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Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency)

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Subdivisions of Scotland
  
City of Glasgow

Number of members
  
1

Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency)

Replaced by
  
Glasgow Central, Glasgow East

Glasgow Shettleston was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005. The Shettleston area is represented is now covered by Glasgow Central and Glasgow East.

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Boundaries

1918-1950: "That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary about 299 yards north-westward from the centre of Carntyne Road, at a point where the municipal boundary intersects that road, thence eastward, south-eastward and westward along the municipal boundary to the centre of the Caledonian Railway Branch Line from Rutherglen to Dalmarnock, thence northward along the centre line of the said railway until it, joins the Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Lines), thence northward, north-eastward, northward and north-eastward along the centre line of the last-mentioned railway to a point 380 yards south of the centre line of Cumbernauld Road, thence south-eastward to the point of commencement."

1950-1974: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Parkhead, Shettleston, and Tollcross, and part of Mile End ward.

1974-1983: The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Mile End and Parkhead, and parts of Shettleston and Tollcross wards.

1983-1997: The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Belvidere/Carntyne, Mount/Baillieston, and Parkhead/Shettleston.

1997-2005: The City of Glasgow District electoral divisions of Calton/Dalmarnock, Gorbals/Govanhill, and Shettleston/Tollcross.

Elections in the 1910s

  • endorsed by Coalition Government
  • References

    Glasgow Shettleston (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia