Glasgow_Anniesland_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)
Glasgow Anniesland (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Scottish Parliament constituency
Glasgow Anniesland (Gaelic: Glaschu Fearann Anna) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It is one of eight constituencies within the Glasgow City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
| Glasgow Anniesland | |
|---|---|
| Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Glasgow Anniesland shown within the Glasgow electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Population | 75,114 (2019)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1999 |
| Party | Scottish National Party |
| MSP | Bill Kidd |
| Council area | Glasgow City |
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In the first election to the Scottish Parliament the seat was won for Labour by Donald Dewar who subsequently became the first First Minister of Scotland. Since the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the MSP has been Bill Kidd of the Scottish National Party.
The other eight constituencies of the Glasgow region are: Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Provan, Glasgow Shettleston, Glasgow Southside and Rutherglen.
The region covers the Glasgow City council area and a north-western portion of the South Lanarkshire council area.
The Glasgow Anniesland constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.
Boundary review
Following their First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament the Boundary Commission for Scotland had recommended alterations to the existing Anniesland constituency boundaries.
The electoral wards used to create the newly formed Anniesland are:
- In full: Garscadden/Scotstounhill, Drumchapel/Anniesland
- In part: Partick West (shared with neighbouring Glasgow Kelvin)
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Donald Dewar | Labour | |
| 2000 | Bill Butler | ||
| 2011 | Bill Kidd | SNP | |
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Bill Kidd[lower-alpha 1] | 17,501 | 52.8 |  1.1 |
13,904 | 41.74 |  1.3 | |
| Labour Co-op | Eva Murray[lower-alpha 2] | 10,913 | 32.9 | 2.4 |
8,167 | 24.52 | 0.3 | |
| Conservative | Ade Aibinu | 3,688 | 11.1 | 2.9 |
4,618 | 13.86 | 0.2 | |
| Scottish Green | 3,691 | 11.08 | 1.6 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Mark Simons | 1,063 | 3.2 | 0.6 |
903 | 2.71 | 0.1 | |
| Alba | 634 | 1.90 | New | |||||
| All for Unity | 280 | 0.84 | New | |||||
| Independent Green Voice | 242 | 0.73 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 218 | 0.65 | New | |||||
| Women's Equality | 115 | 0.35 | 0.5 | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 103 | 0.31 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 82 | 0.25 | New | |||||
| Libertarian | 62 | 0.19 | New | |||||
| Reform UK | 61 | 0.18 | New | |||||
| Communist | 52 | 0.16 | New | |||||
| TUSC | 47 | 0.14 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 40 | 0.12 | 1.7 | |||||
| Independent | Craig Ross | 27 | 0.08 | New | ||||
| SDP | 19 | 0.06 | New | |||||
| Independent | Daniel Donaldson | 16 | 0.05 | New | ||||
| Renew | 16 | 0.05 | New | |||||
| Reclaim | 15 | 0.05 | New | |||||
| Majority | 6,588 | 19.9 | 1.3 |
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| Valid Votes | 33,165 | 33,312 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 218 | 106 | ||||||
| Turnout | 33,383 | 58.6 | 8.2 |
33,418 | 58.7 | 8.2 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
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2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Bill Kidd[lower-alpha 1] | 15,007 | 51.7 | 8.5 |
12,548 | 43.0 | 3.3 | |
| Labour | Bill Butler | 8,854 | 30.5 | 12.7 |
7,079 | 24.3 | 9.5 | |
| Conservative | Adam Tomkins[lower-alpha 2] | 4,057 | 14.0 | 5.6 |
4,107 | 14.1 | 6.4 | |
| Scottish Green | 2,778 | 9.5 | 3.3 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | James Speirs | 1,098 | 3.8 | 0.4 |
748 | 2.6 | 0.3 | |
| UKIP | 523 | 1.8 | 1.4 | |||||
| A Better Britain - Unionist Party | 279 | 1.0 | New | |||||
| Solidarity | 265 | 0.9 | New | |||||
| Women's Equality | 233 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 230 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |||||
| Animal Welfare | 191 | 0.7 | New | |||||
| RISE | 172 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Independent | Andrew McCullagh | 29 | 0.1 | New | ||||
| Majority | 6,153 | 21.2 | 21.2 |
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| Valid Votes | 29,016 | 29,182 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 185 | 58 | ||||||
| Turnout | 29,201 | 50.4 | 7.0 |
29,240 | 50.5 | 7.0 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 10.4 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Bill Kidd[lower-alpha 1] | 10,329 | 43.19 | N/A | 9,513 | 39.7 | N/A | |
| Labour | Bill Butler[lower-alpha 2] | 10,322 | 43.16 | N/A | 8,109 | 33.8 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Matthew Smith | 2,011 | 8.4 | N/A | 1,850 | 7.7 | N/A | |
| Scottish Green | 1,489 | 6.2 | N/A | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul McGarry | 1,000 | 4.2 | N/A | 701 | 2.9 | N/A | |
| Respect | 697 | 2.9 | N/A | |||||
| All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 386 | 1.6 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 257 | 1.1 | N/A | |||||
| Communist | Marc Livingstone | 256 | 1.1 | N/A | ||||
| Scottish Christian | 246 | 1.0 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 223 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 173 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Unionist | 136 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
| UKIP | 91 | 0.4 | N/A | |||||
| Pirate | 68 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Homeland Party | 23 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | Caroline Johnstone | 27 | 0.1 | N/A | ||||
| Majority | 7 | 0.03 | N/A | |||||
| Valid Votes | 23,918 | 23,989 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 105 | 91 | ||||||
| Turnout | 24,023 | 43.4 | N/A | 24,080 | 43.5 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new boundaries) | ||||||||
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2000s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Bill Butler | 10,483 | 47.4 | +1.7 | |
| SNP | Bill Kidd | 6,177 | 27.9 | +10.3 | |
| Conservative | Bill Aitken | 3,154 | 14.2 | +0.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Danica Gilland | 2,325 | 10.5 | ±0.0 | |
| Majority | 4,306 | 19.5 | -8.6 | ||
| Rejected ballots | 1,766 | 3.6 | |||
| Turnout | 22,139 | 45.8 | +2.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -4.4 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Bill Butler | 10,141 | 45.7 | −13.1 | |
| SNP | Bill Kidd | 3,186 | 17.6 | −2.6 | |
| Conservative | William Aitken | 3,032 | 13.7 | +3.1 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Charlie McCarthy | 2,620 | 11.8 | +8.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Iain Brown | 2,330 | 10.5 | +4.2 | |
| Majority | 6,253 | 28.1 | −10.5 | ||
| Turnout | 22,165 | 43.6 | −8.3 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Bill Butler | 9,838 | 48.7 | −10.1 | |
| SNP | Tom Chalmers | 4,462 | 22.1 | +1.9 | |
| Conservative | Kate Pickering | 2,148 | 10.6 | ±0.0 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Rosie Kane | 1,429 | 7.0 | +3.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Judith Fryer | 1,384 | 6.8 | +0.5 | |
| Scottish Green | Alistair Whitelaw | 662 | 3.3 | New | |
| Socialist Labour | Murdo Ritchie | 298 | 1.5 | +1.0 | |
| Majority | 5,376 | 26.6 | −12.0 | ||
| Turnout | 20,211 | 38.3 | -13.6 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
1990s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Donald Dewar | 16,749 | 58.8 | ||
| SNP | Kaukab Stewart | 5,756 | 20.2 | ||
| Conservative | Bill Aitken | 3,032 | 10.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Iain Brown | 1,804 | 6.3 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | Ann Lynch | 1,000 | 3.5 | ||
| Socialist Labour | Edward Boyd | 139 | 0.5 | ||
| Majority | 10,993 | 38.6 | |||
| Turnout | 28,480 | 51.9 | |||
| Labour win (new seat) | |||||
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- "Scottish Results". Glasgow City Council. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
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- "Glasgow Anniesland - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
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- "Glasgow Anniesland constituency map" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
| New title | Constituency represented by the First Minister 1999 – 2000 |
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