West Dunbartonshire is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. The area lies to the north-west of the Glasgow City council area and contains many of Glasgow's commuter towns and villages. West Dunbartonshire also borders Argyll and Bute,East Dunbartonshire,Renfrewshire and Stirling.
East Dunbartonshire is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders Glasgow City Council Area to the south,North Lanarkshire to the east,Stirling to the north,and West Dunbartonshire to the west. East Dunbartonshire contains many of the suburbs in the north of Greater Glasgow,including Bearsden,Milngavie,Bishopbriggs,Kirkintilloch,Lenzie,Twechar,Milton of Campsie,Balmore,and Torrance,as well as some other of Glasgow's commuter towns and villages. The council area covers parts of the historic counties of Dunbartonshire,Lanarkshire,and Stirlingshire.
Alan Reid is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician who has been a councillor in the East Dunbartonshire ward of Bearsden North since 2022.
Margaret Patricia Curran is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She served in the British House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow East from 2010 to 2015 and was Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2011 until 2015. She was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Baillieston from 1999 to 2011,and held a number of posts within the Scottish Executive,including Minister for Parliamentary Business,Minister for Social Justice and Minister for Communities. She was announced to receive a peerage on December 20th 2024.
East Dunbartonshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The seat is possibly best known for formerly being the constituency of Jo Swinson,the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats who was defeated at the 2019 general election.
West Dunbartonshire is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election and covers the same area as the county of West Dunbartonshire.
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 Scottish Liberal Democrats is a liberal,federalist political party in Scotland,part of UK Liberal Democrats. The party holds 4 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 6 of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons.
John MacKenzie Nicolson is a Scottish journalist,broadcaster and Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.
Ian Murray is a Scottish politician who has served as Secretary of State for Scotland since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South since 2010. He previously served as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2020 to 2024.
Gemma Doyle is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dunbartonshire from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties,she has worked in public affairs since her departure from Parliament.
The 2011 Inverclyde by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Inverclyde on 30 June 2011. It was triggered by the death of the incumbent Labour MP,David Cairns on 9 May 2011 of acute pancreatitis.
Lisa Cameron is a Scottish politician and former consultant clinical psychologist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Kilbride,Strathaven and Lesmahagow from winning the seat at the 2015 general election until standing down at the 2024 general election. First elected for the Scottish National Party (SNP),she was re-elected for that party in 2017 and 2019,before she crossed the floor to the Scottish Conservatives in October 2023.
Martin John Docherty-Hughes is a Scottish National Party politician. He was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dunbartonshire from 2015 until his defeat in 2024. He has also served as SNP Defence Spokesperson from 2023 to 2024.
Amy Callaghan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the member of parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire from 2019 until 2024 when the seat was abolished and she came second in the newly established seat of Mid Dunbartonshire. She unseated the then Liberal Democrat leader,Jo Swinson,with a narrow majority of 149 votes or 0.3%,overturning her majority of 5,339 votes two years earlier. She was SNP Health spokesperson since and sat on the Health and Social Care Select Committee during her time in Parliament.
James Stewart Murray is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing North since 2019. He has served as Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury since 9 July 2024. He was Deputy Mayor of London for Housing from 2016 to 2019.
Meghan Gallacher is a British politician who has served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives from 2022 to 2024. She has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2021. Gallacher was a councillor for the Motherwell West ward from 2017 to 2022,serving as the Conservatives party's group leader in the North Lanarkshire Council.
Paul Francis O'Kane is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region since 2021.
The East Dunbartonshire Council election of 2022 was held on 5 May 2022,the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system,a form of proportional representation used since the 2007 election and according to the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.
Lillian Jones is a Scottish Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun since 2024. Prior to being elected as an MP in July 2024,Jones served as a councillor for the Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse ward within East Ayrshire Council from 3 May 2012 until her resignation on 2 September 2024,as well as working within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
