Victoria Park (ward)

Victoria Park
Victoria Park Ward (2017) within Glasgow
View looking south down Crow Road towards the Victoria Park ward (2015)
Area4.41 km2 (1.70 sq mi)
Population20,950 (2015)[1]
• Density4,750.6/sq mi (1,834.2/km2)
Council area
Lieutenancy area
  • Glasgow
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townGLASGOW
Postcode districtG11, G13, G14
Dialling code0141
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
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Victoria Park (Ward 12) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council.[2] Created as Partick West in 2007 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system;[3] the boundaries were unchanged in 2012. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed, the ward decreased in size and population, was re-named Victoria Park and returned three members.

Boundaries

Located in the west of Glasgow, the core of the ward since its creation as Partick West in 2007 has been formed from the Broomhill, Thornwood, Jordanhill, Glasgow Harbour and Whiteinch neighbourhoods, along with a small part of Anniesland (south of Anniesland Road and west of the Argyle Line railway), and a small part of Partick (west of the Argyle/North Clyde Line railway), with the southern boundary being the River Clyde.

The 2017 changes removed all territory to the east of the railway lines: most of Partick and Partickhill, and part of Anniesland south of Great Western Road, which were added to a new Partick East/Kelvindale ward. With little of Partick now in the boundaries, a new name was adopted from Victoria Park which had been in part of the territory since its creation.

The ethnic makeup of the ward using the 2011 census population statistics was:

  • 91.5% White Scottish / British / Irish / Other
  • 6.3% Asian
  • 1% Black (mainly African)
  • 1.2% Mixed / Other Ethnic Group

Councillors

Election Councillors
2007 Aileen Colleran
(Labour) 		Christopher Mason
(Liberal Democrats) 		Kenny McLean
(SNP) 		Stuart Clay
(Green)
2012[4] Feargal Dalton
(SNP) 		Martin Bartos
(Green)
2017[5] Maggie McTernan
(Labour) 		Ade Aibinu
(Conservative) 		3 seats
2022[6] Eunis Jassemi
(Labour) 		Lana Reid-McConnell
(Green)

Election results

2022

Victoria Park – 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3
Labour Eunis Jassemi 28.4 2,447    
SNP Feargal Dalton (incumbent) 26.6 2,291    
Scottish Green Lana Reid-McConnell 23.4 2,016 2,102 2,200
Conservative Ade Aibinu (incumbent) 15.8 1,364 1,419 1,422
Liberal Democrats James Douglas Speirs 4.2 358 445 453
Alba Mahmood Ullah 1.6 141 145 153
Electorate: 17,512   Valid: 8,617   Spoilt: 84   Quota: 2,155   Turnout: 49.7%  

Source:[7][8]

2017

Victoria Park – 3 seats[9]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
SNP Feargal Dalton * 26.39% 2,248
Conservative Ade Aibinu 23.69% 2,018 2,019 2,022 2,148
Labour Maggie McTernan 19.97% 1,701 1,706 1,722 1,872 1,879 1,977 3,001
Scottish Green Allan Faulds 13.50% 1,150 1,172 1,190 1,336 1,339 1,937
SNP Deirdre Parkinson 10.05% 856 936 941 961 962
Liberal Democrats James Douglas Speirs 5.78% 492 494 497
TUSC Matt McGrath 0.61% 52 52
Electorate: 17,660   Valid: 8,517   Spoilt: 117   Quota: 2,130   Turnout: 48.9%  

* = Sitting Councillor for Partick West ward.

2012

Partick West – 4 seats[4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Labour Aileen Colleran (incumbent)[a] 19.97% 1,884 1,885 1,890                    
Scottish Green Martin Bartos 14.71% 1,388 1,388 1,392 1,392 1,395 1,409 1,418 1,478 1,662 1,946      
SNP Feargal Dalton 18.63% 1,757 1,757 1,758 1,758 1,759 1,760 1,767 1,776 1,813 1,913      
SNP Kenny McLean (incumbent) 14.87% 1,403 1,403 1,403 1,403 1,405 1,410 1,421 1,434 1,479 1,538 1,553 1,575 1,813
Labour Michael Shanks 12.13% 1,144 1,144 1,147 1,149 1,153 1,156 1,167 1,190 1,258 1,380 1,394 1,395  
Conservative John Anderson 10.33% 974 977 979 979 995 1,017 1,041 1,041 1,161        
Liberal Democrats James Paris 5.54% 523 525 526 526 532 534 540 540          
Scottish Socialist Andrew Gray 1.19% 112 112 113 113 113 113 114            
Scottish Christian Donald Williamson 0.96% 91 91 91 91 95 102              
UKIP Stuart Maskell 0.68% 64 65 65 65 77                
Scottish Unionist Catherine Findlay 0.43% 41 59 60 60                  
Glasgow First Nicholas Black 0.29% 27 27                      
Scottish Unionist Robert Findlay 0.27% 25                        
Electorate: 25,686   Valid: 9,433   Spoilt: 198   Quota: 1,887   Turnout: 9,631 (37.50%)  
  1. ^ On 2 October 2014, Colleran resigned from Scottish Labour amid fallout from that year's Scottish independence referendum. She continued to sit on the council as an independent.[10]

2007

2007 Council election: Partick West[3]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
SNP Kenny McLean 22.06 2,811            
Liberal Democrats Christopher Mason[a] 17.73 2,259 2,300 2,325 2,354 2,411 2,910  
Labour Aileen Colleran[b] 16.47 2,099 2,115 2,128 2,150 2,199 2,275 2,316
Scottish Green Stuart Clay 12.51 1,594 1,652 1,744 1,789 1,963 2,175 2,304
Labour Irene Graham[c] 13.33 1,699 1,716 1,732 1,741 1,785 1,866 1,920
Conservative Richard Alan Sullivan 11.02 1,404 1,419 1,419 1,529      
Solidarity Jimmy Ross 2.93 373 402 465 472      
Scottish Unionist George Aytoun Atkinson 2.08 265 268 271        
Scottish Socialist Andrew Gray 1.88 240 253          
Electorate: 23,574   Valid: 12,744   Spoilt: 197   Quota: 2,549   Turnout: 54.90%  
  1. ^ Outgoing councillor for Jordanhill single-member ward.
  2. ^ Outgoing councillor for Partick single-member ward.
  3. ^ Outgoing councillor for Victoria Park single-member ward.

See also

References

  1. ^ City Ward Factsheets 2017: Ward 12 - Victoria Park, Glasgow City Council
  2. ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b Teale, Andrew (27 December 2008). "Local Election Results 2007 (Glasgow)" (PDF). Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Election Results 2012". glasgow.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 6 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Notice of election agents". Glasgow City Council. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Declaration of Results Report Ward 12 Victoria Park". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Candidate votes per stage Ward 12 Victoria Park". Glasgow City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Local Election 2017 Full Results". Glasgow City Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Labour council chief quits amid indyref fallout". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 17 June 2021.