Glasgow Baillieston was a
burgh constituency
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of the
House of Commons
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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. It elected one
Member of Parliament
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(MP) using the
first-past-the-post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...
voting system.
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
Easterhouse is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, east of the city centre on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of an expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. The area is on high ground north of the River Clyde and south ...
,
Carmyle
Carmyle ( gd, An Càrn Maol) is a suburb in the east end of Glasgow, Scotland, directly north of the River Clyde. It is in an isolated location separated from the main urban area of the city and has the characteristics of a semi-rural village. A ...
,
Swinton,
Baillieston
Baillieston ( sco, Bailiestoun) is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about east of the city centre.
It also gives its name to Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council and forms part of the Glasgow East constituency of the UK Parliament.
Geograph ...
,
Garrowhill
Garrowhill ( sco, Garraehill or , gd, An Cnoc Garbh)
i ...
,
Barlanark
Barlanark ( ) is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated east of Budhill, Shettleston and Springboig, north west of Baillieston, west of Springhill and Swinton and south of Easthall, Easterhouse and Wellhouse.
Name
Th ...
,
Queenslie
Queenslie is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
Established in the 1950s as a large industrial estate with a small area of residential housing with a primary school, by the late 1990s the condition of the tenement properties had dete ...
,
Greenfield, and
Garthamlock
Garthamlock is a suburb in the north-east of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde. Provanhall is the nearest neighbourhood to the east; Craigend is directly to the west with Hogganfield Park and Ruchazie beyo ...
.
Housing the key to city's eastern fringe
The Herald, 29 March 1997
In 1997, the addition of much of the Shettleston constituency increased the notional majority of the previous Provan MP, Jimmy Wray
James Aloysius Joseph Patrick Gabriel WrayAaron Goldstei"Jimmy Wray, R.I.P.", ''The American Spectator'', 25 May 2013. (28 April 1935 – 25 May 2013) was a Scottish politician and Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow Baillieston and Glas ...
, 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 results
Elections of the 2000s
Elections of the 1990s
References
Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2005
Politics of Glasgow
Baillieston
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