Pete is the Member of Parliament for Perth and North Perthshire and was previously the MP for North Tayside from 2001-2005.
The Perth and North Perthshire seat was created after the 2005 Westminster boundary changes in Scotland and takes in East and Highland Perthshire, the City of Perth and the Carse of Gowrie. Pete held the seat with a majority of 9,641 over the Conservatives, 50.5% of the vote in the 2015 General Election.