Glasgow Shettleston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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

Glasgow Shettleston
burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Glasgow Shettleston shown within the Glasgow electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	1999
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	John Mason
Council area	Glasgow City

Glasgow Shettleston is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

Electoral region

The other eight constituencies of the Glasgow region are Glasgow Anniesland, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Provan, Glasgow Southside and Rutherglen.

The region covers the Glasgow City council area and a north-western portion of the South Lanarkshire council area.

Constituency boundaries

The Glasgow Shettleston 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 into constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, the Boundary Commission for Scotland have recommended a modified Glasgow Shettleston constituency. The electoral wards used to create the newly formed Shettleston are:

In full: Calton, Shettleston
In part: Baillieston (shared with Glasgow Provan)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
1999	Frank McAveety	Labour
2003
2007
2011	John Mason	Scottish National Party
2016	John Mason	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	John Mason^[1]	14,198	56.0	+8.2
	Labour	Thomas Rannachan^[2]	6,875	27.1	-17.9
	Conservative	Thomas Kerr^[3]	3,151	12.4	+6.9
	TUSC	Jamie Cocozza	583	2.3	+2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Giovanni Caccavello	568	2.2	+0.5
Majority			7,323	28.9
Turnout			25,375	43.7
	SNP hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	John Mason	10,128	47.8	+17.4
	Labour	Frank McAveety	9,542	45.0	-7.8
	Conservative	David Wilson	1,163	5.5	-2.0
	Liberal Democrats	Ruaraidh Dobson	371	1.7	-4.6
Majority			586	2.8
Turnout			21,204	37.7
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	12.6%

Liberal Democrats gained under 5% of the poll and thus lost their deposit

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Votes	%
	Labour	9,967	52.8
	SNP	5,727	30.3
	Conservative	1,410	7.5
	Liberal Democrats	1,203	6.4
	Others	566	3.0
Majority		4,240	22.5
	Labour hold	Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Frank McAveety	7,574	51.2	-5.4
	SNP	John McLaughlin	4,693	31.7	+13.5
	Liberal Democrats	Ross Renton	1,182	8.0	+3.3
	Conservative	William McNair	946	6.4	+0.5
	Scottish Christian	Bob Graham	406	2.7	+2.7
Majority			2,881	19.5
Rejected ballots			2,035		{{{change}}}
Turnout			14,801	33.4	-2.0
	Labour hold		Swing	9.5

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Frank McAveety	9,365	56.60	+2.65
	SNP	Jim Byrne	3,018	18.24	-9.09
	Scottish Socialist	Rosie Kane	2,403	14.52	+6.53
	Conservative	Dorothy Luckhurst	982	5.93	-0.21
	Liberal Democrats	Lewis Hutton	779	4.71	+0.12
Majority			6,347	38.36	+11.73
Turnout			16,547	35.41	-5.17
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Frank McAveety	11,078	53.95	N/A
	SNP	Jim Byrne	5,611	27.33	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Rosie Kane	1,640	7.99	N/A
	Conservative	Colin Bain	1,260	6.14	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Laurence Clarke	943	4.59	N/A
Majority			5,467	26.62	N/A
Turnout			20,532	42.78	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Notes

↑ "Shettleston SNP (@Shettleston_SNP)". Twitter. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
↑ "ShettlestonLabour on Twitter: ".@ThomasRannachan selected by local party members to fight #Shettleston seat for @scottishlabour #VoteLabour https://t.co/ycfjBIzd9s"". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2016-08-10. External link in |title= (help)
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