Glasgow City Council is the local government authority for Glasgow City council area,Scotland. In its modern form it was created in 1996. Glasgow was formerly governed by a corporation,also known as the town council,from the granting of its first burgh charter in the 1170s until 1975. From 1975 until 1996 the city was governed by City of Glasgow District Council,a lower-tier authority within the Strathclyde region.
Local government in Scotland comprises thirty-two local authorities,commonly referred to as councils. Each council provides public services,including education,social care,waste management,libraries and planning. Councils receive the majority of their funding from the Scottish Government,but operate independently and are accountable to their local electorates. Councils raise additional income via the Council Tax,a locally variable domestic property tax,and Business rates,a non-domestic property tax.
The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that created the current local government structure of 32 unitary authorities covering the whole of Scotland.
Lesley Hinds is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh,Scotland from 2003 to 2007.
Liz Cameron is a former Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Alexander Francis Mosson is a Scottish Labour Party politician and a former Lord Provost of Glasgow. He has also represented Anderston as a councillor and served as an official of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
Myer Galpern,Baron Galpern,DL was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
John Ross Letford MBE is a Scottish politician who served as the Lord Provost of Dundee,as well as a councillor in his local ward of Lochee,until May 2012. His eleven years as Lord Provost made him the longest serving civic head in the United Kingdom since the nineteenth century. He currently resides in the Charleston area of the city.
Robert Rickaby Winter is a Scottish former politician who was Lord Provost of Glasgow from 2007 until 2012.
Gordon Matheson CBE is a former Scottish Labour Party politician and a former leader of Glasgow City Council.
Anderston/City/Yorkhill is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Created as Anderston/City in 2007,it returned four council members,using the single transferable vote system. The same criteria applied in 2012. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election,the boundaries were changed,the ward slightly decreased in size and was renamed Anderston/City/Yorkhill,still returning four councillors.
The politics of Glasgow,Scotland's largest city by population,are expressed in the deliberations and decisions of Glasgow City Council,in elections to the council,the Scottish Parliament and the UK Parliament.
Sadie Docherty is a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 2012 to 2017.
Elections to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow were held on Tuesday 3 November 1896,alongside municipal elections across Scotland,and the wider British local elections.
Eva Bolander is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She sits as a councillor for the Anderston/City/Yorkhill ward,having first been elected in a by-election in 2015.
Sir Peter Lowrie Meldrum was a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Frank Ross is a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from April 2017 until May 2022. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he has been a councillor for the Corstorphine/Murrayfield ward in the City of Edinburgh Council since 2012.
Helen W. Wright has served as a councillor in Dundee since 1980. In November 2023,Wright won the Lifetime Legend Award in recognition of her work and achievements over many years. She was the only female member of the 25-member ruling Labour administration when she won the Fairmuir seat in 1980 and was the first female Lord Provost of Dundee when elected to that post in 1999. Wright was a trade union national official in the 1970s,chair of the UK-wide local government women’s committee (NALGWC),a sitting magistrate for 18 years,prison visitor,NHS health board member,Community Justice Authority Regional and Scottish chair,charity worker and holder of senior local government positions and roles. Helen Wright currently holds various positions in Dundee City Council,is a Bailie,a board member of various organisations,and carries out regular voluntary and charity work.
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.
