Anniesland: The facts

The constituency is essentially residential

The Anniesland constituency has a demography typical of its area - a decline in population and little in the way of traditional industries.

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How many people live there? It has been subject to the same population decline as in the rest of Glasgow and its surrounding areas, but currently it has about 65,837 residents.

What types of people live there? Just over 5% of residents could be considered "affluent achievers", the national average is 9%. But the two categories of people who dominate by some margin are pensioners - about 25% (the national average is 8%) and the unemployed or single families which make up 25% (the national average is just over 10%).

Educational institutions The usual primary and secondary schools, Glasgow university playing fields and Anniesland College, which has an average student population of 9,000. It is also home to the High School of Glasgow - a co-educational independent which has 960 senior pupils.

Housing: Following boundary changes earlier in the 1990s, the constituency now represents the people of Kelvinside, a well-to-do area of Glasgow where some property prices mirror those of the south east of England.

But in the main, housing is essentially council-owned, or former council-owned.

Drumchapel is particularly noted for having multiple social problems and economic deprivation.

Many of its older residents in the more traditional working class enclaves were shipped out to Anniesland in the mid-1930s when new family housing was built. The high-rises came after the war, but a percentage of them now lie derelict.

Employment: Anniesland is essentially residential. Householders commute the short distance into Glasgow, a small percentage work at the Yarrow yard in nearby Scotstoun.

Unemployment in some of its wards, including those in and around Drumchapel, is above the national average.

Politics: It has an electorate of just over 52,000. Labour dominates in the council - it secured eight seats at the last district elections, losing only one, Jordanhill, to Liberal Democrat Christopher Mason.

Donald Dewar was both its MP at Westminster, and latterly its MSP at Holyrood.

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The full list of candidates is:

Westminster

• Dorothy Luckhurst, Scottish Conservative

• William Lyden, Family Action Movement

• Charlie McCarthy, Scottish Socialist Party

• Christopher McGinty, Scottish Liberal Democrats

• John Robertson, Scottish Labour

• Grant Thoms, Scottish National Party

Scottish Parliament

• William Butler, Scottish Labour Party

• Thomas Chalmers, SNP

• Judith Fryer, Scottish Liberal Democrats

• Rosie Kane, Scottish Socialist Party

• Kate Pickering, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

• Murdo Ritchie, Socialist Labour Party

• Alastair Whitelaw, Scottish Green Party