Glasgow Baillieston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Baillieston
Glasgow Baillieston
Former burgh Council area

Glasgow Baillieston was a

plurality (first past the post) method of election. The seat was represented by Labour's Margaret Curran

from the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 until her retirement in 2011.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the constituency was abolished. The Baillieston electoral ward was divided between Provan and Shettleston seats.

Electoral region

Constituency boundaries

The current Glasgow Baillieston constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in

House of Commons

) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.

The Holyrood constituency was entirely within the Glasgow City council area, on the area's eastern boundary. It was east of the Shettleston and Springburn constituencies and north of the Rutherglen constituency. Shettleston and Springburn were also entirely within the city area. Rutherglen straddles the boundary between the Glasgow City and South Lanarkshire council areas.^[1]

Boundary review

Following their First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament the Boundary Commission for Scotland recommended the abolition of the Baillieston constituency. The Garrowhill, Bailliston, Swinton, and Barlanark areas of the Baillieston electoral area were combined with Calton and Shettleston, to form an enlarged Glasgow Shettleston constituency, whilst the East Centre, North East, and remaining areas of the Baillieston ward form a newly created Glasgow Provan constituency.

Constituency profile

The constituency included the areas of

Ballieston, Mount Vernon, Easterhouse, Barlanark and Gartloch

. It is industrial in character and has high levels of unemployment, one-parent families and drug abuse.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1999	Margaret Curran	Labour
	2011	Constituency abolished; see Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Shettleston

Election results

2007 Scottish Parliament election: Glasgow Ballieston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Curran	9,141	52.9	0.0
	SNP	Lachlan McNeill	5,207	30.2	+11.2
	Conservative	Richard Sullivan	1,276	7.4	-0.7
	Liberal Democrats	David Jackson	1,060	6.1	-0.5
	Scottish Christian	George Hargreaves	588	3.4	New
Majority			3,934	22.7	-10.8
Rejected ballots			1,850
Turnout			17,272	38.9	-0.5
	Labour hold		Swing

2003 Scottish Parliament election: Glasgow Ballieston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Curran	9,657	52.9	+5.3
	SNP	Lachlan McNeill	3,479	19.0	-15.7
	Scottish Socialist	Jim McVicar	2,461	13.5	+5.6
	Conservative	Janette McAlpine	1,472	8.1	+1.7
	Liberal Democrats	David Jackson	1,201	6.6	+3.2
Majority			6,178	33.9	+21.0
Turnout			18,270	39.4
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.2

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1999 Scottish Parliament election: Glasgow Ballieston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Curran	11,289	47.61	*N/A*
	SNP	Dorothy Grace Elder	8,217	34.66	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Jim McVicar	1,864	7.86	N/A
	Conservative	Dr Kate Pickering	1,526	6.44	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Fryer	813	3.43	N/A
Majority			3,072	12.95	N/A
Turnout			23,709		N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Notes

^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived September 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

[1] See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived September 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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