Canal (ward)
Canal | |
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![]() Canal Ward (2017) within Glasgow | |
![]() 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) |
Council area | |
Lieutenancy area |
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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 |
Canal (Ward 16) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council.[2] Since its creation in 2007 it has returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system.[3] For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed and the ward decreased in population, but continued to return four councillors.
Boundaries
[edit]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.[4]
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
[edit]Election | Councillors | |||||||
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2007 | Kieran Wild (Greens) |
Ellen Hurcombe (Labour) |
Jim MacKechnie (Labour) |
Billy McAllister (SNP/ Independent) | ||||
2012[5] | Chris Kelly (Labour) |
Helen Stephen (Labour) | ||||||
2016 | ||||||||
2017[6] | Allan Gow (SNP) |
Gary Gray (Labour) |
Robert Mooney (Labour) |
Jacqueline McLaren (SNP) | ||||
2022[7] | Fiona Higgins (Labour) |
Election results
[edit]2022 election
[edit]2022 Glasgow City Council election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
SNP | Allan Gow (incumbent) | 25.4 | 1,470 | ||||||||||
Labour | Fiona Higgins | 23.5 | 1,363 | ||||||||||
Independent | Brian Land | 12.8 | 746 | 760 | 770 | 779 | 793 | 798 | 831 | 875 | 877 | ||
Labour | Robert Mooney (incumbent) | 11.9 | 690 | 698 | 851 | 871 | 888 | 899 | 1,036 | 1,087 | 1,089 | 1,418 | |
SNP | Jacqueline McLaren (incumbent) | 8.8 | 512 | 733 | 739 | 743 | 761 | 976 | 979 | 1,172 | |||
Scottish Green | Seonad Mairi Hoy | 5.6 | 322 | 344 | 351 | 367 | 377 | 399 | 410 | ||||
Conservative | Maria Wells | 5.2 | 299 | 300 | 305 | 316 | 321 | 322 | |||||
SNP | Sandra Watson | 3.9 | 226 | 251 | 252 | 256 | 268 | ||||||
Alba | Martin Lawson Olu-Osagie | 1.7 | 96 | 99 | 100 | 103 | |||||||
Liberal Democrats | Scott Simpson | 1.2 | 68 | 69 | 74 | ||||||||
Electorate: 19,686 Valid: 5,792 Spoilt: 346 Quota: 1,159 Turnout: 31.2% |
2017 election
[edit]2017 Glasgow City Council election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
SNP | Allan Gow | 29.93% | 1,727 | |||||||||||
Labour | Gary Gray | 25.54% | 1,474 | |||||||||||
SNP | Jacqueline McLaren | 12.48% | 720 | 1,187 | ||||||||||
Labour | Robert Mooney | 8.98% | 518 | 526 | 747 | 749 | 755 | 769 | 778 | 792 | 889 | 1,015 | 1,195 | |
Conservative | Esme Clark | 8.84% | 510 | 516 | 529 | 529 | 531 | 538 | 556 | 561 | 583 | 636 | ||
Independent | Billy McAllister (incumbent) | 5.39% | 311 | 332 | 343 | 346 | 353 | 359 | 371 | 389 | 449 | |||
Scottish Green | Andrew Smith | 4.77% | 275 | 297 | 304 | 315 | 320 | 339 | 343 | 367 | ||||
TUSC | Angela McCormick | 1.07% | 62 | 69 | 77 | 78 | 84 | 87 | 94 | |||||
UKIP | Stuart Maskell | 1.11% | 64 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 74 | ||||||
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Chamberlain | 0.97% | 56 | 57 | 61 | 62 | 63 | |||||||
Independent | Amjad Mirza | 0.94% | 54 | 56 | 60 | 60 | ||||||||
Electorate: 19,137 Valid: 5,771 Spoilt: 327 Quota: 1,155 Turnout: 31.9% |
2012 election
[edit]2012 Glasgow City Council election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
Labour | Chris Kelly[a] | 29.61% | 1,869 | ||||||||||||
SNP | Billy McAllister (incumbent)[b] | 22.83% | 1,441 | ||||||||||||
Labour | Helen Stephen | 14.89% | 940 | 1,424 | |||||||||||
Scottish Green | Kieran Wild (incumbent) | 9.27% | 585 | 596 | 601 | 622 | 623 | 634 | 667 | 724 | 767 | 797 | 846 | 1,159 | |
SNP | Gavin Roberts | 8.44% | 533 | 547 | 696 | 708 | 709 | 715 | 735 | 747 | 758 | 775 | 813 | ||
Socialist Labour | Jim Berrington | 4.29% | 271 | 289 | 293 | 310 | 311 | 313 | 342 | 345 | 351 | 372 | |||
Scottish Unionist | Brian Brown | 3.91% | 247 | 254 | 256 | 261 | 275 | 278 | 290 | 292 | 332 | ||||
Conservative | Margaret Walker | 2.34% | 148 | 151 | 151 | 154 | 157 | 160 | 160 | 184 | |||||
Liberal Democrats | Caroline Johnston | 1.84% | 116 | 119 | 121 | 126 | 126 | 127 | 129 | ||||||
TUSC | Angela McCormick | 1.70% | 107 | 113 | 116 | 121 | 122 | 127 | |||||||
Glasgow First | Fay Dornan | 0.54% | 34 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 43 | ||||||||
Scottish Unionist | Graham Nicholls | 0.33% | 21 | 24 | 25 | 27 | |||||||||
Electorate: 23,679 Valid: 6,312 Spoilt: 255 Quota: 1,263 Turnout: 27.73 % |
- ^ On 21 November 2016, 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.[11]
- ^ McAllister resigned from the SNP and became an independent in April 2016, claiming that party leadership were intolerant to free speech.[12]
2007 election
[edit]2007 Glasgow City Council election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
SNP | Billy McAllister[a] | 29.15 | 2,514 | |||||||||
Labour | Ellen Hurcombe[b]††††††††††† | 22.74 | 1,961 | |||||||||
Labour | Jim MacKechnie[c] | 12.23 | 1,055 | 1,118 | 1,247 | 1,263 | 1,274 | 1,288 | 1,333 | 1,393 | 1,692 | |
Scottish Green | Kieran Wild | 8.15 | 703 | 793 | 797 | 809 | 819 | 887 | 929 | 1,115 | 1,157 | |
Liberal Democrats | Norman Fraser | 6.81 | 587 | 651 | 658 | 673 | 693 | 711 | 814 | 861 | 905 | |
Labour | Haleema Malik[d] | 6.71 | 579 | 608 | 631 | 637 | 644 | 653 | 673 | 729 | ||
Solidarity | Angela McCormick | 4.93 | 425 | 544 | 553 | 567 | 584 | 648 | 660 | |||
Conservative | David E Ledgerwood | 3.92 | 338 | 358 | 361 | 368 | 451 | 453 | ||||
Scottish Socialist | Kirsteen Redpath | 2.03 | 175 | 222 | 224 | 231 | 235 | |||||
Scottish Unionist | Brian Brown | 2.24 | 193 | 214 | 217 | 225 | ||||||
Independent | James Cruickshank | 1.09 | 94 | 119 | 120 | |||||||
Electorate: 22,344 Valid: 8,624 Spoilt: 264 Quota: 1,725 Turnout: 39.78% |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ City Ward Factsheets 2017: Ward 16 - Canal, Glasgow City Council
- ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Election Results 2012". glasgow.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012.
- ^ "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Notice of election agents". Glasgow City Council. Retrieved 4 April 2022.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Declaration of Results Report Ward 16 Canal". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Candidate votes per stage Ward 16 Canal". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
- ^ "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- ^ "Glasgow's balance of power on knife-edge as Labour member Chris Kelly quits politics". The Herald. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Glasgow SNP councillor quits "Stalinist" party". The Herald. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- Listed Buildings in Canal Ward, Glasgow City at British Listed Buildings