Glasgow Baillieston (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Baillieston was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Glasgow Baillieston
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Glasgow
1997–2005
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Glasgow East
Created from	Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Provan

Created for the 1997 general election, it took 54% of its voters from the previous Glasgow Shettleston constituency and 46% from the Glasgow Provan constituency. It included the areas of Easterhouse, Carmyle, Swinton, Baillieston, Garrowhill, Barlanark, Queenslie, Greenfield, and Garthamlock.[1]

In 1997, the addition of much of the Shettleston constituency increased the notional majority of the previous Provan MP, Jimmy Wray, to 14,165 (40.7%) over the SNP.

The seat was succeeded by Glasgow East in 2005.

Boundaries

The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Baillieston/Mount Vernon, Garthamlock/Easterhouse, and Greenfield/Barlanark.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [2]	Party
	1997	Jimmy Wray	Labour
	2005	constituency abolished

Election results

Elections of the 2000s

General election 2001: Glasgow Baillieston[3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jimmy Wray	14,200	61.0	−4.7
	SNP	Lachlan McNeill	4,361	18.7	−0.4
	Conservative	David Comrie	1,580	6.8	−0.9
	Scottish Socialist	Jim McVicar	1,569	6.7	+3.7
	Liberal Democrats	Charles Dundas	1,551	6.7	+2.9
Majority			9,839	42.3	−3.3
Turnout			23,261	47.2	−15.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 1990s

General election 1997: Glasgow Baillieston[5][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jimmy Wray	20,925	65.7
	SNP	Patsy J. Thomson	6,085	19.1
	Conservative	Malcolm G. Kelly	2,468	7.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sheila J. Rainger	1,217	3.8
	Scottish Socialist	Jim McVicar	970	3.0
	Referendum	John McClafferty	188	0.6
Majority			14,840	46.6
Turnout			31,853	62.2
	Labour win (new seat)

References

1. Housing the key to city's eastern fringe, The Herald, 29 March 1997
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
3. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
4. Vote 2001: Results & Constituencies: Glasgow Baillieston, BBC News
5. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.