David Duguid is the Conservative Party MP for Banff and Buchan, having first been elected to Parliament in 2017. He was re-elected in the 2019 General Election with a majority of 4,118 over the SNP.
The Banff and Buchan constituency is a rural and coastal seat found within the county Aberdeenshire in the north eastern corner of Scotland. It includes the towns of Fraserburgh, Peterhead and Turriff. Home to a strong fishing fleet, this seat was previously represented in Parliament by Alex Salmond for the SNP between 1987 and 2010.
David Duguid served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland between June 2020 and September 2021.
Born in 1970 on a farm along the River Deveron and educated locally at Banff Academy, Duguid attended Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, where he studied chemistry.
After university, he worked as an engineer for BP and then as a project manager for Hitachi Consulting. He later ran his own consulting firm (D&R Duguid Ltd), before being elected to Parliament.
Duguid backed Michael Gove in the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.
Email david.duguid.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.davidduguid.com
Twitter – @daviddaguidmp
