Cambuslang is a town on the south-eastern outskirts of Greater Glasgow,Scotland. With approximately 30,000 residents,it is the 27th largest town in Scotland by population,although,never having had a town hall,it may also be considered the largest village in Scotland. It is within the local authority area of South Lanarkshire and directly borders the town of Rutherglen to the west. Historically,it was a large civil parish incorporating the nearby hamlets of Newton,Flemington,Westburn and Halfway.
Patricia Josephine Ferguson is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow West since the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Ferguson was also a Glasgow City Council Councillor,until her resignation on September 2nd 2024.
Rutherglen and Hamilton West was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,which was created for the 2005 general election. It covered almost all of the former constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen and most of the former constituency of Hamilton South,and it elected one member of parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system.
Scottish Labour,is the part of the UK Labour Party active in Scotland. Ideologically social democratic and unionist,it holds 22 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 37 of 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It is represented by 262 of the 1,227 local councillors across Scotland. The Scottish Labour party has no separate Chief Whip at Westminster.
The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday,5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.
James Anthony Kelly is a Scottish politician who has served as General Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party since 2021. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region between 2016 and 2021,having previously been MSP for Rutherglen from 2007 to 2016.
Anne McLaughlin is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North East from 2019 to 2024,and previously from 2015 to 2017. She has been SNP Spokesperson for International Development since 2023.
Christopher Charles Stephens is a Scottish National Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow South West from 2015 until 2024. He was SNP Spokesperson for Justice and Immigration between September 2023 to July 2024.
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2015 and all 59 seats in Scotland were contested under the first-past-the-post,single-member district electoral system. Unlike the 2010 general election,where no seats changed party,the Scottish National Party (SNP) won all but three seats in Scotland,gaining a total of 56 seats. The SNP received what remains the largest number of votes gained by a single political party in a United Kingdom general election in Scotland in British history,breaking the previous record set by the Labour Party in 1964 and taking the largest share of the Scottish vote in sixty years,at approximately 50 per cent.
Mhairi Black is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons from 2022 to 2024,and as a Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South from 2015 to 2024.
Douglas Chapman is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife from the 2015 general election until he stood down at the 2024 general election. He served as the SNP's Small Business,Enterprise and Innovation spokesperson whilst in Parliament.
Margaret Ferrier is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2015 to 2017,and again from 2019 to 2023. She was first elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election as the Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate for the constituency. She lost her seat to Ged Killen of the Labour Party at the 2017 general election but regained it at the 2019 election.
Brendan O'Hara is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He serves as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Argyll,Bute and South Lochaber since the 2024 election,having previously represented the Argyll and Bute constituency from 2015 to 2024. He has been the SNP spokesperson for Foreign Affairs since September 2023. He served as the SNP Digital,Culture,Media and Sport spokesperson from 2017 to 2018,the SNP Defence spokesperson from 2015 to 2017,SNP International Development spokesperson from 2022 to 2023,and SNP Chief Whip in 2023.
Tommy Sheppard is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh East from 2015 until the seat's abolition in 2024. He has been SNP Spokesperson for Scotland since 2023. He is a former SNP spokesperson for the Cabinet Office and a former SNP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. He is also known for founding The Stand Comedy Clubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Clare Joan Haughey is a Scottish politician who served as Minister for Children and Young People from 2021 to 2023,having previously served as Minister for Mental Health from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Rutherglen since in the 2016.
A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 8 June 2017;all 59 seats in Scotland were contested under the first-past-the-post electoral system.
Gerard Killen is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2017 to 2019.
Volt United Kingdom,commonly known as Volt UK,is a pro-European political party in the United Kingdom. It is the British branch of Volt Europa,a political movement that operates on a European level.
A 2023 by-election took place in the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West on 5 October 2023,following the recall of incumbent MP Margaret Ferrier.
The 2024 general election was held on 4 July 2024. 57 Scottish Westminster seats were contested. The election saw a resurgence of Labour within Scotland,with the party winning 37 seats,an increase of 36 from the previous election and becoming the largest party in Scotland for the first time since 2010. The Liberal Democrats also saw gains,increasing their Scottish representation in Parliament from four seats to six. The Scottish National Party,the dominant party in Scotland since 2007,saw a collapse of support in which they lost 39 seats,bringing their total from 48 seats won at the previous election to nine. This was their worst Westminster election result since 2010. The Conservative Party lost one seat,taking their total down to five. Turnout dropped to 59%,eclipsed for the first time by a preceding Scottish Parliament election (63.5%). This was a reduction in turnout of 8.4% from 2019 and in a few constituencies the turnout was down 10%.
