Glasgow Govan (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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

Glasgow Govan
Former burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Glasgow Govan shown within the Glasgow electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Former constituency
Created	1999
Abolished	2011
Council area	Glasgow City (part) Renfrewshire (part)

Glasgow Govan was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election.

For the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, the constituency was abolished. The Govan electoral ward was divided between Glasgow Pollok and Glasgow Southside

Electoral region

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

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 and small western portion of Renfrewshire Council.^[1]

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.

Boundary review

Following their First Periodic review into constituencies to the Scottish Parliament in time for the 2011 election, the Boundary Commission for Scotland recommended the effective abolition of the Glasgow Govan constituency. The new creation was to be known as Glasgow Southside formed by the combination of Southside Central, and Pollokshields wards with the addition of the eastern half of the Govan division.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, represented the constituency from the 2007 election. She was previously an MSP for the Glasgow regional list from 1999 to 2007, during which time she was Leader of the Opposition at Holyrood from 2004 to 2007.

	Member	Party
1999	Gordon Jackson	Labour
2003	Gordon Jackson	Labour
2007	Nicola Sturgeon	Scottish National Party
2011	Constituency abolished; see Glasgow Southside

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon	9,010	41.9	+10.7
	Labour	Gordon Jackson	8,266	38.4	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Young	1,891	8.8	+0.3
	Conservative	Martyn McIntyre	1,680	7.8	-1.1
	Independent	Asif Nasir	423	2.0	N/A
	Communist	Elinor McKenzie	251	1.2	N/A
Majority			744	3.5
Turnout			22,741	45.4
Rejected ballots			1,220	5.36
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	4.7

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Jackson	7,834	37.06	−6.25
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon	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 Parliament election, 1999: Glasgow Govan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gordon Jackson	11,421	43.31	N/A
	SNP	Nicola Sturgeon	9,665	36.65	N/A
	Conservative	Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh	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

Notes

↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland

Rejected ballots for 2007 election from the BBC news page

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

Preceded by Aberdeen South	Constituency represented by the Deputy First Minister 2007 – present	Succeeded by current

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