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.
Liz Cameron is a former Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Frank McAveety is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of Glasgow City Council from 2015 to 2017. He has been a councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow. He was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Shettleston constituency from 1999 to 2011.
South Lanarkshire Council is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton,has 16,000 employees,and an annual budget of almost £1bn. The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas,market towns such as Lanark,Strathaven and Carluke,the urban burghs of Rutherglen,Cambuslang,and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town. The area was formed in 1996 from the areas of Clydesdale,Hamilton and East Kilbride districts,and some outer areas of Glasgow district;all were previously within the Strathclyde region from 1975 but in historic Lanarkshire prior to that.
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.
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.
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.
Elections to Clackmannanshire Council took place on 5 May 2022,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.
