Dr William Laurence Wilson is a former Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He was a regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West of Scotland region from 2007 to 2011. He left the SNP in 2017 and now serves as co-convener of the Edinburgh Branch of the Scottish Green Party.
Bill Butler is a Scottish Labour Co-operative Councillor. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Anniesland from a by-election in 2000 until losing his seat in the 2011 election.
Glasgow North East is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was first contested at the 2005 general election. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Maureen Burke of the Labour Party who gained the seat from Scottish National Party's Anne McLaughlin at the 2024 general election.
Glasgow Cathcart is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),being one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Glasgow Anniesland is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It is one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Glasgow Pollok is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),electing one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the First Past the Post method of election. It is currently represented by Humza Yousaf,a member of the Scottish National Party who served as the First Minister of Scotland from March 2023 until May 2024. He has held the seat for the party since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.
Glasgow Kelvin is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),being one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Glasgow Maryhill was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. However,it was also one of ten constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to ten constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Glasgow Shettleston is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),being one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Glasgow Springburn was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. From the 2011 election,the constituency was abolished and subsumed into a larger Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn seat.
Elections to Glasgow City Council were held on 3 May 2007,the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 21 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation. The new wards replaced 79 single-member wards which used the plurality system of election. It also saw the election of Glasgow's first councillors for the Scottish Greens and for Solidarity.
The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday,5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.
Robert Joseph "Bob" Doris is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election,having previously served as an MSP for Glasgow from 2007 to 2016.
William Kidd is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician,and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Anniesland constituency since 2011,having previously represented the Glasgow region from 2007 to 2011.
Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),being one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Glasgow Provan is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),being one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Glasgow Southside is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood),being one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole. The seat is currently held by Nicola Sturgeon who was First Minister of Scotland from 2014 to 2023,who has held it for the Scottish National Party since the seat was created for 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
Anne Margaret McTaggart is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician,and a Glasgow city councillor. She was previously a Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region from 2011 to 2016.
The city of Glasgow,located in Scotland,UK,is represented in both the Westminster Parliament in London,and the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood,Edinburgh. At Westminster,it is represented by six Members of Parliament (MPs),all elected to represent individual constituencies at least once every five years,using the first-past-the-post system of voting. In Holyrood,Glasgow is represented by sixteen MSPs,nine of whom are elected to represent individual constituencies once every five years using first-past-the-post,and seven of whom are elected as additional members,through proportional representation.
Elections to Glasgow City Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections,it was held using single transferable vote (STV) –a form of proportional representation –in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
