Glasgow Garscadden (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Garscadden
Former Burgh constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	City of Glasgow
1974 (1974)–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Glasgow Anniesland
Created from	Glasgow Scotstoun

Glasgow Garscadden was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 until 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the north western periphery of the City of Glasgow.

In 1974 Garscadden was defined as comprising the Knightswood and Yoker wards of Glasgow. Before the redistribution these areas had been part of the Glasgow Scotstoun constituency.

In the 1983 redistribution the seat was only changed slightly. The whole of the old Garscadden formed 98.5% of the new constituency. A small area, further in towards the city centre, was detached from the pre-1983 Glasgow Hillhead and contributed the remaining 1.5% of the new Garscadden's electorate.

In terms of City of Glasgow electoral divisions the 1983 seat was defined as 9 (Drumry/Summerhill), 10 (Blairdardie/Knightscliffe), and 11 (Yoker/Knightswood).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	Feb 1974	Willie Small	Labour	Died 1978
	1978 by-election	Donald Dewar	Labour	Subsequently MP for Glasgow Anniesland 1997-2000; First Minister of Scotland 1999-2000
	1997	constituency abolished: see Glasgow Anniesland

Elections of the 1970s

General Election February 1974: Glasgow Garscadden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Watson Small	21,035	52.3	N/A
	Conservative	James Grant Rae	9,771	24.3	N/A
	SNP	Malcolm McRury	8,789	21.9	N/A
	Communist	Samuel Alexander Barr	635	1.6	N/A
Majority			11,264	28.0	N/A
Turnout			40,230	74.1	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election October 1974: Glasgow Garscadden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	William Watson Small	19,737	50.9	−1.4
	SNP	Keith Sydney Bovey	12,111	31.2	+9.4
	Conservative	John Corbett	5,004	12.9	−9.4
	Liberal	Michael Royston Kibby	1,915	4.9	N/A
Majority			7,626	19.7	−8.3
Turnout			38,767	70.9	−3.3
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A
Registered electors			54,700

• Death of William Small 18 January 1978

By-Election 1978: Glasgow Garscadden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Dewar	16,507	45.4	−5.5
	SNP	Keith Sydney Bovey	11,955	32.9	+1.7
	Conservative	Iain Macdonald Lawson	6,746	18.5	+5.6
	SLP	Mrs Shiona Farrell	583	1.6	N/A
	Communist	Samuel Alexander Barr	407	1.1	N/A
	Socialist Workers	Peter Porteous	166	0.5	N/A
Majority			4,552	12.5	−7.2
Turnout			36,364	69.1	−1.7
	Labour hold		Swing
Registered electors			57,603

General Election 1979: Glasgow Garscadden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Dewar	23,591	61.5	+10.6
	Conservative	Iain Macdonald Lawson	8,393	21.9	+9.0
	SNP	Jim Bain	6,012	15.7	−15.5
	Communist	Samuel Alexander Barr	374	1.0	N/A
Majority			15,198	39.6
Turnout			38,370	73.2	+2.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1983: Glasgow Garscadden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Dewar	19,635	56.2	−5.3
	Social Democratic	William Lyden	6,161	17.6	N/A
	Conservative	Kenneth Norman Macleod	5,368	15.4	−7.2
	SNP	Norman Malcolm Thomas Michael MacLeod	3,566	10.2	−5.7
	Communist	Samuel Alexander Barr	218	0.6	−0.4
Majority			13,474	38.6
Turnout			34,948	69.1	−4.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Glasgow Garscadden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Dewar	23,178	67.7	+11.5
	SNP	Andrew Brophy	4,201	12.2	+2.0
	Conservative	Thomas N.A. Begg	3,660	10.7	−4.7
	Social Democratic	James Stuart Callison	3,211	9.4	−8.2
Majority			18,977	55.5
Turnout			34,250	71.4	+2.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.0

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1992: Glasgow Garscadden

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donald Dewar	18,920	64.4	−3.3
	SNP	Dick Douglas	5,580	19.0	+6.8
	Conservative	James L.P. Scott	3,385	11.5	+0.8
	Liberal Democrat	Charles Gilchrist Brodie	1,425	4.9	−4.5
	Natural Law	William G. Orr	61	0.2	N/A
Majority			13,340	45.4
Turnout			29,371	71.3	−0.1
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• Glasgow Garscadden by-election, 1978

References

• The BBC/ITN Guide to the New House of Commons, (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1974-1983, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1984)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)