Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Central | |
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Burgh constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | City of Glasgow |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2005 |
Member of Parliament | Alison Thewliss (SNP) |
Created from | Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen |
1885–1997 | |
Seats | One |
Type of constituency | Burgh constituency |
Created from | Glasgow |
Replaced by | Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Shettleston and Glasgow Springburn[1] |
Glasgow Central is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). In its current form, the constituency was first used in the general election of 2005, but there was also a Glasgow Central constituency from 1885 to 1997. The incumbent member is Alison Thewliss of the Scottish National Party.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Municipal Wards.[2]
1918-1945: "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point at the intersection of the centre lines of Parliamentary Road and Castle Street, thence southward along the centre line of Castle Street to the centre line of Alexandra Parade, thence eastward along the centre line of Alexandra Parade to the centre line of Firpark Street, thence southward along the centre line of Firpark Street and Ark Lane to the centre line of Duke Street, thence westward along the centre line of Duke Street to the centre line of Sydney Street, thence southward along the centre line of Sydney Street to the centre line of Gallowgate, thence westward along the centre line of Gallowgate to the centre line of Saltmarket, thence southward along the centre line of Saltmarket and Albert Bridge to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence westward along the centre line of the River Clyde to a point in line with the centre line of McAlpine Street, thence northward along the centre line of McAlpine Street, Pitt Street and Scott Street to the centre line of New City Road, thence south-eastward along the centre line of New City Road and Cowcaddens to the centre line of Buchanan Street, thence southward along the centre line of Buchanan Street to the centre line of Parliamentary Road, thence north-eastward along the centre line of Parliamentary Road to the point of commencement."
1945-1974: The Glasgow wards of Cowcaddens, Townhead, and part of Exchange.
1974-1983: The Glasgow wards of Calton, Dalmarnock, Exchange, and Townhead.
1983-1997: The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Central/Calton, Kingston/Hutchesontown, and Queen's Park/Crosshill.
2005–present: The Glasgow City wards of Anderston, Bridgeton/Dalmarnock, Calton, Govanhill, Hutchesontown, Kelvingrove, Kingston, Merchant City, Pollokshields East, Strathbungo, and Toryglen.
Glasgow Central is now one of seven constituencies covering the Glasgow City council area. All are entirely within the council area. Prior to the 2005 general election, the city area was covered by ten constituencies, of which two straddled boundaries with other council areas.
The Central constituency, as defined in 2005, includes parts of the former Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Shettleston, Glasgow Pollok and Glasgow Rutherglen constituencies.[3] Scottish Parliament constituencies for the area are predominantly Glasgow Southside on the South of the river and Glasgow Kelvin on the North of the river, with Calton, Bridgeton and Dalmarnock areas of Glasgow Shettleston as well as a single polling place each from Glasgow Cathcart and Glasgow Provan.
The new Central constituency sits across the River Clyde, and includes the areas of Kelvingrove, Anderston, Merchant City, Calton, Pollokshields, Gorbals and Govanhill.
Constituency profile
The constituency takes in Glasgow city centre, including Kelvingrove Art Gallery, the main rail stations, Glasgow Cathedral and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. All three of Glasgow's universities are here as well, making it supposedly the most educated constituency in Scotland.[citation needed] The large student population is an important factor in elections. The Merchant City is also here, yuppie housing built out of the disused cotton and tobacco warehouses. This area is a symbol of the rebirth of the city, and Glasgow Central is undoubtedly the most affluent constituency in Glasgow,[citation needed] although it also includes more deprived areas, such as Calton.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1885–1997
MPs since 2005
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2005 | Mohammad Sarwar | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2010 | Anas Sarwar | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | 2015 | Alison Thewliss | SNP |
Election results
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Alison Thewliss[8] | 20,658 | 52.5 | +35.0 | |
Labour | Anas Sarwar | 12,996 | 33.1 | −19.0 | |
Conservative | Simon Bone | 2,359 | 6.0 | −1.1 | |
Scottish Green | Cass Macgregor | 1,559 | 4.0 | +1.3 | |
UKIP | Stuart Maskell[9] | 786 | 2.0 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Young [10] | 612 | 1.6 | −14.8 | |
CISTA | James Marris | 171 | 0.4 | N/A | |
TUSC | Andrew Elliott [11] | 119 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Socialist Equality | Katie Rhodes | 58 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,662 | 19.5 | |||
Turnout | 39,318 | 55.4 | +4.5 | ||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | +27.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Anas Sarwar | 15,908 | 52.0 | +3.8 | |
SNP | Osama Saeed | 5,357 | 17.5 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Young | 5,010 | 16.4 | −1.4 | |
Conservative | John Bradley | 2,158 | 7.1 | +0.8 | |
Scottish Green | Alastair Whitelaw | 800 | 2.6 | −2.3 | |
BNP | Ian Holt | 616 | 2.0 | −0.4 | |
Scottish Socialist | James Nesbitt | 357 | 1.2 | −2.8 | |
UKIP | Ramsay Urquhart | 246 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
Pirate | Finlay Archibald | 128 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,551 | 34.5 | |||
Turnout | 30,572 | 50.9 | +7.0 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mohammad Sarwar | 13,518 | 48.2 | −6.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Isabel Nelson | 4,987 | 17.8 | +8.2 | |
SNP | Bill Kidd | 4,148 | 14.8 | −6.1 | |
Conservative | Richard Sullivan | 1,757 | 6.3 | +0.1 | |
Scottish Green | Gordon Masterton | 1,372 | 4.9 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Marie Gordon | 1,110 | 4.0 | −2.5 | |
BNP | Walter Hamilton | 671 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Ian Johnson | 255 | 0.9 | +0.5 | |
Christian Vote | Thomas Greig | 139 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Communist | Elinor McKenzie | 80 | 0.3 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 8,531 | 30.4 | |||
Turnout | 28,037 | 43.8 | +4.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −7.3 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael Goodall Watson | 17,341 | 57.2 | −7.3 | |
SNP | Brendan O'Hara | 6,322 | 20.8 | +10.9 | |
Conservative | Ewen N. Stewart | 4,208 | 13.9 | +0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alan Rennie | 1,921 | 6.3 | −4.2 | |
Scottish Green | Ms. Irene F. Brandt | 435 | 1.4 | +0.6 | |
Communist | Tam Dean Burn | 106 | 0.4 | −0.4 | |
Majority | 11,019 | 36.3 | |||
Turnout | 30,333 | 63.1 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | −9.1 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael Goodall Watson | 14,480 | 54.6 | −9.9 | |
SNP | Alex Neil | 8,018 | 30.2 | +20.3 | |
Conservative | A. Hogarth | 2,028 | 7.6 | −5.4 | |
Scottish Green | Ms. Irene F. Brandt | 1,019 | 3.8 | +1.9 | |
SLD | R. McCreadie | 411 | 1.5 | −9.0 | |
SDP | P. Kerr | 253 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Revolutionary Communist | L. Murdoch | 141 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Bill Kidd | 137 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Workers Revolutionary | D. Lettice | 48 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,462 | 24.4 | −27.1 | ||
Turnout | 52.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bob McTaggart | 21,619 | 64.5 | +11.5 | |
Conservative | Bernard Jenkin | 4,366 | 13.0 | −6.0 | |
Liberal | John Stephens Bryden | 3,528 | 10.5 | −6.2 | |
SNP | Alexander Bloomfield Wilson | 3,339 | 10.0 | −0.3 | |
Green | Andrew Brooks | 290 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Communist | John Patrick McGoldrick | 265 | 0.8 | −0.3 | |
Red Front | Derek Owen | 126 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 17,253 | 51.5 | |||
Turnout | 65.6 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bob McTaggart | 17,066 | 53.0 | ||
Conservative | W. Harvey | 6,104 | 19.0 | ||
Liberal | I. Nelson | 5,366 | 16.7 | N/A | |
SNP | P. Mallam | 3,300 | 10.3 | ||
Communist | John Patrick McGoldrick | 347 | 1.1 | ||
Majority | 10,962 | 34.1 | |||
Turnout | 62.8 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bob McTaggart | 4,902 | 60.8 | −11.7 | |
SNP | Gil Paterson | 2,122 | 26.3 | +16.2 | |
Conservative | Anna McCurley | 707 | 8.8 | −7.6 | |
National Front | John MacKenzie | 148 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Scottish Young Liberal | Graham Watson | 134 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Ecology | David Mellor | 45 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Social Democrat (1979) | Donald Kean | 10 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,780 | ||||
Turnout | 8,062 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas McLellan McMillan | 8,542 | 72.5 | ||
Conservative | Farooq Ahmed Saleem | 1,937 | 16.4 | ||
SNP | Stephen Graham Bird | 1,308 | 11.1 | ||
Majority | 6,605 | 56.0 | |||
Turnout | 11,787 | 59.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas McLellan McMillan | 9,231 | 63.6 | ||
SNP | Brian Nugent | 2,790 | 19.2 | ||
Conservative | Norman Woolfson | 1,880 | 13.0 | ||
Liberal | Eric Matthew Bennett | 605 | 4.2 | ||
Majority | 6,441 | 44.4 | |||
Turnout | 56.9 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas McLellan McMillan | 9,400 | 58.7 | ||
Conservative | M. Gourlay | 3,435 | 21.4 | ||
SNP | Stewart Martin Ewing | 2,211 | 13.8 | ||
Liberal | Alexander Paton Brodie | 982 | 6.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,965 | 37.2 | |||
Turnout | 63.0 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas McLellan McMillan | 7,936 | 66.0 | ||
Conservative | Gordon Rennie | 2,394 | 19.9 | ||
SNP | Angus Mclntosh | 1,688 | 14.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,542 | 46.1 | |||
Turnout | 59.2 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas McLellan McMillan | 11,673 | 74.8 | ||
Conservative | Ronald B Anderson | 3,924 | 25.2 | ||
Majority | 7,749 | 49.7 | |||
Turnout | 58.7 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James McInnes | 13,343 | 70.2 | ||
Unionist | George F Boyd | 5,679 | 29.9 | ||
Majority | 7,664 | 40.3 | |||
Turnout | 62.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James McInnes | 15,918 | 64.6 | ||
Unionist | Iain David Barber-Fleming | 8,712 | 35.4 | ||
Majority | 7,206 | 29.3 | |||
Turnout | 67.4 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James McInnes | 16,674 | 61.8 | ||
Unionist | Iain David Barber-Fleming | 10,307 | 38.2 | ||
Majority | 6,367 | 23.6 | |||
Turnout | 62.7 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James McInnes | 15,757 | 58.2 | ||
Unionist | William Sinclair | 10,875 | 40.2 | ||
United Socialist Movement | Guy Alfred Aldred | 411 | 1.5 | ||
Majority | 4,882 | 18.1 | |||
Turnout | 74.3 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James McInnes | 14,861 | 54.6 | ||
Unionist | James Riley Holt Hutchison | 11,857 | 43.6 | ||
United Socialist Movement | Guy Alfred Aldred | 485 | 1.8 | ||
Majority | 3,004 | 11.0 | |||
Turnout | 73.6 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | James Riley Holt Hutchison | 9,365 | 44.0 | ||
Labour | James McInnes | 7,849 | 36.9 | ||
Communist | R. Cooney | 2,709 | 12.7 | ||
Liberal | Norman Macleod Glen | 1,072 | 5.0 | ||
United Socialist Movement | Guy Alfred Aldred | 300 | 1.4 | ||
Majority | 1,516 | 7.1 | |||
Turnout | 21,295 | 59.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir William Alexander | 16,707 | 55.9 | ||
Labour | Richard Rapier Stokes | 13,186 | 44.1 | ||
Majority | 3,521 | 11.8 | |||
Turnout | 29,893 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Brig Gen Sir William Alexander KBE CB CMG DSO TD | 21,547 | 65.3 | ||
Labour | William Henry Porteous Martin | 11,456 | 34.7 | ||
Majority | 10,091 | 30.6 | |||
Turnout | 33,003 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir William Alexander | 18,336 | 50.9 | −8.2 | |
Labour | Craigie Mason Aitchison | 17,663 | 49.1 | +8.2 | |
Majority | 673 | 1.8 | −16.4 | ||
Turnout | 72.0 | +1.8 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -8.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir William Alexander | 18,258 | |||
Labour | James Dundas White | 12,617 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Sir William Alexander | 13,392 | |||
Labour | Edward Rosslyn Mitchell | 12,976 | |||
Liberal | Rt Hon. Harold John Tennant | 2,870 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Andrew Bonar Law | 15,437 | 49.9 | −28.9 | |
Labour | Edward Rosslyn Mitchell | 12,923 | 41.9 | +20.7 | |
Liberal | Sir George Paish | 2,518 | 8.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 2,514 | 8.0 | −49.6 | ||
Turnout | 71.2 | +18.3 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -24.8 |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Andrew Bonar Law | 17,653 | |||
Labour | David John Mitchel Quin | 4,736 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Mackintosh MacLeod | 5,341 | |||
Unionist | Gavin William Ralston | 266 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rt Hon. Charles Dickson | 6,888 | |||
Liberal | Alexander Falconer Murison | 5,907 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rt Hon Charles Scott Dickson | 6,713 | |||
Liberal | Alexander Falconer Murison | 6,058 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rt Hon. Charles Scott Dickson | 7,298 | 58.5 | +10.2 | |
Liberal | Thomas Gibson Bowles | 41.5 | −10.2 | ||
Majority | 17.0 | 20.4 | |||
Turnout | 82.8 | −0.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +10.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Andrew Mitchell Torrance | 6,720 | 51.7 | n/a | |
Conservative | John George Alexander Baird | 6,289 | 48.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 431 | 3.4 | n/a | ||
Turnout | 83.3 | n/a | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John George Alexander Baird | unopposed |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John George Alexander Baird | 5,621 | |||
Liberal | Edwin Adam | 3,792 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John George Alexander Baird | 6,085 | |||
Liberal | Walter Menzies | 5,245 |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John George Alexander Baird | 5,780 | |||
Liberal | Gilbert Beith | 4,423 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Gilbert Beith | 5,846 | |||
Conservative | John George Alexander Baird | 4,779 |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "'Glasgow Central', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
- ^ Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Sixth Schedule
- ^ Fifth Periodical Review, Boundary Commission for Scotland
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)
- ^ http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10527 26Aug15
- ^ "Comment and letters". The National. 27 November 2014. p. 25.
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- ^ "SNP pick first city candidates". Evening Times. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/glasgowcentral/
- ^ http://www.libdems.org.uk/general_election_candidates#Scotland
- ^ http://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/320.pdf
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934
- ^ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ^ Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac, 1927
- ^ The Times, 8 December 1923
- ^ The Times, 16 November 1922
- ^ a b c Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- ^ a b c British parliamentary election results 1885-1918
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1893
- ^ a b Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1889
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