Glasgow Anniesland (Scottish Parliament constituency)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**Glasgow Anniesland**
Scottish Parliament burgh constituency

Glasgow Anniesland shown within the Glasgow electoral region
Created:	1999
MSP:	Bill Butler
Party:	Labour
Council area:	Glasgow City (part)

Glasgow Anniesland 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 ten constituencies in the Glasgow electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

1 Electoral region
2 Constituency boundaries
3 Member of the Scottish Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also

[edit] Electoral region

The other nine constituencies of the Glasgow region are Glasgow Baillieston, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Rutherglen, Glasgow Shettleston and Glasgow Springburn.

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

[edit] Constituency boundaries

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.

The Holyrood constituency is entirely within the Glasgow City council area, on the area's north-western boundary. It is west of the Maryhill constituency and north of the Kelvin constituency, which are also entirely within the city area.

[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament

1999 - 2000 Donald Dewar, Scotland's first First Minister, who died in 2000
2000 - Bill Butler

[edit] Election results

Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: Glasgow Anniesland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bill Butler	10,141	45.75	−13.06
	Scottish National Party	Bill Kidd	3,186	17.56	−2.67
	Conservative	Cllr William Aitken	3.032	10.65	−0.81
	Scottish Socialist	Charlie McCarthy	2,620	11.82	+8.31
	Liberal Democrats	Iain Brown	2,330	10.51	+4.18
Majority			6,253	28.21	−9.79
Turnout			22,165	43.64	−8.74
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish parliamentary by-election, 2000: Glasgow Anniesland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bill Butler	9.838	48.68	−10.13
	Scottish National Party	Tom Chalmers	4,462	22.08	+1.87
	Conservative	Kate Pickering	2,138	10.58	−0.07
	Scottish Socialist	Rosie Kane	1,429	7.07	+2.56
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Fryer	1,384	6.85	+0.52
	Scottish Green	Alistair Whitelaw	662	3.28	+3.28
	Socialist Labour	Murdo Ritchie	298	1.47	+0.98
Majority			5,376	26.60	−12.00
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish parliamentary election, 1999: Glasgow Anniesland
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Dewar	16,749	58.81	−3.03
	Scottish National Party	Kaukab Stewart	5,756	20.21	+3.10
	Conservative	Bill Aitken	3,186	14.37	+3.72
	Scottish Socialist	Ann Lynch	1,000	3.51	+2.83
	Liberal Democrats	Iain Brown	1,804	6.33	−0.91
	Socialist Labour	Edward Boyd	139	0.49	+0.49
Majority			10,993	38.60	−6.13