Latest headlines
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Victory for the SNP with 63 seats - two short of a majority
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Conservatives are the second largest party on 31 seats - but Labour on 24 lost 13 seats
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Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Lib Dems who won five
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See the changing political map of Scotland
Scoreboard
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
SNP Scottish National Party |
Candidates Sandra White | Votes 10,964 | 38.5% | Net percentage change in seats −4.8 |
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Party
GRN Scottish Green Party |
Candidates Patrick Harvie | Votes 6,916 | 24.3% | Net percentage change in seats +24.3 |
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LAB Scottish Labour |
Candidates Michael Shanks | Votes 5,968 | 21.0% | Net percentage change in seats −18.8 |
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CON Scottish Conservatives |
Candidates Sheila Mechan | Votes 3,346 | 11.8% | Net percentage change in seats +4.2 |
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LD Scottish Lib Dems |
Candidates Carole Ford | Votes 1,050 | 3.7% | Net percentage change in seats −4.0 |
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IND Independent |
Candidates Tom Muirhead | Votes 198 | 0.7% | Net percentage change in seats −1.0 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout and Majority
Scottish National Party Majority
4,048Turnout
45.7%Constituency Profile
The whole of Glasgow city centre is contained in the seat. It also features Glasgow University, Strathclyde University and Glasgow Caledonian University.
To the east of the constituency, the Merchant City contains many flats converted from disused cotton and tobacco warehouses and is a symbol of the area’s bid to modernise. The seat, which no longer features the BAE shipyard at Scotstoun, is the most prosperous one in Glasgow. Kelvin's predecessor seat, Glasgow Hillhead, was the last Conservative constituency in Glasgow until Roy Jenkins won it for the SDP at a Westminster by-election in 1982.
He held it at the 1983 general election but it was then taken by Labour’s George Galloway, who remained Kelvin’s representative at Westminster until he headed south in 2005. Labour’s Pauline McNeill represented the Glasgow Kelvin seat from 1999 to 2011 when she lost it to the SNP’s Sandra White.