Stephen McCabe is a Labour Party councillor and leader of Inverclyde Council.

A graduate of the University of Strathclyde where he studied economics,^[2] he has been a councillor since 1999, retaining his seat as the sole representative for 'Ward 6' in 2003. When larger, multi-member wards were created for the 2007 election, he stood successfully in Inverclyde East (covering Kilmacolm and eastern parts of Port Glasgow) and was re-elected there in 2012, 2017 and 2022.

He was leader of the local authority between May 2007 and February 2011, when he stepped down for family reasons,^[3] but was soon re-elected to the position in August of the same year, following the death of local MP David Cairns which in turn led to McCabe's successor Iain McKenzie being elected to Westminster in the 2011 Inverclyde by-election.^[1]