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He was selected to contest the Gordon constituency for the second time in the 2019 general election. He won the seat from the Conservative incumbent Colin Clark, with a majority of 819 votes, a 1.4% majority.

Thomson was leader of Aberdeenshire Council from June 2015 until May 2017 and he currently represents the council on the North Sea Commission, where he is vice-chair of the Marine Resources Group.

He contributed a chapter exploring the 'social democratisation of the SNP' to a book on post-devolution politics called Breaking Up Britain – Four Nations After a Union published in 2009 by Lawrence & Wishart.

In August 2009, he was one of the three speakers in London at the What are the implications of Scottish Independence - for England? event hosted by the SNP, that discussed implications for England in areas such as defence, taxation, the role of the Monarchy, and possible political re-alignments.

He was former Head of Campaigns for the Scottish National Party and the party's Westminster Head of Research before returning to Aberdeenshire in the Summer of 2008 to work for First Minister Alex Salmond.

In 2001, he unsuccessfully contested the Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale constituency, a Liberal Democrats safe seat where he came 4th with 4,108 votes (12.4%). In 2010 he stood in the Gordon constituency where the Liberal Democrat Malcolm Bruce retained his seat but where Thomson took the SNP into second place.

Richard Gordon Thomson (born 16 June 1976) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He is the leader of the SNP group on Aberdeenshire Council and has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gordon since the 2019 general election.