The West Dunbartonshire Community Party is a minor political party involved in

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elections in

West Dunbartonshire West Dunbartonshire ( sco, Wast Dunbairtonshire; gd, Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Iar, ) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. The area lies to the west of the City of Glasgow and contains many of Glasgow's commuter town ...

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. The party was formed in 2015 to contest the 2017 West Dunbartonshire Council election.

History

In 2015, the party was founded by Drew MacEoghainn along with other community activists. It was decided that the party should have no leader giving an equal say to all members. The

Scottish Socialist Party The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; gd, Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; sco, Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scotland. The party was founded in 1998. It c ...

's only elected representative,

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Jim Bollan Jim Bollan (born c. 1950) is a councillor in West Dunbartonshire, representing the West Dunbartonshire Community Party. Until 2016 he was a member of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), having been the only elected representative from that party ...

, and his

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colleague, Councillor George Black, joined the party in 2016. The two councillors retained their existing designations until the council was dissolved in early 2017 in preparation for the election that May. In the

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, only Bollan was elected to represent the party, with Black losing his seat in Dumbarton ward. Bollan retained his seat in the 2022 elections.https://www.west-dunbarton.gov.uk/media/4322019/declarationofresultsreport_v0001_ward-2-leven_06052022_095041.pdf

References

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