[[Nicola Sturgeon]]"},"term_start":{"wt":"September 2005"},"term_end":{"wt":"30 November 2020"},"predecessor":{"wt":"[[Winnie Ewing]]"},"successor":{"wt":"[[Michael Russell (Scottish politician)|Michael Russell]]"},"constituency_MP1":{"wt":"[[Scotland (Euro constituency)|Scotland]]
[[North East Scotland (European Parliament constituency)|North East Scotland]] (1998–1999)"},"term_start1":{"wt":"26 November 1998"},"term_end1":{"wt":"[[2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|1 July 2019]]{{cite web|title=Key dates ahead|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/elections-press-kit/0/key-dates-ahead|publisher=[[European Parliament]]|access-date=28 May 2019|date=20 May 2017}}{{cite web|title=Key dates ahead|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48365702|publisher=[[BBC]]|website=[[BBC News]]|access-date=28 May 2019|date=22 May 2017}}"},"parliament1":{"wt":"European"},"successor1":{"wt":"[[Christian Allard]]"},"predecessor1":{"wt":"[[Allan Macartney]]"},"birth_date":{"wt":"{{Birth date and age|1951|9|19|df=y}}"},"birth_place":{"wt":"[[Forfar]],Scotland"},"death_date":{"wt":""},"death_place":{"wt":""},"party":{"wt":"[[Scottish National Party]]"},"nationality":{"wt":"Scottish"},"spouse":{"wt":""},"relations":{"wt":""},"children":{"wt":""},"alma_mater":{"wt":""},"religion":{"wt":""},"website":{"wt":""}},"i":0}}]}" id="mwBw">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data div{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data div{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}
Ian Hudghton | |
---|---|
![]() | |
President of the Scottish National Party | |
In office September 2005 –30 November 2020 | |
Leader | Alex Salmond Nicola Sturgeon |
Preceded by | Winnie Ewing |
Succeeded by | Michael Russell |
Member of the European Parliament for Scotland North East Scotland (1998–1999) | |
In office 26 November 1998 – 1 July 2019 [1] [2] | |
Preceded by | Allan Macartney |
Succeeded by | Christian Allard |
Personal details | |
Born | Forfar,Scotland | 19 September 1951
Political party | Scottish National Party |
Ian Stewart Hudghton (born 19 September 1951) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was President of the SNP from 2005 to 2020. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North East Scotland (1998–1999) and its successor constituency;Scotland from 1999 to 2019.
Hudghton joined the SNP in 1967. [3] He was a District and Regional Councillor and the first elected leader of the unitary Angus Council after its foundation in 1995/6. He had some success as an election agent for John Swinney and Allan Macartney. [4]
He was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 1998, [5] when he won his seat in a rare European Parliamentary by-election,after the death of sitting SNP MEP Allan Macartney. [6]
Following the 2004 European elections,Hudghton became a member and Vice-President of the European Free Alliance Group in the Parliament,which retained its own identity within the joint Green-European Free Alliance Group. [7]
He was a member of the Fisheries,Internal Market and Consumer Protection,and Transport and Tourism committees.
In September 2005 Hudghton was elected as President of the SNP,following the retirement of Winnie Ewing. [8] He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural SNP Annual Awards in November 2018. [4]
He stood down as an MEP at the 2019 elections. [3]
The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political party that consists of various regionalist,separatist and ethnic minority political parties in Europe. Member parties advocate either for full political independence and sovereignty,or some form of devolution or self-governance for their country or region. The party has generally limited its membership to centre-left and left-wing parties;therefore,only a fraction of European regionalist parties are members of the EFA.
SNP Students is the student wing of the Scottish National Party (SNP),representing students in Scottish higher education. It was formed in 1961 when various student organisations supportive of Scottish independence and the SNP in particular decided to join forces into a new constituent body.
Winifred Margaret Ewing was a Scottish politician,lawyer and figure within the independence movement who served as President of the Scottish National Party from 1987 to 2005. Ewing was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Highlands and Islands from 1999 to 2003 and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the equivalent seat from 1979 to 1999. She was also a member of the British House of Commons for Hamilton from a 1967 by-election until 1970,and for Moray and Nairn from 1974 to 1979.
Douglas Henderson was a Scottish politician. He was Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1971 to 1973 and from 1979 to 1981. He served as a Scottish National Party Member of Parliament (MP) for East Aberdeenshire from 1974 to 1979,and held virtually every national office in the SNP,short of party leader. His political style has been described as "no-nonsense" and "very blunt and forthright". He was also known for his forceful public speaking,which former SNP leader Alex Salmond described as "messianic".
The 1999 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999. It was held on 10 June 1999. Following the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999,it was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom where the whole country used a system of proportional representation. In total,87 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom across twelve new regional constituencies.
Alyn Edward Smith is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling at the 2019 general election. He also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 2004 to 2019. He has been serving as SNP Spokesperson for Europe and EU Accession since December 2022.
David Martin is a Scottish politician who has served as co-convener of the Citizens' Assembly of Scotland since 2019. A member of the Scottish Labour Party,he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 2019,having first represented the Lothians constituency until 1999 and then for the Scotland constituency. He was the United Kingdom's longest serving MEP and the second longest serving MEP in the whole European Parliament.
Scotland was a constituency of the European Parliament created in 1999. It elected between eight and six MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation every five years from 1999 until 2020. The constituency was abolished after the United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.
Scotland has elections to several bodies:the Scottish Parliament,the United Kingdom Parliament,local councils and community councils. Before the United Kingdom left the European Union,Scotland elected members to the European Parliament.
William John Allan Macartney was a Scottish politician who served as a Scottish National Party MEP for the North East Scotland constituency between the 1994 European Parliament election and his sudden death from a heart attack in 1998.
The 2009 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election,the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009. The election was held concurrently with the 2009 local elections in England. In total,72 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation.
The Kincardine and Deeside by-election was a parliamentary election held in Kincardine and Deeside,Scotland,on 7 November 1991,caused by the death of the Conservative Member of Parliament,Alick Buchanan-Smith on 29 August 1991.
Eilidh Whiteford is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Banff and Buchan from 2010–17.
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.
David Adam Coburn is a Scottish politician and businessman who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 2014 to 2019. A former member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP),Coburn was the leader of UKIP Scotland from July 2014 until December 2018.
Christopher Charles Stephens is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow South West since the 2015 general election. He has been serving as SNP Spokesperson for Justice and Immigration since September 2023.
Stephen Patrick Gethins is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and academic. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from the 2015 general election,until he lost his seat at the 2019 general election to Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats. Subsequently,he was appointed Professor of Practice in International Relations at the University of St Andrews.
Peter Tierney Murrell is a former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP). He is married to Nicola Sturgeon,the former leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland.