Glasgow Baillieston LAB Hold

Scottish Parliament election

constituency

	Glasgow Baillieston	LAB Hold

	CANDIDATE	PARTY	VOTES	%	+/-%
	Margaret Curran	LAB	9657	52.9	+5.2
	Lachlan McNeill	SNP	3479	19.0	-15.6
	Jim McVicar	SSP	2461	13.5	+5.6
	Janette McAlpine	CON	1472	8.1	+1.6
	David Jackson	LD	1201	6.6	+3.1
		MAJORITY	6178	33.8
		TURNOUT	18270	39.4

ELECTORATE	46346

Top-up region: City of Glasgow

DESCRIPTION: Glasgow Baillieston

On the outer east side of Glasgow, this seat was created in the last boundary review, taking the areas of Ballieston and Mount Vernon from the old Shettleston seat and the Easterhouse, Barlanark and Gartloch from the less illustrious old Provan seat. It is industrial in character and includes the Easterhouse estate. In May 2000 Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith visited the estate to publicise his party's approach to the problems of social deprivation. The seat has high levels of unemployment, one-parent families and drug abuse.

The 1999 election saw a near-halving of Labour's vote, which was blamed on the low turnout. Margaret Curran, who has made a steady climb through committee and junior ministerial ranks, is now social justice minister. The SNP polled well here in 1999 with 35%, but the candidate, Dorothy-Grace Elder, has since fallen out spectacularly with the party and is not standing this time.

PREVIOUS RESULTS

	1999 SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTION		LAB WIN
	PARTY	VOTES	%
	LAB	11289	47.6
	SNP	8217	34.7
	SSP	1864	7.9
	CON	1526	6.4
	LD	813	3.4

	2001 GENERAL ELECTION		LAB WIN
	PARTY	VOTES	%
	LAB	14200	61
	SNP	4361	18.7
	CON	1580	6.8
	SSP	1569	6.7
	LD	1551	6.7