Canal (ward)
Canal | |
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![]() Aerial view looking west over Milton which forms a large proportion of the Canal ward (2012) | |
Area | 14.40 km2 (5.56 sq mi) |
Population | 25,000 (2015)[1] |
• Density | 1,736/km2 (4,500/sq mi) |
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Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | GLASGOW |
Postcode district | G4, G21, G22, G23 |
Dialling code | 0141 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
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Canal (Ward 16) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Since its creation in 2007 it has returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system.[2] For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed and the ward decreased in population, but continued to return four councillors.
Boundaries
Located in the north of Glasgow, the ward includes Possilpark and Milton as well as Ruchill, Firhill, Hamiltonhill, Parkhouse, Lambhill, Port Dundas and part of Cowlairs, consisting of the streets to the west of the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line railway tracks which form the ward's eastern boundary (the exception is a small section of the Colston neighbourhood on the eastern side of the tracks which is included to Canal ward; however, this area is further divided with everything north of Colston Road belonging to the adjoining town of Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire). The west boundary is the Port Dundas branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which gives the ward its name.[3]
The 2017 changes added more territory west of the main canal (which was previously the boundary but now lies mostly within the ward), taking in the Cadder neighbourhood from the Maryhill/Kelvin ward, along with a large area around Balmore Road which is almost uninhabited. In contrast, the more densely populated North Kelvinside neighbourhood was reassigned to the Hillhead ward.
Councillors
Election | Councillors | |||||||
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2007 | rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" | | Kieran Wild (Greens) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Ellen Hurcombe (Labour) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Jim MacKechnie (Labour) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | Billy McAllister (SNP) |
2012 | Chris Kelly (Labour) |
Helen Stephen (Labour) | ||||||
2017 | rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | Allan Gow (SNP) |
Gary Gray (Labour) |
Robert Mooney (Labour) |
Jacqueline McLaren (SNP) |
Election Results
2007
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- On 27 March 2012, Cllr Ellen Hurcombe resigned from the Labour Party and became an Independent.
2012
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- On 24 April 2016 SNP Cllr Billy McAllister resigned from the party and became an Independent, claiming that the SNP leadership were intolerant to free speech.[4]
- On 21 November 2016, Labour Cllr Chris Kelly resigned from the council to take up a politically restricted position at HMRC. No by-election was called due to the resignation's proximity to the May 2017 elections.
2017
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See also
References
- ^ City Ward Factsheets 2017: Ward 16 - Canal, Glasgow City Council
- ^ a b Teale, Andrew (27 December 2008). "Local Election Results 2007 (Glasgow)" (PDF). Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ Council elections 2017: Canal ward moving from deprivation to regeneration, Evening Times, 3 April 2017
- ^ [1]
External links
- Listed Buildings in Canal Ward, Glasgow City at British Listed Buildings