Glasgow Govan (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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**Glasgow Govan**
Scottish Parliament burgh constituency

Glasgow Govan shown within the Glasgow electoral region
Created:	1999
MSP:	Gordon Jackson
Party:	Labour
Council areas:	Glasgow City

Glasgow Govan 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 and council areas
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 Anniesland, Glasgow Baillieston, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Rutherglen, Glasgow Shettleston and Glasgow Springburn.

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

[edit] Constituency boundaries and council areas

The Glasgow Govan 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 covers a western portion of the Glasgow City council.

Glasgow Govan is south of the Kelvin constituency, west of Shettleston and north of Cathcart and Pollok, which are all entirely within the city area.

[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament

The constituency is currently represented by Labour MSP Gordon Jackson.

[edit] Election results

Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Jackson	7,834	37.06	−6.25
	Scottish National Party	Bill Kidd	6,599	31.22	−5.43
	Scottish Socialist	Jimmy Scott	2,369	11.21	+6.38
	Conservative	Faisal Butt	1,878	8.89	+0.01
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Graham	1,807	8.55	+2.94
Majority			1,235	5.84	−0.82
Turnout			21,136	43.46	−6.06
	Labour hold		Swing

Scottish parliamentary election, 1999: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Jackson	11,421	43.31	N/A
	Scottish National Party	Nicola Sturgeon	9,665	36.65	N/A
	Conservative	Tasmina Ahmed-Seikh	2,343	8.88	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Aslam Khan	1,479	5.61	N/A
	Scottish Socialist	Charlie McCarthy	1,275	4.83	N/A
Majority			1,756	6.66	N/A