Andrew Bowie is the Scottish Conservative MP for West Aberdeen and Kincardine. Having first been elected to Parliament in the 2017 general election, he was reelected with a reduced majority of 843 over the Scottish National Party in 2019.
The constituency of Aberdeen West is a large rural seat spreading out from the west of the city of Aberdeen. Although this area had been Conservative for much of the post war period, the seat was represented by the Liberal Democrats between 1997 to 2015. More recently, in both Westminster and Holyrood elections, this constituency has been a tightly fought SNP-Conservative marginal.
- Andrew Bowie MP was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Equalities) in the Department for Business and Trade in February 2023. He was a junior minister at the Department for International Trade between October 2022 and February 2023.
Andrew Bowie was a Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party between 2019 and November 2021.
He previously served as PPS to Theresa May towards the end of her tenure as Prime Minister, and prior to that as the PPS to Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health.
Born in 1987, Bowie grew in Aberdeenshire. He later moved to the town of Inverurie where he attended Market Place School and Inverurie Academy.
Bowie joined the Royal Navy after leaving school, serving as a junior warfare officer for three years. He later studied History and Politics at the University of Aberdeen, and worked as an assistant to Ian Duncan MEP.
He supported Boris Johnson in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election, but in early 2022 suggested that he should be considering his position following ‘partygate.
Bowie lives in the constituency with his wife Swedish wife, Madeleine.
Email – andrew.bowie.mp@parliament.uk
Website www.andrewbowie.org.uk
Twitter – @AndrewBowie4WAK
