Human settlement in Scotland
Drumchapel/Anniesland
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 Drumchapel/Anniesland Ward (2017) within Glasgow | |
 View looking north-west over Drumchapel from Linkwood towers (2014) | |
| Area | 7.30 km (2.82 sq mi) |
| Population | 29,432 (2015) |
| • Density | 4,031.8/km (10,442/sq mi) |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GLASGOW |
| Postcode district | G13, G15 |
| Dialling code | 0141 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
Drumchapel/Anniesland (Ward 14) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. Since its creation in 2007 it has retained the same boundaries and returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system.
Boundaries
Located in the far north-west of Glasgow, the ward's western boundary is with West Dunbartonshire and its northern boundary with East Dunbartonshire. Despite its name, it contains only part of the Anniesland neighbourhood (the streets to the north of Anniesland Road, and to the north of Great Western Road, east of Anniesland Cross). It contains all of Drumchapel, Netherton, Temple, Old Drumchapel, Blairdardie and High Knightswood, and part of Knightswood (streets to the east of Great Western Road and Knightswood Road).
The ethnic makeup of the Drumchapel/Anniesland ward using the 2011 census population statistics was:
- 94.3% White Scottish / British / Irish / Other
- 3.3% Asian
- 1.8% Black (mainly African)
- 0.6% Mixed / Other Ethnic Group
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Paul Carey (Labour) |
Bill Kidd (SNP) |
Steven Purcell (Labour) |
Jonathan Findlay (Labour) | ||||
| 2009 by | Anne McTaggart (Labour) | |||||||
| 2010 by | Christopher Hughes (Labour) | |||||||
| 2012 | Judith Fisher (Labour) |
Malcolm Balfour (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | Anne McTaggart (Labour/SNP) |
Elspeth Kerr (SNP) | ||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Fyeza Ikhlaq (SNP) |
Patricia Ferguson (Labour) | ||||||
| 2024 | Davena Rankin (Labour) | |||||||
Election Results
2024 By-election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Davena Rankin | 34.3 | 1,084 | 1,108 | 1,143 | 1,193 | 1,263 | 1,385 | 1,857 | |
| SNP | Adekemi Giwa | 26.3 | 830 | 841 | 847 | 971 | 1,083 | 1,134 | ||
| Reform UK | Allan Douglas Lyons | 12.8 | 405 | 412 | 461 | 473 | 524 | |||
| Independent | Elsbeth Kerr | 9.4 | 297 | 310 | 331 | 372 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Christopher Lavelle | 8.3 | 263 | 270 | 275 | |||||
| Conservative | Steven Morrison | 5.8 | 184 | 196 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Edward Shields | 2.9 | 93 | |||||||
| Electorate: 20,895 Valid: 3,156 Spoilt: 42 Quota: 1,579 Turnout: 15.3% | ||||||||||
2022 Election
2022 Glasgow City Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Paul Carey (incumbent) | 27.8 | 2,011 | |||||||
| SNP | Anne McTaggart (incumbent) | 20.0 | 1,446 | |||||||
| SNP | Fyeza Ikhlaq | 13.1 | 945 | 959 | 969 | 971 | 1,278 | 1,366 | 1,626 | |
| Labour | Patricia Ferguson | 10.3 | 747 | 1,191 | 1,209 | 1,240 | 1,252 | 1,368 | 1,495 | |
| Conservative | Pauline Sutherland | 9.5 | 689 | 701 | 701 | 724 | 727 | 771 | 792 | |
| Scottish Green | Duncan Webford | 6.1 | 438 | 444 | 475 | 498 | 523 | 610 | ||
| Independent | Elspeth Kerr (incumbent) | 5.2 | 376 | 409 | 434 | 454 | 464 | |||
| SNP | Cylina Porch | 4.8 | 350 | 358 | 369 | 373 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Frank Stalley | 1.6 | 118 | 122 | 127 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Joe Meehan | 1.5 | 106 | 112 | ||||||
| Electorate: 21,148 Valid: 7,226 Spoilt: 222 Quota: 1,446 Turnout: 35.2% | ||||||||||
Source:
2017 Election
2017 Glasgow City Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Labour | Paul Carey (incumbent) | 24.83% | 1,871 | ||||||||||
| SNP | Malcolm Balfour (incumbent) | 24.45% | 1,842 | ||||||||||
| SNP | Elspeth Kerr †††††† | 10.98% | 827 | 849 | 1,073 | 1,086 | 1,095 | 1,101 | 1,213 | 1,963 | |||
| Labour | Anne McTaggart†††† | 12.49% | 941 | 1,177 | 1,189 | 1,194 | 1,213 | 1,288 | 1,308 | 1,327 | 1,456 | 1,876 | |
| Conservative | Patrick Logue | 11.59% | 873 | 895 | 898 | 903 | 904 | 945 | 962 | 966 | 981 | ||
| SNP | Malcolm Mitchell | 8.99% | 678 | 682 | 733 | 738 | 747 | 749 | 829 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Louisa McGuigan | 4.27% | 322 | 331 | 348 | 353 | 369 | 379 | |||||
| UKIP | Bryan Free | 1.25% | 94 | 101 | 105 | 106 | 106 | ||||||
| Scottish Socialist | Joe Meehan | 0.68% | 51 | 56 | 58 | 63 | |||||||
| Solidarity | Gary Kelly | 0.46% | 35 | 42 | 48 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 21,507 Valid: 7,534 Spoilt: 308 Quota: 1,507 Turnout: 36.5% | |||||||||||||
2012 Election
2012 Glasgow City Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Labour | Paul Carey (incumbent) | 30.65% | 2,075 | ||||||||||
| Labour | Jon Findlay (incumbent) | 17.70% | 1,198 | 1,552 | |||||||||
| SNP | Malcolm Balfour | 19.82% | 1,342 | 1,388 | |||||||||
| Labour | Judith Fisher | 13.01% | 881 | 1,079 | 1,235 | 1,236 | 1,241 | 1,243 | 1,247 | 1,274 | 1,328 | 1,378 | |
| SNP | John Docherty | 9.44% | 639 | 665 | 676 | 705 | 709 | 713 | 717 | 747 | 807 | 854 | |
| Conservative | Martyn McIntyre | 3.62% | 245 | 248 | 251 | 252 | 253 | 255 | 260 | 292 | 315 | ||
| Scottish Green | Alastair Whitelaw | 2.63% | 178 | 183 | 187 | 188 | 196 | 199 | 216 | 251 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul McGarry | 1.96% | 133 | 139 | 142 | 143 | 143 | 146 | 150 | ||||
| Independent | James Trolland | 0.50% | 34 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 39 | 45 | |||||
| Glasgow First | Gerrard O'Neill McCue | 0.30% | 20 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 30 | ||||||
| TUSC | Eric Stevenson | 0.37% | 25 | 26 | 27 | 27 | |||||||
| Electorate: 21,288 Valid: 6,770 Spoilt: 180 Quota: 1,355 Turnout: 32.65% | |||||||||||||
2010 by-election
On 6 May 2010, a by-election was held following the resignation of Labour councillor Stephen Purcell. The by-election was won by Labour's Christopher Hughes.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Labour | Christopher Hughes | 56.3 | 5,710 | |
| SNP | Frank Rankin | 21.7 | 2,197 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul McGarry | 11.3 | 1,143 | |
| Conservative | Richard Alan Sullivan | 7.0 | 710 | |
| Scottish Green | Larry Butler | 3.7 | 375 | |
| Electorate: 19,951 Valid: 10,030 Spoilt: 239 Quota: 5,016 Turnout: 10,269 (51.47%) | ||||
2009 by-election
On 4 June 2009, a by-election was held following the resignation of SNP MSP Bill Kidd as councillor. The by-election was won by Labour's Anne McTaggart.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Anne McTaggart | 48.4 | 2,584 | 2,593 | 2,613 | 2,651 | 2,689 | |
| SNP | Martin J Docherty | 28.3 | 1,509 | 1,530 | 1,573 | 1,651 | 1,698 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Nathalie McKee | 6.5 | 349 | 362 | 373 | 443 | 532 | |
| Conservative | Richard Alan Sullivan | 5.9 | 316 | 327 | 359 | 366 | ||
| Scottish Green | Eileen Duke | 5.1 | 270 | 284 | 295 | |||
| BNP | John Robertson | 3.3 | 177 | 186 | ||||
| Independent | James Trolland | 2.4 | 129 | |||||
| Electorate: 20,141 Valid: 5,334 Spoilt: 84 Quota: 2,667 Turnout: 5,418 (26.9%) | ||||||||
2007 Election
2007 Glasgow City Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Paul Carey | 26.31 | 2,284 | |||||||
| SNP | Bill Kidd | 21.53 | 1,869 | |||||||
| Labour | Steven Purcell | 21.38 | 1,856 | |||||||
| Labour | Jonathan Findlay | 12.70 | 1,102 | 1,374 | 1,385 | 1,445 | 1,455 | 1,476 | 1,524 | |
| Conservative | Susan McCourt | 4.75 | 412 | 419 | 425 | 428 | 517 | 520 | 535 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Lee | 4.02 | 349 | 364 | 379 | 385 | 400 | 415 | 454 | |
| Scottish Green | Eileen Margaret Cartner Duke | 3.00 | 260 | 283 | 300 | 305 | 319 | 361 | 428 | |
| Solidarity | Esther Nixon | 2.57 | 223 | 243 | 259 | 263 | 267 | 321 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | Mike Dyer | 1.71 | 148 | 175 | 186 | 191 | 197 | |||
| Scottish Unionist | Bobby Howie | 2.04 | 177 | 184 | 188 | 190 | ||||
| Electorate: 20,398 Valid: 8,680 Spoilt: 214 Quota: 1,737 Turnout: 43.60% | ||||||||||
- Outgoing councillor for Summerhill single-member ward.
- Outgoing councillor for Blairdardie single-member ward.
- Outgoing councillor for Anniesland single-member ward.
See also
References
- City Ward Factsheets 2017: Ward 14 - Drumchapel/Anniesland, Glasgow City Council
- "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ Teale, Andrew (27 December 2008). "Local Election Results 2007 (Glasgow)" (PDF). Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Election Results 2012". glasgow.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012.
- "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- "Notice of election agents". Glasgow City Council. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
- "Declaration of Results Report Ward 14 Drumchapel-Anniesland". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
- "Candidate votes per stage Ward 14 Drumchapel-Anniesland". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
- "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
- "Ward - 14 Drumchapel & Anniesland - Local By Election 2010". glasgow.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 23 June 2010.
- "www.kristoferkeane.co.uk - Scottish Elections :: Drumchapel/Anniesland By-Election 2009". Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
External links
- Listed Buildings in Drumchapel/Anniesland Ward, Glasgow City at British Listed Buildings