Glasgow Queen's Park was a short-lived burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 until 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system
Boundaries
The County of the City of Glasgow wards of Gorbals , Govanhill , and Hutchesontown , and part of Langside ward.
The constituency covered part of inner city Glasgow , to the south of the River Clyde and in the south-west of the city.
Before the February 1974 general election , the area had formed the major part of Glasgow Gorbals (Gorbals, Hutchesontown and part of Govanhill wards) and part of Glasgow Cathcart (the rest of Govanhill and Langside wards).[ 1]
In the 1983 redistribution, this constituency disappeared. 675 voters (2.0% of its electorate) were transferred to Glasgow Cathcart, 27,528 electors became part of Glasgow Central (79.7%), and the remaining 6,332 voters (18.4%) were included in the electorate of Glasgow Rutherglen .[ 2]
Members of Parliament
Election results
References
^ Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972 , compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)^ The BBC/ITN Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies , (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
Current constituencies (2024)