Andrew Bowie

One of the 2017 intake, Andrew Bowie is the first Conservative to represent West Aberdeen and Kincardine since its creation in 1997. Bowie was born in 1987 and after leaving school at the Inverurie Academy joined the Royal Navy, serving as an officer for three years. In 2010, he left the Navy and returned to education, studying History and Politics at the University of Aberdeen. The following year, he became the Conservative campaign manager for the North of Scotland, working on the 2014 European Election, the Scottish Independence Referendum and the 2015 general election. He worked as parliamentary assistant and rural policy advisor to Ian Duncan MEP then managed the office of Liam Kerr MSP following his election to the Scottish Parliament in 2016. In 2017, Bowie won the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine seat with a majority of almost 8,000, unseating the Scottish National Party MP Stuart Donaldson. He served from October 2017 to June 2018 on the Work and Pensions Committee and became the first of the new Scottish Conservative MPs to receive a promotion when he was appointed as the parliamentary private secretary to ministers at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport in February 2018. Ten months later, he was promoted again, this time to parliamentary private secretary to the then prime minister, Theresa May. He supported Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership contest and was re-elected in the 2019 general election with a much reduced majority of 843.