East Renfrewshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It was formed in 1996,as a successor to the Eastwood district of the Strathclyde region. The northeastern part of the council area is close to Glasgow and many of the council area's northern settlements fall into the Greater Glasgow urban area.
Renfrewshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
John McAllion is a campaigner for the Scottish Socialist Party,as well as a former Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP),Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP),and convenor of Tayside Regional Council. He is also convener of the Scottish Fairtrade Forum.
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.
Barrhead is a town in East Renfrewshire,Scotland,thirteen kilometres (8 mi) southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes. At the 2011 census its population was 17,268.
Newton Mearns is a suburban town and the largest settlement in East Renfrewshire,Scotland. It lies 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Glasgow City Centre on the main road to Ayrshire,410 feet (125 m) above sea level. It has a population of approximately 26,993,stretching from Whitecraigs and Kirkhill in the northeast to Maidenhill in the southeast,to Westacres and Greenlaw in the west and Capelrig/Patterton in the northwest.
Kenneth Donald Macintosh is a Scottish politician who served as the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2016 to 2021. Elected as a member of Scottish Labour,he suspended his party membership on becoming Presiding Officer. Macintosh was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2021,representing the Eastwood constituency from 1999 to 2016,and then the West Scotland region from 2016 to 2021.
Hugh Henry is a former Scottish Labour Party politician. He was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Renfrewshire South,formerly Paisley South,from 1999 to 2016.
Eastwood was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election.
Eastwood is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of East Renfrewshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is also one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the ten constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Neilston is a village and parish in East Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is in the Levern Valley,two miles southwest of Barrhead,the last remaining town in greater Glasgow to operate trams,3+3⁄4 miles south of Paisley,and 5+3⁄4 miles south-southwest of Renfrew,at the southwestern fringe of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. Neilston is a dormitory village with a resident population of just over 5,000 people.
David Jackson Carlaw is a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from February to July 2020,having acted in the position since August 2019. He previously served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 2011 to 2019. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 2007,first as an additional member for the West Scotland region and later for the Eastwood constituency since 2016.
St Luke's High School is a school in the Auchenback area of Barrhead,East Renfrewshire,in the Greater Glasgow area of Scotland. The school focuses on its Catholic ethos in teaching and its close relationship with the communities of Barrhead and Neilston,also rarely serving areas further afield including Paisley,Pollok,Glenburn and Uplawmoor.
Renfrewshire South is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering parts of the council areas of Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It forms one of ten constituencies in the West Scotland electoral region,which also elects seven additional members to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Neil James Bibby is a Scottish Labour co-operative politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region since 2011.
George James Adam is a Scottish politician who served as the Minister for Parliamentary Business from 2021 to 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Paisley since 2011.
Kirsten Frances Oswald is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician first elected as the Member of the UK Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire in 2015;she was unseated at the 2017 snap election but subsequently re-elected at the 2019 election. She served as the deputy leader of the SNP parliamentary party from 2020 to 2022,as well as Chairman and Business Convener of the Scottish National Party from 2018 to 2023.
The 2015 Scottish Labour Party leadership election was formally triggered on 16 May 2015 by the resignation of Jim Murphy as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party,which took effect on 13 June 2015,following the party's defeat at the 2015 general election. A new leader and deputy leader would be chosen following the resignations of Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale. In the meantime,former Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray took over as acting leader. On 15 August,Dugdale was elected to lead the party,while Alex Rowley was chosen to become her deputy.
The 2017 East Renfrewshire Council elections took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of East Renfrewshire Council.
The 2022 East Renfrewshire Council election took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 5 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,with 18 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members,using the STV electoral system.
