Bob Doris is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party

Scottish National Party

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 (SNP), he was elected to the Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

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 to represent Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

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 at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.

Life and career

At the 2007 election Doris contested the Glasgow Maryhill Scottish Parliament constituency, finishing second to Patricia Ferguson, majority 2,300. Prior to the election Doris had acted as campaign manager to Bill Wilson when Wilson challenged John Swinney

John Swinney

John Ramsey Swinney is the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth in the Scottish Government and the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament for Perthshire North, having previously represented North Tayside...

 for the SNP leadership in 2003.

Doris was also convener of the SNP Maryhill Constituency Branch and Glasgow Regional Association SNP (GRA) for a number of years. Before the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary elections Doris was set to be council candidate for the Maryhill/Kelvin ward at the Glasgow City Council elections of 2007. Doris resigned his nomination for the Council seat to avoid the possibility of being elected on a dual mandate.

Since his election, Doris has campaigned successfully on a number of issues including free school meal

Free school meal

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s, kinship care payments and Town Centre Regeneration Fund money for Glasgow. He was a leading campaigner against the Glasgow Labour Council's closure of 20 primary and nursery schools, and supported the parental occupation of Wyndford and St Gregory's primary schools in Maryhill. Doris convenes the Scottish Parliament's cross party group on Racial Equality in Scotland.

In a YouTube

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 video, Doris encouraged anyone of Irish decent to tick 'Irish

Irish people

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' as their ethnicity in the 2011 Scottish

Scotland

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 Census

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.

In the 2011

Scottish Parliament election, 2011

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, Doris was the SNP candidate for the redrawn seat of Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn

Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It will elect one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

. He was also placed 3rd on the SNP regional list for Glasgow

Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Glasgow is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament , which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament...

 behind Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon

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 and Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf is a Scottish National Party member of the Scottish Parliament for the Glasgow region, elected in 2011 via the Mixed Member Proportional Representation from the Party List....

. He was unsuccessful in gaining Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, losing to Labour's Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Ferguson

Patricia Josephine Ferguson is a Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill, a seat which she has held since 1999.- Background :...

, but was returned as one of two Glasgow list SNP MSPs alongside Yousaf