Victoria Park (ward)

Victoria Park
Victoria Park
	View looking south down Crow Road towards the Victoria Park ward (2015)
Area	4.41 km2 (1.70 sq mi)
Population	20,950 (2015)
• Density	4,750.6/sq mi (1,834.2/km2)
Council area	Glasgow City Council;
Lieutenancy area	Glasgow;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GLASGOW
Postcode district	G11, G13, G14
Dialling code	0141
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
	List of places UK Scotland Glasgow

Victoria Park (Ward 12) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Created as Partick West in 2007 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system;^[2] the boundaries were unchanged in 2012. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed, the ward decreased in size and population, was re-named Victoria Park and returned three members.

Boundaries

Located in the west of Glasgow, the core of the ward since its creation as Partick West in 2007 has been formed from the Broomhill, Thornwood, Jordanhill, Glasgow Harbour and Whiteinch neighbourhoods, along with a small part of Anniesland (south of Anniesland Road and west of the Argyle Line railway), and a small part of Partick (west of the Argyle/North Clyde Line railway), with the southern boundary being the River Clyde.

The 2017 changes removed all territory to the east of the railway lines: most of Partick and Partickhill, and part of Anniesland south of Great Western Road, which were added to a new Partick East/Kelvindale ward. With little of Partick now in the boundaries, a new name was adopted from Victoria Park which had been in part of the territory since its creation.

The ethnic makeup of the ward using the 2011 census population statistics was:

91.5% White Scottish / British / Irish / Other
6.3% Asian
1% Black (mainly African)
1.2% Mixed / Other Ethnic Group

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007	rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" \|	Aileen Colleran (Labour)	rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" \|	Christopher Mason (Liberal Democrats)	rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" \|	Kenny McLean (SNP)	rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" \|	Stuart Clay (Green)
2012	rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" \|	Aileen Colleran (Labour)	Feargal Dalton (SNP)	Martin Bartos (Green)		Kenny McLean (SNP)
2017	Maggie McTernan (Labour)	rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Feargal Dalton (SNP)	Ade Aibinu (Conservative)	3 seats

Election Results

2007

Partick West - 4 seats^[2]^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Kenny McLean	22.06	2,811
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Mason^[a]	17.73	2,259	2,300	2,325	2,354	2,411	2,910
	Labour	Aileen Colleran^[b]	16.47	2,099	2,115	2,128	2,150	2,199	2,275	2,316
	Scottish Green	Stuart Clay	12.51	1,594	1,652	1,744	1,789	1,963	2,175	2,304
	Labour	Irene Graham^[c]	13.33	1,699	1,716	1,732	1,741	1,785	1,866	1,920
	Conservative	Richard Alan Sullivan	11.02	1,404	1,419	1,419	1,529
	Solidarity	Jimmy Ross	2.93	373	402	465	472
	Scottish Unionist Party (modern)	George Aytoun Atkinson	2.08	265	268	271
	Scottish Socialist	Andrew Gray	1.88	240	253
Electorate: 23,574 Valid: 12,744 Spoilt: 197 Quota: 2,549 Turnout: 54.90%

^ Returning councillor for Jordanhill single-member ward.
^ Returning councillor for Partick single-member ward.
^ Returning councillor for Victoria Park single-member ward.

2012

Partick West - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Labour	Aileen Colleran (incumbent)	19.97%	1,884	1,885	1,890
	Scottish Green	Martin Bartos	14.71%	1,388	1,388	1,392	1,392	1,395	1,409	1,418	1,478	1,662	1,946
	SNP	Feargal Dalton	18.63%	1,757	1,757	1,758	1,758	1,759	1,760	1,767	1,776	1,813	1,913
	SNP	Kenny McLean (incumbent)	14.87%	1,403	1,403	1,403	1,403	1,405	1,410	1,421	1,434	1,479	1,538	1,553	1,575	1,813
	Labour	Michael Shanks	12.13%	1,144	1,144	1,147	1,149	1,153	1,156	1,167	1,190	1,258	1,380	1,394	1,395
	Conservative	John Anderson	10.33%	974	977	979	979	995	1,017	1,041	1,041	1,161
	Liberal Democrats	James Paris	5.54%	523	525	526	526	532	534	540	540
	Scottish Socialist	Andrew Gray	1.19%	112	112	113	113	113	113	114
	Scottish Christian	Donald Williamson	0.96%	91	91	91	91	95	102
	UKIP	Stuart Maskell	0.68%	64	65	65	65	77
	Scottish Unionist	Catherine Findlay	0.43%	41	59	60	60
	Glasgow First	Nicholas Black	0.29%	27	27
	Scottish Unionist	Robert Findlay	0.27%	25
Electorate: 25,686 Valid: 9,433 Spoilt: 198 Quota: 1,887 Turnout: 9,631 (37.50%)

2017

Victoria Park - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Feargal Dalton *	26.39%	2,248
	Conservative	Ade Aibinu	23.69%	2,018	2,019	2,022	2,148
	Labour	Maggie McTernan	19.97%	1,701	1,706	1,722	1,872	1,879	1,977	3,001
	Scottish Green	Allan Faulds	13.50%	1,150	1,172	1,190	1,336	1,339	1,937
	SNP	Deirdre Parkinson	10.05%	856	936	941	961	962
	Liberal Democrats	James Douglas Speirs	5.78%	492	494	497
	TUSC	Matt McGrath	0.61%	52	52
Electorate: 17,660 Valid: 8,517 Spoilt: 117 Quota: 2,130 Turnout: 48.9%

* = Sitting Councillor for Partick West ward.

References

^ City Ward Factsheets 2017: Ward 12 - Victoria Park, Glasgow City Council
^ ^a ^b ^c Teale, Andrew (27 December 2008). "Local Election Results 2007 (Glasgow)" (PDF). Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 4 May 2012.

External links

Listed Buildings in Victoria Park Ward, Glasgow City at British Listed Buildings

[3] Returning councillor for Jordanhill single-member ward.

[4] Returning councillor for Partick single-member ward.

[5] Returning councillor for Victoria Park single-member ward.

[1] City Ward Factsheets 2017: Ward 12 - Victoria Park, Glasgow City Council

[ateale-2] Teale, Andrew (27 December 2008). "Local Election Results 2007 (Glasgow)" (PDF). Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 4 May 2012.

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