West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.

A reliable Conservative vote who has been using his position as Shadow Scottish Secretary to push back against Labour's energy policy. In March, Bowie led calls for a Commons vote on new North Sea oil and gas projects -- a direct constituency interest given West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine's dependence on the energy sector. He also voted to refer Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee over the Peter Mandelson appointment, and opposed the government's Pension Schemes Bill provision giving ministers power to direct pension fund investments. He has not once voted against his own party.

His parliamentary participation rate of 64% sits below the Commons average. He votes consistently against workers' rights measures and progressive taxation, and strongly with Conservative positions on business and crime. He diverges slightly from his party average on criminal justice reform and parliamentary scrutiny -- the latter at 100%, ten points above the Conservative norm. His speeches concentrate heavily on economy and jobs, and energy, reflecting his North Sea brief and his constituency's industrial base.

The strongest local news coverage -- all from early January -- centred on Bowie calling for military deployment to clear snow from cut-off Aberdeenshire communities, writing to both the First Minister and UK Government. That episode underlines a pattern of vocal constituency advocacy on acute local issues. Recent news coverage over 90 days is dominated by economy and jobs stories, averaging a moderately positive sentiment score of 0.56 on that topic. No committee memberships are recorded.