Glasgow Baillieston was a constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

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 of the Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament...

 (Holyrood

Scottish Parliament Building

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). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.-Methods of Election:MSPs are elected in one of two ways:...

 by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. The seat was represented by Labour's Margaret Curran from the inception of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 until her retirement in 2011.

For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the constituency was abolished. The Baillieston electoral ward was divided between Provan

Glasgow Provan (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Provan is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

 and Shettleston

Glasgow Shettleston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Shettleston is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

 seats.

Constituency boundaries

The current Glasgow Baillieston constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999

Scottish Parliament election, 1999

The Scottish Parliament election, 1999 was the first general election of the Scottish Parliament, with voting taking place on 6 May 1999 to elect 129 members...

, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency

Glasgow Baillieston (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Baillieston was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament using the first-past-the-post voting system....

. In 2005

United Kingdom general election, 2005

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160....

, however, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.

The Holyrood constituency is entirely within the Glasgow City council area, on the area's eastern boundary. It is east of the Shettleston and Springburn constituencies and north of the Rutherglen constituency. Shettleston and Springburn are also entirely within the city area. Rutherglen straddles the boundary between the Glasgow City and South Lanarkshire council areas.

Boundary review

Following their First Periodic review of constituencies to the Scottish Parliament the Boundary Commission for Scotland recommended the abolition of the Baillieston constituency. The Garrowhill, Bailliston, Swinton, and Barlanark areas of the Baillieston electoral area were combined with Calton and Shettleston, to form an enlarged Glasgow Shettleston

Glasgow Shettleston (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Shettleston is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

 constituency, whilst the East Centre, North East, and remaining areas of the Baillieston ward form a newly created Glasgow Provan

Glasgow Provan (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Glasgow Provan is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

 constituency.

Constituency profile

The constituency included the areas of Ballieston, Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon, Glasgow

Mount Vernon is a residential area in the east end of the City of Glasgow, Scotland.-History:The area was originally part of the Parish of Old Monkland, and also of the Barony and Regality of Glasgow...

, Easterhouse

Easterhouse

Easterhouse is a suburb about east of Glasgow city centre, Scotland. It was partially built on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of a boundary expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. Building began in the mid-1950s by the then local authority, Glasgow Corporation...

, Barlanark

Barlanark

Barlanark is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is east of the districts of Shettleston, Budhill and Springboig, north west of Baillieston, west of Swinton and Springhill and south of Easthall, Wellhouse and Easterhouse.-Name:The name Barlanark is an apparently hybrid Gaelic-Brythonic...

 and Gartloch. It is industrial in character and has high levels of unemployment, one-parent families and drug abuse.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1999 Scottish Parliament election, 1999 The Scottish Parliament election, 1999 was the first general election of the Scottish Parliament, with voting taking place on 6 May 1999 to elect 129 members...	Margaret Curran	Labour Scottish Labour Party The Scottish Labour Party is the section of the British Labour Party which operates in Scotland....
	2003 Scottish Parliament election, 2003 The Scottish Parliament election, 2003, was the second general election of the Scottish Parliament. It was held on 1 May 2003 and it brought no change in terms of control of the Scottish Executive...
	2007 Scottish Parliament election, 2007 The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the third general election to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999...
	2011 Scottish Parliament election, 2011 The 2011 Scottish Parliament general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.The election delivered the first majority government since the opening of Holyrood, a remarkable feat as the mixed member proportional representation system is used to...	Constituency abolished; see Glasgow Provan Glasgow Provan (Scottish Parliament constituency) Glasgow Provan is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the plurality method of election...

Election results

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