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The City of Glasgow is divided into a number of wards. [3] These electoral districts, as they are also known, are used to elect councillors to Glasgow City Council . The council, composed of the elected members from each ward, provides local government services to the City of Glasgow.
The Scottish Parliament (), created by the Scotland Act 1998, has used a system of constituencies and electoral regions since the first general election in 1999.. The parliament has 73 constituencies, each electing one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first-past-the-post) system of voting, and eight additional member regions, each electing seven additional MSPs.
The Inverness and Nairn constituency is part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region; the other seven constituencies are Argyll and Bute, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Moray, Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Orkney, Shetland and Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch.
All wards in Scotland are multi-member wards, meaning there are multiple councillors per area. Under this system, voters must number their candidates by preference. First-preference votes are counted and the candidates with the least get eliminated, so the first-preference votes for the candidates get ignored and their second preferences get ...
Inverness South - 4 seats ; Party Candidate FPv% Count 1 2 3 4 5 6 SNP: Ken Gowans () : 35.2 1,949 Independent: Duncan MacPherson () : 24.8 1,375 Conservative
Glasgow East is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, located in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It elects one Member of Parliament at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting. It is currently represented by John Grady of the Labour Party who has been the MP since 2024.
Articles relating to wards for the local authorities of Scotland, generally created in 2007 on a multi-member, proportional representation basis, replacing smaller, single-member entities (some were created after this point on review). Subcategories should be at county-area levels.
Following their First Periodic review into constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, the Boundary Commission for Scotland had recommended a modified Glasgow Shettleston constituency. The electoral wards used to create the newly formed Shettleston are: In full: Calton, Shettleston; In part: Baillieston (shared with Glasgow Provan)