largest party in terms of votes and councillors,despite suffering minor losses. The Conservatives made gains and displaced Labour as the second largest party,while the Liberal Democrats suffered a net loss of councillors despite increasing their share of the vote. Minor parties and independents polled well;and independent councillors retained majority control over the three island councils. For the first time since the local government reforms in 1995,all mainland councils fell under no overall control.
Owen George Thompson is a Scottish National Party politician currently serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Midlothian. He was elected in 2015,defeated at the 2017 general election,and regained the seat at the 2019 general election.
Joanna Strathdee was a Scottish National Party politician and a councillor on Aberdeenshire Council for the Huntly,Strathbogie and Howe of Alford ward. She served for a time as the SNP Group Leader from 2007 to 2012.
Mairi Angela Gougeon is a Scottish politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs,Land Reform and Islands since 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Angus North and Mearns since 2016.
There was a Scottish National Party leadership election to choose the new Depute leader of the Scottish National Party at the SNP's conference on 14–15 October 2016. The SNP's Westminster Group Leader Angus Robertson MP won the election.
The 2017 Aberdeen City Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Aberdeen City Council. The election used the 13 wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation,with a total of 45 Councillors elected,an increase in two members from 2012.
Stephen Mark Flynn is a Scottish politician who has served as the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons since December 2022. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South since the 2019 general election.
Elections to Aberdeen City Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections,it was held using single transferable vote (STV) –a form of proportional representation –in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
