Glasgow Shettleston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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**Glasgow Shettleston**
Scottish Parliament burgh constituency

Glasgow Shettleston shown within the Glasgow electoral region
Created:	1999
MSP:	Frank McAveety
Party:	Labour
Council area:	Glasgow City (part)

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 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 Anniesland, Glasgow Baillieston, Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Kelvin, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Rutherglen 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

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.

The Holyrood constituency is entirely within the Glasgow City council area, on its south-eastern boundary. It is south of the Springburn constituency, west of Baillieston, north of Rutherglen and Cathcart and east of Govan and Kelvin.

The Springburn, Baillieston, Cathcart, Govan and Kelvin constituencies are also entirely within the city area.

The Rutherglen constituency is mostly in the South Lanarkshire council area.

[edit] Member of the Scottish Parliament

The constituency is currently represented by Labour MSP Frank McAveety.

[edit] Election results

Scottish parliamentary election, 2003: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Frank McAveety	9,365	56.60	+2.65
	Scottish National Party	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 parliamentary election, 1999: Glasgow Shettleston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank McAveety	11,078	53.95	N/A
	Scottish National Party	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
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A