| abstract | - Callum McCaig is a Scottish National Party politician and a councillor on Aberdeen City Council for the Kincorth/Loirston ward. Born in Aberdeen he took out a MA(Hons) in Politics at Edinburgh University and then worked for the SNP MSP Maureen Watt as a Parliamentary Assistant. McCaig was first elected in the Scottish local elections, 2007, topping the polling in his ward with 1,883 first preferences and taking the first seat exceeding the quota. Following the election the Scottish Liberal Democrats formed a coalition with the SNP to run the Council. After a number of by-election victories during 2010 and 2011, and a number of resignations from the Lib Dems, the SNP became the largest party on the Council and in June 2011 their then Council Leader stepped down to become Deputy Council Leader. As a result Callum McCaig, who had been acting as Deputy Council Leader, became the Leader of the Council in his stead on June 28, 2011. At the time at the age of 26 he was one of the youngest of Council Leaders in all of the United Kingdom. He was re-elected in the Scottish local elections, 2012, polling 1,389 first preferences and topping the poll in the ward. After the elections he remains the Group Leader of an enlarged SNP delegation but is no longer the Council Leader as the Scottish Labour Party formed an administration with the support of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and Independents. His mother, Dorothy, was an unsuccessful candidate in the Lower Deeside ward.
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