Glasgow North East (UK Parliament constituency)

































Glasgow North East

Burgh constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map
Boundary of Glasgow North East in Scotland.

Subdivisions of Scotland
City of Glasgow
Current constituency
Created
2005
Member of parliament
Paul Sweeney (Scottish Labour and Co-operative Party)
Created from
Glasgow Springburn
Glasgow Maryhill
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency
Scotland

Glasgow North East is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). It was first contested at the 2005 general election. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Paul Sweeney of the Scottish Labour and Co-operative Party, who won his seat from the SNP's Anne McLaughlin at the 2017 snap general election with a narrow majority of 242 votes.


From the seat's creation until 2009, the constituency was represented by Michael Martin, previously MP for Glasgow Springburn from 1979. Martin was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in October 2000, but in May 2009 he announced that he would be resigning as Speaker on 21 June 2009 because of his perceived role in the MPs' expenses controversy. He was the first Speaker in 300 years to be forced out of office by a motion of no confidence.[1] He also resigned as an MP the following day, resulting in a by-election on 12 November 2009, which was won by Willie Bain of the Labour Party with 59% of the vote; Bain retained the seat the following year at the 2010 UK general election, but was defeated by Anne McLaughlin of the SNP in 2015.




Contents






  • 1 Boundaries


  • 2 Constituency profile


    • 2.1 Voting pattern




  • 3 Members of Parliament


  • 4 Election results


    • 4.1 Elections in the 2010s


    • 4.2 Elections in the 2000s




  • 5 See also


  • 6 Notes and references





Boundaries


The Glasgow City wards of Ashfield, Carntyne, Cowlairs, Dennistoun, Gartcraig, Keppochhill, Milnbank, Milton, Robroyston, Royston, Springburn, and Wallacewell.


Glasgow North East is one of seven constituencies covering the Glasgow City council area. All are entirely within the council area.


Prior to the 2005 general election, the city area was covered by ten constituencies, two of which straddled the boundaries of other council areas. The North East constituency includes most of the former Glasgow Springburn constituency and a small part of the former Glasgow Maryhill constituency.[2]



Constituency profile


The population of the constituency was 88,156 at the time of the 2011 UK Census. On commonly used measures like unemployment rate, people eligible for free school meals and educational attainment, Glasgow North East is one of the most deprived constituencies in the United Kingdom. In addition, some parts of the constituency have significant gang-related violence and drug-related crime. These issues are significant across the constituency, but some areas have particular problems: heroin addiction in Possilpark, difficult to let and maintain, system-built tower blocks at Sighthill and Red Road, the latter once known as the tallest public housing in Europe, the older housing schemes in Springburn and the post-war (1949) scheme in Milton, with housing but few amenities and itself the product of earlier attempts at slum clearance. However, the innermost area of Dennistoun retains the original Victorian tenement grid streets. Dennistoun has seen some gentrification, and is becoming popular with students and young professionals, while to the north there have been some new housing developments on the outskirts of Glasgow at Robroyston.



Voting pattern


Glasgow North East and its predecessor constituencies had been represented by MPs from the Labour Party with large majorities from the 1935 general election until 2015, when the seat was gained by the SNP during their landslide victory on the largest swing recorded at the general election that year of 39.3% from Labour to SNP. At the following election held just two years later, the seat was regained by Labour's Paul Sweeney with a narrow majority of 242 votes (0.7%).


According to the British Election Study, it is the most left-wing seat in the country.[3]


It had the lowest turnout of any seat at the 2017 UK general election.



Members of Parliament





































Election Member[4]
Party Notes


2005

Michael Martin

Speaker
Previously MP for Glasgow Springburn from 1979. Resigned the Speakership and from Parliament in 2009


2009 by-election

Willie Bain

Labour



2015

Anne McLaughlin

SNP



2017

Paul Sweeney

Labour Co-op



Election results



Elections in the 2010s

































































General Election 2017: Glasgow North East[5]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


Labour Co-op

Paul Sweeney

13,637

42.9

+9.2


SNP

Anne McLaughlin
13,395
42.2
-15.9


Conservative
Jack Wylie
4,106
12.9
+8.2


Liberal Democrat
Daniel Donaldson
637
2.0
+1.2
Majority
242
0.7
-25.1

Turnout
31,775
53.0
-3.8


Labour Co-op gain from SNP

Swing
+12.6


























































































General Election 2015: Glasgow North East[6][7]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


SNP

Anne McLaughlin
21,976
58.1
+43.9


Labour

Willie Bain
12,754
33.7
-34.7


Conservative

Annie Wells
1,769
4.7
-0.7


Scottish Green
Zara Kitson[8]
615
1.6
n/a


Liberal Democrat
Eileen Baxendale[9]
300
0.8
-6.9


CISTA
Geoff Johnson
225
0.6
n/a


TUSC
Jamie Cocozza[10]
218
0.6
-0.1
Majority
9,222
24.4


Turnout
37,857
56.8
+7.7


SNP gain from Labour

Swing
39.31


1 As noted at the top of the article, this was the largest swing in the 2015 SNP Landslide.

































































































General Election 2010: Glasgow North East[11][12][13]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


Labour

Willie Bain
20,100
68.3

N/A


SNP
Billy McAllister
4,158
14.1
-3.6


Liberal Democrat
Eileen Baxendale
2,262
7.7

N/A


Conservative

Ruth Davidson
1,569
5.3

N/A


BNP
Walter Hamilton
798
2.7
-0.5


TUSC
Graham Campbell
187
0.6

N/A


Scottish Socialist

Kevin McVey
179
0.6
-4.3


Socialist Labour
Jim Berrington
156
0.5
-13.7
Majority
15,942
54.2
+18.5

Turnout
29,409
49.1
+3.3


Labour gain from Speaker

Swing
+7.4



Elections in the 2000s


A by-election was held in November 2009, caused by the resignation of former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin. Labour won fairly comfortably, compared to the surprising SNP win in the neighbouring constituency of Glasgow East in the previous year. The turnout was the lowest in Scottish history.[14]









































































































































Glasgow North East by-election, 2009
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


Labour

Willie Bain
12,231
59.4

N/A


SNP
David Kerr
4,120
20.0
+2.3


Conservative

Ruth Davidson
1,075
5.2

N/A


BNP
Charlie Baillie
1,013
4.9
+1.7


Solidarity

Tommy Sheridan
794
3.9

N/A


Liberal Democrat
Eileen Baxendale
474
2.3

N/A


Scottish Green
David Doherty
332
1.6

N/A


Jury Team

John Smeaton
258
1.2

N/A


Scottish Socialist

Kevin McVey
152
0.7
-4.2


No Label

Mikey Hughes
54
0.3

N/A


Socialist Labour
Louise McDaid
47
0.2
-14.0


Independent
Mev Brown
32
0.2

N/A

The Individuals Labour and Tory (TILT)
Colin Campbell
13
0.1

N/A
Majority
8,111
39.4
+3.7

Turnout
20,595
33.2
-12.6


Labour gain from Speaker

Swing


























































































General Election 2005: Glasgow North East[15]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
±


Speaker

Michael Martin 1
15,153
53.3
-13.8


SNP
John McLaughlin
5,019
17.7
-0.5


Socialist Labour
Doris Kelly
4,036
14.2

N/A


Scottish Socialist
Graham Campbell
1,402
4.9
-3.2


Scottish Unionist
Daniel Houston
1,266
4.5
+0.3


BNP
Scott McLean
920
3.2

N/A


Independent
Joe Chambers
622
2.2

N/A
Majority
10,134
35.7


Turnout
28,418
45.8
+1.9


Speaker hold

Swing
-6.6


1 Michael Martin stood as 'the Speaker seeking re-election'. The Speaker is elected by the House of Commons after each General Election.


As is conventional, Michael Martin (a member of the Labour Party when first elected Speaker) stood as Speaker of the House of Commons in the general election of 2005. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats did not stand against him. Other parties did, including the Scottish National Party (the Constitution of which requires that the party fight every seat in Scotland).


The most notable feature of the result was the relatively large vote for Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party, in an area where it had very little base. This was considered to be a result of voter confusion (and not the first recorded example of its kind). A large number of traditional Labour Party voters may have voted for the Socialist Labour Party in the absence of a named Labour Party candidate on the ballot paper.



See also


  • Politics of Glasgow


Notes and references





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  2. ^ Fifth Periodical Report Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Boundary Commission for Scotland


  3. ^ Wheeler, Brian (1 December 2014). "The strange truth about how and why we vote" – via www.bbc.co.uk.


  4. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)


  5. ^ Glasgow Young Scot, 20 Trongate (11 May 2017). "General Election 2017 - Glasgow candidates announced".


  6. ^ election resulthttp://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10527 25Aug15


  7. ^ "SNP and Tory candidates revealed". Evening Times.


  8. ^ "Seven Greens bid for city seats". Evening Times.


  9. ^ "List of selected candidates". Liberal Democrats. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.


  10. ^ http://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/320.pdf


  11. ^ "2010 election result, Glasgow North East". glasgow.gov.uk.


  12. ^ "UKPollingReport Election Guide 2010 » Glasgow North East". ukpollingreport.co.uk.


  13. ^ "Election 2010 – Glasgow North East". BBC News.


  14. ^ Johnson, Simon (13 November 2009). "Labour 'can win fourth general election after Glasgow North East'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 May 2010.


  15. ^ election resulthttp://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10527&fPst=1 31Aug15



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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Glasgow Springburn

Constituency represented by the Speaker
2005–2009
Succeeded by
Buckingham




Coordinates: 55°53′18″N 4°12′57″W / 55.88833°N 4.21583°W / 55.88833; -4.21583







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