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Glasgow Baillieston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament

Summary

Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament

Field	Value
name	Glasgow Baillieston
type	burgh
constituency_link	Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions
parl_name	Scottish Parliament
image	[[File:Glasgow Baillieston ScottishParliamentConstituency.svg]]
image2	[[File:Glasgow 1999 (Scottish Parliament electoral region).svg	200px]]
caption2	Glasgow Baillieston shown within the Glasgow electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
year	1999
abolished	2011
party_label	Party
member_label	MSP
local_council_label	Council area
local_council	Glasgow City

Declaration of results in Glasgow Baillieston constituency in the [[2007 Scottish Parliament election]].

Glasgow Baillieston 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. The seat was represented by Labour's Margaret Curran from the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 until her retirement in 2011.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the constituency was abolished. The Baillieston electoral ward was divided between Provan and Shettleston seats.

Electoral region

Constituency boundaries

The current Glasgow Baillieston 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 was entirely within the Glasgow City council area, on the area's eastern boundary. It was east of the Shettleston and Springburn constituencies and north of the Rutherglen constituency. Shettleston and Springburn were also entirely within the city area. Rutherglen straddles the boundary between the Glasgow City and South Lanarkshire council areas.

Boundary review

Following their First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament the Boundary Commission for Scotland recommended the abolition of the Baillieston constituency. The Garrowhill, Bailliston, Swinton, and Barlanark areas of the Baillieston electoral area were combined with Calton and Shettleston, to form an enlarged Glasgow Shettleston constituency, whilst the East Centre, North East, and remaining areas of the Baillieston ward form a newly created Glasgow Provan constituency.

Constituency profile

The constituency included the areas of Ballieston, Mount Vernon, Easterhouse, Barlanark and Gartloch. It is industrial in character and has high levels of unemployment, one-parent families and drug abuse.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election	Member	Party
Scottish Labour Party}}"		1999	Margaret Curran
	2011	Constituency abolished; see Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Shettleston

Election results

Footnotes

References

See [http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/ ''The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland''] {{webarchive. link. (September 21, 2007)

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