Colin Clark (politician)
Colin James Clark is a Scottish Conservative politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Gordon from 8 June 2017 until 6 November 2019 He was unseated by the SNP candidate Richard Thomson at the 2019 general election by a narrow majority of 819 votes.
He had previously contested the East Aberdeenshire constituency at the 2016 Holyrood elections and finished second to the SNP's Gillian Martin with a 29% share of the vote. He was elected to Aberdeenshire Council in the 2016 by-election and re-elected in May 2017, shortly before the 2017 snap general election where he was elected as the MP for Gordon with a majority of 2,607 votes over former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond of the Scottish National Party.
He worked in business and agriculture until his election to the House of Commons.
He was educated at Turriff Academy, a comprehensive school and Heriot-Watt University.
In January 2019, was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Department for Work and Pensions. He also sat on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Backbench Committee. On 27 July 2019, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in the first Johnson ministry.
Clark narrowly lost his seat to SNP candidate Richard Thomson at the 2019 general election.
