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MacDonald, Angus

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MacDonald, Angus

Former (left at end of session) Scottish National Party Falkirk East

Politically, you're most like Dey, Graeme SNP — similarity 83.3/100.

Divisions voted in
1,574
last on 24 Mar 2021
Party alignment
99.7%
0.3% rebellion
Attendance
96.0%
65 "Not Voted" of 1,639 divisions present
Motions lodged
570
470 questions · 1 unanswered
Hansard contributions
3,008
448 chamber · 2,560 committee
Allowances claimed
£150,191
2,052 transactions
Recent motions & questions
Recent rebellions

Divisions where they voted against their party's majority position.

Motion success

Of the motions they've lodged that went to a vote, how often did the chamber agree.

Lodged
570
Carried
0
Defeated
0
Not divided
570
Closest voting allies

MSPs who voted the same way most often across shared divisions.

Furthest apart on votes

MSPs they vote against most often.

MSPs like this one

Composite of voting agreement, sponsorship overlap, and Hansard topic affinity. Weighted 50 / 25 / 25.

Voice fingerprint

Words and phrases this MSP uses far more often than the chamber average (TF-IDF over their Hansard contributions).

Voting drift across sessions

Rebellion rate (vs party majority) per session.

0.4%
S4 · SNP
0.1%
S5 · SNP
Career arc

Unified timeline: party joinings, seat changes, committee appointments, ministerial roles.

  1. Left Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee
    04 May 2021
  2. Stood down from Falkirk East (Dissolution)
    04 May 2021
  3. Left Scottish National Party
    04 May 2021
  4. Left Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee
    24 Mar 2021
  5. Joined Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee as Member
    03 Sep 2019
  6. Left Public Petitions Committee
    26 Aug 2019
  7. Joined Public Petitions Committee as Deputy Convener
    16 Jun 2016
  8. Left Public Petitions Committee
    16 Jun 2016
  9. Joined Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee as Member
    08 Jun 2016
  10. Joined Public Petitions Committee as Member
    08 Jun 2016
  11. Started representing Falkirk East
    05 May 2016
  12. +
    Joined Scottish National Party
    05 May 2016
  13. Left Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  14. Left Public Petitions Committee
    23 Mar 2016
  15. Stood down from Falkirk East (Dissolution)
    23 Mar 2016
  16. Left Scottish National Party
    23 Mar 2016
  17. Joined Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee as Member
    18 Sep 2012
  18. Left Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee
    18 Sep 2012
  19. Joined Public Petitions Committee as Member
    07 Mar 2012
  20. Joined Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee as Member
    01 Jun 2011
  21. Started representing Falkirk East
    05 May 2011
  22. +
    Joined Scottish National Party
    05 May 2011
Recent contributions to the Official Report
  • Digital Connectivity Committee
    17 Mar 2021
    Thank you, minister. In the interests of time, convener, I am happy for you to move on.
  • Digital Connectivity Committee
    17 Mar 2021
    Given the minister’s comments, I should perhaps declare that I am a beneficiary of gainshare at my properties in the Outer Hebrides and had superfast broadband…
  • Subordinate Legislation Committee
    16 Mar 2021
    Following on from Claudia Beamish’s comments, I agree that there seems to be an issue on that point. We would not be aware of the situation at Red Rocks and Lo…
  • Transport (Update) Committee
    10 Mar 2021
    That is good to hear. I am sure that that will be welcomed not just by the committee but by our colleague Sandra White, who had a member’s bill on the issue in…
  • Transport (Update) Committee
    10 Mar 2021
    I turn to the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019. At our meeting on 2 September last year, we asked you about progress in developing secondary legislation on a rang…
Committee & government roles

Committee

Registered interests

25 total · showing most recent.

  • Gifts · 02 Jun 2016
    I am in receipt of the services of a research intern through Inclusion Scotland’s “We Can Work” initiative. The intern will undertake research into climate change during the course of the Climate Cha…
  • Overseas visits · 02 Jun 2016
    From 14 to 16 August 2018, at the invitation of the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland and campaign group Have You Got the Bottle?, I joined a cross party delegation of MSPs on a fact f…
  • Overseas visits · 02 Jun 2016
    From 14 to 16 August 2018, at the invitation of the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland and campaign group Have You Got the Bottle?, I joined a cross party delegation of MSPs on a fact f…
  • Heritable property · 02 Jun 2016
    I own a former church in the Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar area, with a market value of up to £50,000. I derive no income from the property and intend to use it as a residential home in the future. [Amen…
  • Heritable property · 02 Jun 2016
    I own a former church in the Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar area, with a market value of up to £50,000. I derive no income from the property and intend to use it as a residential home in the future. [Amen…
  • Heritable property · 02 Jun 2016
    I own a former church in the Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar area, with a market value of up to £50,000. I derive no income from the property and intend to use it as a residential home in the future. [Amen…
  • Voluntary · 02 Jun 2016
    I own a former church in the Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar area, with a market value of up to £50,000. I use the property as a residential home.
  • Controlled transactions · 02 Jun 2016
    No registrable interests
Career timeline

Party

Seats