Glasgow Baillieston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Glasgow Baillieston (UK Parliament constituency).

Glasgow Baillieston
Former burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Glasgow Baillieston shown within the Glasgow electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Glasgow City

Declaration of results in Glasgow Baillieston constituency in the Scottish Parliament election, 2007.

Glasgow Baillieston was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the 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 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.

The Holyrood constituency is entirely within the Glasgow City council area, on the area's eastern boundary. It is east of the Shettleston and Springburn constituencies and north of the Rutherglen constituency. Shettleston and Springburn are 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

	Member	Party
1999	Margaret Curran	Labour
2003
2007
2011	Constituency abolished; see Glasgow Provan

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: 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	N/A
Majority			3,934	22.8	-11.0
Rejected ballots			1850		{{{change}}}
Turnout			17,272	38.9	-0.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Glasgow Ballieston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Margaret Curran	9,657	52.9%	+5.2%
	SNP	Lachlan McNeill	3,479	19.0%	-15.6%
	Scottish Socialist	Jim McVicar	2,461	13.5%	+5.6%
	Conservative	Janette McAlpine	1,472	8.1%	+1.6%
	Liberal Democrats	David Jackson	1,201	6.6%	+3.1%
Majority			6,178	33.8%	+20.85%
Turnout			18,270	39.4%
	Labour hold		Swing	+5.2%

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: 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	James 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
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Notes

↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

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