Bruce Crawford

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Bruce Crawford MSP
Bruce Crawford
Incumbent
Assumed office 
17th May, 2007
Preceded by Margaret Curran
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Stirling
Incumbent
Assumed office 
3rd May 2007
Preceded by Sylvia Jackson
Majority 620 (1.9%)
Born February 16, 1955 (1955-02-16) (age 53)
Political party Scottish National Party

Bruce Crawford, born (February 16, 1955, Perth) is a Scottish National Party politician, the Minister for Parliamentary Business and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Stirling.

He was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent Mid Scotland and Fife at the 1999 election. At the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election he gained the Stirling seat from the Labour party.

He was re-elected in 2003 and currently serves as the SNP's Business Manager in the Scottish Parliament. He ran John Swinney's campaign to be re-elected SNP National Convenor when he was challenged by Dr. Bill Wilson in late 2003.

Following the adoption of a new constitution by the SNP in 2004 Crawford was appointed as the SNP's Business Convener. After the SNP's victory at the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Crawford became the Minister for Parliamentary Business.

Prior to entering politics Mr Crawford was a human resource manager with the Scottish Office and served as councillor for Kinross on Perth and Kinross District Council from 1988 to 1996 and on Perth and Kinross Council from 1995 to 2001. Mr Crawford was also Leader of Perth and Kinross Council from 1995 to 1999.

Mr Crawford is married to Jacqueline and they have three sons.

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Scottish Parliament
Preceded by
Sylvia Jackson		 Member of the Scottish Parliament for Stirling
2007–present		 Incumbent


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Flag of Scotland     Members of the Scottish Parliament in the Mid Scotland and Fife region

Elected in the 2007 election

SNP (6 seats), Labour (5 seats), Conservative (3 seats), Lib Dems (2 seats)

Constituency MSPs
Helen Eadie (Lab, Dunfermline East) • Jim Tolson (Lib Dem, Dunfermline West) • Tricia Marwick (SNP, Fife Central) • Iain Smith (Lib Dem, Fife North East) • Marilyn Livingstone (Lab, Kirkcaldy) • John Swinney (SNP, North Tayside) • Keith Brown (SNP, Ochil) • Roseanna Cunningham (SNP, Perth) • Bruce Crawford (SNP, Stirling)

Additional Members
Claire Baker (Lab) • Ted Brocklebank (Con) • Murdo Fraser (Con) • Chris Harvie (SNP) • John Park (Lab) • Richard Simpson (Lab) • Elizabeth Smith (Lab)
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Scottish National Party MSPs

Elected in the 2007 election
Brian Adam · Bashir Ahmad · Alasdair Allan · Keith Brown · Aileen Campbell · Willie Coffey · Angela Constance · Bruce Crawford · Roseanna Cunningham · Nigel Don · Bob Doris  · Fergus Ewing · Linda Fabiani · Joe Fitzpatrick · Kenneth Gibson · Rob Gibson · Christine Grahame · Chris Harvie · Jamie Hepburn · Fiona Hyslop · Adam Ingram · Bill Kidd · Richard Lochhead · Kenny MacAskill · Tricia Marwick · Jim Mather · Michael Matheson · Stewart Maxwell · Ian McKee · Christina McKelvie · Stuart McMillan · Alasdair Morgan · Alex Neil  · Gil Paterson · Shona Robison · Michael Russell · Alex Salmond · Shirley-Anne Somerville · Stewart Stevenson · Nicola Sturgeon · John Swinney · David Thompson · Maureen Watt · Andrew Welsh · Sandra White · Bill Wilson · John Wilson
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