Victoria Park (ward)

Victoria Park
Victoria Park Ward (2017) within Glasgow
View looking south down Crow Road towards the Victoria Park ward (2015)
Area	4.41 km2 (1.70 sq mi)
Population	20,950 (2015) [1]
•  Density	4,750.6/sq mi (1,834.2/km2)
Council area	Glasgow City Council
Lieutenancy area	Glasgow
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GLASGOW
Postcode district	G11, G13, G14
Dialling code	0141
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
List of places UK Scotland Glasgow

Victoria Park (Ward 12) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. ^[2] Created as Partick West in 2007 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system; ^[3] the boundaries were unchanged in 2012. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed, the ward decreased in size and population, was re-named Victoria Park and returned three members.

Boundaries

Located in the west of Glasgow, the core of the ward since its creation as Partick West in 2007 has been formed from the Broomhill, Thornwood, Jordanhill, Glasgow Harbour and Whiteinch neighbourhoods, along with a small part of Anniesland (south of Anniesland Road and west of the Argyle Line railway), and a small part of Partick (west of the Argyle/North Clyde Line railway), with the southern boundary being the River Clyde.

The 2017 changes removed all territory to the east of the railway lines: most of Partick and Partickhill, and part of Anniesland south of Great Western Road, which were added to a new Partick East/Kelvindale ward. With little of Partick now in the boundaries, a new name was adopted from Victoria Park which had been in part of the territory since its creation.

The ethnic makeup of the ward using the 2011 census population statistics was:

• 91.5% White Scottish / British / Irish / Other
• 6.3% Asian
• 1% Black (mainly African)
• 1.2% Mixed / Other Ethnic Group

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Aileen Colleran (Labour)		Christopher Mason (Liberal Democrats)		Kenny McLean (SNP)		Stuart Clay (Green)
2012 [4]			Feargal Dalton (SNP)	Martin Bartos (Green)
2017 [5]	Maggie McTernan (Labour)			Ade Aibinu (Conservative)	3 seats
2022 [6]	Eunis Jassemi (Labour)			Lana Reid-McConnell (Green)

Election results

2022

Victoria Park – 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Labour	Eunis Jassemi	28.4	2,447
	SNP	Feargal Dalton (incumbent)	26.6	2,291
	Scottish Green	Lana Reid-McConnell	23.4	2,016	2,102	2,200
	Conservative	Ade Aibinu (incumbent)	15.8	1,364	1,419	1,422
	Liberal Democrats	James Douglas Speirs	4.2	358	445	453
	Alba	Mahmood Ullah	1.6	141	145	153
Electorate: 17,512  Valid: 8,617  Spoilt: 84  Quota: 2,155  Turnout: 49.7%

Source: ^{[7] [8]}

2017

Victoria Park – 3 seats ^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Feargal Dalton *	26.39%	2,248
	Conservative	Ade Aibinu	23.69%	2,018	2,019	2,022	2,148
	Labour	Maggie McTernan	19.97%	1,701	1,706	1,722	1,872	1,879	1,977	3,001
	Scottish Green	Allan Faulds	13.50%	1,150	1,172	1,190	1,336	1,339	1,937
	SNP	Deirdre Parkinson	10.05%	856	936	941	961	962
	Liberal Democrats	James Douglas Speirs	5.78%	492	494	497
	TUSC	Matt McGrath	0.61%	52	52
Electorate: 17,660  Valid: 8,517  Spoilt: 117  Quota: 2,130  Turnout: 48.9%

* = Sitting Councillor for Partick West ward.

2012

Partick West – 4 seats ^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Labour	Aileen Colleran (incumbent) [a]	19.97%	1,884	1,885	1,890
	Scottish Green	Martin Bartos	14.71%	1,388	1,388	1,392	1,392	1,395	1,409	1,418	1,478	1,662	1,946
	SNP	Feargal Dalton	18.63%	1,757	1,757	1,758	1,758	1,759	1,760	1,767	1,776	1,813	1,913
	SNP	Kenny McLean (incumbent)	14.87%	1,403	1,403	1,403	1,403	1,405	1,410	1,421	1,434	1,479	1,538	1,553	1,575	1,813
	Labour	Michael Shanks	12.13%	1,144	1,144	1,147	1,149	1,153	1,156	1,167	1,190	1,258	1,380	1,394	1,395
	Conservative	John Anderson	10.33%	974	977	979	979	995	1,017	1,041	1,041	1,161
	Liberal Democrats	James Paris	5.54%	523	525	526	526	532	534	540	540
	Scottish Socialist	Andrew Gray	1.19%	112	112	113	113	113	113	114
	Scottish Christian	Donald Williamson	0.96%	91	91	91	91	95	102
	UKIP	Stuart Maskell	0.68%	64	65	65	65	77
	Scottish Unionist	Catherine Findlay	0.43%	41	59	60	60
	Glasgow First	Nicholas Black	0.29%	27	27
	Scottish Unionist	Robert Findlay	0.27%	25
Electorate: 25,686  Valid: 9,433  Spoilt: 198  Quota: 1,887  Turnout: 9,631 (37.50%)

1. On 2 October 2014, Colleran resigned from Scottish Labour amid fallout from that year's Scottish independence referendum. She continued to sit on the council as an independent. ^[10]

2007

2007 Council election: Partick West ^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Kenny McLean	22.06	2,811
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Mason [a]	17.73	2,259	2,300	2,325	2,354	2,411	2,910
	Labour	Aileen Colleran [b]	16.47	2,099	2,115	2,128	2,150	2,199	2,275	2,316
	Scottish Green	Stuart Clay	12.51	1,594	1,652	1,744	1,789	1,963	2,175	2,304
	Labour	Irene Graham [c]	13.33	1,699	1,716	1,732	1,741	1,785	1,866	1,920
	Conservative	Richard Alan Sullivan	11.02	1,404	1,419	1,419	1,529
	Solidarity	Jimmy Ross	2.93	373	402	465	472
	Scottish Unionist	George Aytoun Atkinson	2.08	265	268	271
	Scottish Socialist	Andrew Gray	1.88	240	253
Electorate: 23,574  Valid: 12,744  Spoilt: 197  Quota: 2,549  Turnout: 54.90%

1. Outgoing councillor for Jordanhill single-member ward.
2. Outgoing councillor for Partick single-member ward.
3. Outgoing councillor for Victoria Park single-member ward.

See also

• Wards of Glasgow

References

1. City Ward Factsheets 2017: Ward 12 - Victoria Park, Glasgow City Council
2. "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
3. Teale, Andrew (27 December 2008). "Local Election Results 2007 (Glasgow)" (PDF). Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
4. "Election Results 2012". glasgow.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012.
5. "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
6. "Notice of election agents". Glasgow City Council. Retrieved 4 April 2022.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
7. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 12 Victoria Park". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
8. "Candidate votes per stage Ward 12 Victoria Park". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
9. "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
10. "Labour council chief quits amid indyref fallout". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 17 June 2021.

External links

• Listed Buildings in Victoria Park Ward, Glasgow City at British Listed Buildings