Donald Boyd

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Dr Donald Boyd is the Leader of the Scottish Christian Party and was the lead candidate on the Highlands and Islands Regional list for the Scottish Parliamentary Election in May 2011.  He is standing for The Highland Council in the Inverness South Ward 20 local election in May 2012.

Donald is chairman of the Westhill Community Council and has been central to organising the largest community council input to the traffic management issues around the development of the Beechwood Campus and the University of the Highlands and Islands.  He is also involved with Inverness Civic Trust in securing the best possible option for the Inverness southern bypass and crossing of the river Ness and historic Caledonian Canal.

He contested the Inverness and Nairn constituency in the May 2010 General Election.

Click here for the Election leaflet for Highlands and Islands Region.

Donald was appointed Leader in October 2010.  He was campaign manager for the Highlands and Islands for the 2007 Holyrood Election when the Scottish Christian Party came from a standing start to overtake ten established Parties.  As leader he has developed the infra-structure of the Party, organised the membership, organised the first annual Conference in Oct 2011 and led the Party in the transition from the necessary and initial top-down development to the bottom-up development from grass-roots level.  To this end, the Party is fighting the local council elections in May 2012.

He maintains the website with Christian responses to topical issues, and has engaged with the Scottish Government with the most comprehensive Christian response to the consultation on redefining marriage.

Dr Boyd is the Chairman of the Inverness branch of the party with a dedicated team of supporters who see the vision for bringing a Christian Voice into public life.  He stood for the Westminster Parliament in May 2010 in the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey constituency against Danny Alexander, MP, with the slogan “Choose a serving Christian instead of a career politician.  One day will fix the next five years.”

Donald is an Inverness-based medical doctor who was educated at Glasgow University.  He keeps fit by working as a Street Pastor and by climbing lampposts during Election campaigns as a substitute for the hill-walking he used to do.  He is currently helping with the first initiative in daytime Street Pastors being pioneered in Inverness.

He is a senior tutor of advanced motoring, a keen historian and genealogist, and an astronomer with special interest in astrophysics.  He has many other interests and spends much time writing, among which is his unpublished commentary on the whole Bible.