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== Career ==
== Career ==
On 21 June 1990, Dewar voted in favor of Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill (now Act), which amended the Abortion Act 1967 to provide legal framework for destructive and [[anti-life]] embryo research.<ref>[https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1990-06-21/debates/13c329d8-0276-4bd4-a127-b0994d9a244b/AmendmentOfLawRelatingToTerminationOfPregnancy Amendment Of Law Relating To Termination Of Pregnancy]</ref>
On 21 June 1990, Dewar voted in favor of Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill (now Act), which amended the Abortion Act 1967 to provide legal framework for destructive and [[anti-life]] embryo research.<ref>[https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1990-06-21/debates/13c329d8-0276-4bd4-a127-b0994d9a244b/AmendmentOfLawRelatingToTerminationOfPregnancy Amendment Of Law Relating To Termination Of Pregnancy]</ref>
Following the UK Labour Party's landslide election victory on 1 May 1997, Dewar settled the outlines for the plans for a Scottish Parliament in which all powers, except those specifically reserved for Westminster, would be subject to a Scottish Parliament.
On 11 September 1997, Dewar won a mandate for his plans for a Scottish Parliament through a referendum, with 74% of those voting supporting a Scottish Parliament, and 64% voting for the new parliament to have tax-raising powers.<ref name="obituary" />
At the first Scottish Parliament election, which was held on 6 May 1999, Dewar won the seat of [[Glasgow]] Anniesland with 58.8% of the vote, with the SNP's Kaukab Stewart coming in a distant second with 20.2%. This gave Dewar the unusual distinction of representing the same seat in both the British and Scottish Parliaments. Labour overall won 38.8% of the vote with 56 seats, the largest party in the newly created body. He was elected by the Scottish Parliament as the nominee for First Minister of Scotland, receiving 71 votes by MSPs. He formed the first Scottish Executive with [[Jim Wallace]]'s Liberal Democrats,<ref name="obituary">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Uuut2RFEAAAJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1369933/Donald-Dewar.html&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Donald Dewar]</ref> as Labour didn't have an absolute majority to form an executive.
At the first Scottish Parliament election, which was held on 6 May 1999, Dewar won the seat of [[Glasgow]] Anniesland with 58.8% of the vote, with the SNP's Kaukab Stewart coming in a distant second with 20.2%. This gave Dewar the unusual distinction of representing the same seat in both the British and Scottish Parliaments. Labour overall won 38.8% of the vote with 56 seats, the largest party in the newly created body. He was elected by the Scottish Parliament as the nominee for First Minister of Scotland, receiving 71 votes by MSPs. He formed the first Scottish Executive with [[Jim Wallace]]'s Liberal Democrats,<ref name="obituary">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Uuut2RFEAAAJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1369933/Donald-Dewar.html&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Donald Dewar]</ref> as Labour didn't have an absolute majority to form an executive.