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Eastwood, Strathclyde
Eastwood was a local government district in the Strathclyde region. It was derived from the civil parish of Eastwood which had been within the county of Renfrewshire, though latterly included areas which had become annexed Lanarkshire and the expanding city of Glasgow. Established in 1975, it covered the parts of the parish outside Glasgow, plus adjoining areas to the south; it was abolished in 1996 to become part of East Renfrewshire. History Local government across mainland Scotland was reorganised in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which replaced the counties, burghs and landward districts with a two-tier system comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Renfrewshire County Council and the First District Council (which had covered the parishes of Eaglesham, Mearns, and the parts of the parishes of Cathcart and Eastwood outside the borders of Glasgow) were abolished. Eastwood District was created covering the same area as the former First Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giffnock
Giffnock (; ; , ) is a town and the administrative centre of East Renfrewshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies east of Barrhead, east-southeast of Paisley and northwest of East Kilbride, at the southwest of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. Giffnock has frequently been named amongst the least deprived areas in Scotland. It had been first place but that title went to Stockbridge, Edinburgh in 2020. Giffnock is mentioned in documents as early as the seventeenth century as a scattered agricultural settlement. In the late eighteenth century, Archibald Montgomerie, the Earl of Eglinton, was forced to partition the land into a number of smaller properties. The urbanisation and development of Giffnock began in the mid to late nineteenth century with the construction of several sandstone quarries, and this prompted the development of the first railway link with nearby Glasgow. Large-scale quarrying continued in Giffnock for almost a century. However, the qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrhead
Barrhead (, ) is a town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, southwest of Glasgow city centre on the edge of the Gleniffer Braes. At the 2011 census its population was 17,268. History Barrhead was formed when a series of small textile-producing villages (Barrhead, Arthurlie, Grahamston and Gateside) gradually grew into one another to form one continuous town. According to local historian James McWhirter, the name "Barrhead" first appeared in 1750. Glanderston House, to the south, at one time belonged to the Stewart kings of Scotland. In 1851 there was an explosion at the Victoria Pit colliery in nearby Nitshill, killing 63 men and boys who worked in the mine, many of whom lived in Barrhead. The victims were buried in a mass grave in the yard at St John's Church on Darnley Road, and although some bodies were later exhumed and reburied in other cemeteries, some may still reside at St John's in an unmarked grave. In 1890, with a rapidly expanding population approaching 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Eastwood District Council Election
The 1992 Eastwood District Council election for the Eastwood, Strathclyde, Eastwood District Council took place in May 1992, alongside 1992 Scottish District local elections, elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The Conservatives again maintained their dominance of the council, winning 56% of the vote and two-thirds of the Districts' seats. Aggregate results References {{United Kingdom local elections, 1992 1992 Scottish local elections, Eastwood District Council election Eastwood District Council elections, 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Eastwood District Council Election
Elections for the Eastwood, Strathclyde, Eastwood District Council took place on Thursday 5 May 1988, alongside 1988 Scottish District local elections, elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The Conservatives continued their dominance of the council, winning 49% of the vote and two thirds of the Districts seats. Aggregate results References {{United Kingdom local elections, 1988 1988 Scottish local elections, Eastwood District Council election Eastwood District Council elections, 1988 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Eastwood District Council Election
Elections for the Eastwood District Council took place on Thursday 3 May 1984, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The Conservatives continued their dominance of the council, winning 58% of the vote and all but two of the District's seats. Aggregate results References {{United Kingdom local elections, 1984 Eastwood 1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ... May 1984 in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Eastwood District Council Election ...
The 1980 Eastwood Council election for the Eastwood District Council took place on 1 May 1980, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The Conservatives maintained their dominance of the council, winning all but 2 of the Districts seats. Aggregate results References {{United Kingdom local elections, 1980 Eastwood District Council election 1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Eastwood District Council Election ...
Elections for the Eastwood District Council took place on 1 May 1977, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The Conservatives maintained their dominance of the council, winning all but 2 of the Districts seats. Aggregate results Ward results References {{United Kingdom local elections, 1977 Eastwood District Council election 1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Eastwood District Council Election
Elections to Eastwood District Council were held on 7 May 1974, on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. This was the first election to the district council following the implementation of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The election used the 12 wards created by the Formation Electoral Arrangements in 1974. Each ward elected one councillor using first-past-the-post voting. The Conservatives took control of the council after winning a majority. The party took 10 of the 12 seats and more than half of the popular vote. The remaining two seats were won by Residents Association candidates. Background Prior to 1974, the area that was to become Eastwood was part of the County of Renfrew. Although there were seven burghs in the County of Renfrew, none were located in the area that would become Eastwood. Burghs had some controls over local government depending on their size with the rest of the local government responsibility falling to the county ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Liberal Democrats
The Scottish Liberal Democrats () is a liberal, federalist political party in Scotland, part of UK Liberal Democrats. The party holds 5 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, 6 of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons and 86 of 1,227 local councillors. The Scottish Liberal Democrats is one of the three state parties within the federal Liberal Democrats, the others being the Welsh Liberal Democrats and the English Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Democrats do not contest elections in Northern Ireland. History Formation and early years The Scottish Liberal Democrat party was formed by the merger of the Scottish Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Scotland, as part of the merger of the Liberal Party and SDP on 3 March 1988. The party campaigned for the creation of a devolved Scottish Parliament as part of its wider policy of a federal United Kingdom. In the late 1980s and 1990s it and its representatives participated in the Scottish Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Labour
Scottish Labour (), is the part of the UK Labour Party (UK), Labour Party active in Scotland. Ideologically social democratic and Unionism in the United Kingdom, unionist, it holds 23 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 37 of 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It is represented by 266 of the 1,227 local councillors across Scotland. The Scottish Labour party has no separate Chief Whip at Westminster. Throughout the later decades of the 20th century and into the first years of the 21st, Labour dominated politics in Scotland; winning the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 United Kingdom general election, 1964 to 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010, every European Parliament election from 1984 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 1984 to 2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 2004 and in the first two Elections in Scotland, elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 Scottish Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Conservatives
The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (), known as Scottish Tories, is part of the UK Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party active in Scotland. It currently holds 5 of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, 30 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, and comprises 206 of Scotland's 1,226 local councillors. The party's policies in Scotland usually promote conservatism and the continuation of Scotland's role as part of the United Kingdom. The party's policies promote Conservatism in the United Kingdom, conservatism and a Unionism in Scotland, pro-union position supporting Scotland continuing to be part of the United Kingdom. The Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party is Russell Findlay who was 2024 Scottish Conservatives leadership election, elected to the role in September 2024. The party campaigns in elections to the UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament and local government in Scotland, local government. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
