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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.
Constituencies created in 1999 were based on Scottish Westminster constituencies that were created in 1997 and they in turn were based on the boundaries of local government regions and districts and islands areas that existed at the time, but since have been abolished and replaced with the council areas.
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 uses the additional member system (AMS), a compensatory form of proportional representation, to elect MSPs. The electorate have two votes to cast one a Scottish Parliamentary election day, one for a constituency MSP and one for a Regional list MSP. [6] It consists of 73 FPTP constituencies and 8 regional lists. [7]
The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors.The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils, the electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils, while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils ...
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Scottish Parliament constituencies retain the names and boundaries of the older Westminster constituencies. At the 2024 general election the constituency has been significantly re-drawn, to take in significant areas south of the River Clyde, in Gorbals and Govanhill. It currently consists of the following electoral wards of the City of Glasgow:
The constituency boundaries were altered ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election by the first periodical review of Scottish Parliament constituencies. The rest of Stirling council area is represented by the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency. The electoral wards used in the creation of Stirling are listed below.