Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency)

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**Glasgow Central**
Burgh constituency

Glasgow Central shown within Scotland
Created:	1885, recreated 2005
MP:	Mohammad Sarwar
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
Council areas:	City of Glasgow
EP constituency:	Scotland

Glasgow Central is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

The constituency covers the city centre of Glasgow. It has the largest ethnic minority population of any constituency in Glasgow, and is currently represented by Mohammad Sarwar, who was the first Muslim MP in the UK.

Contents

1 Boundaries
2 Member of Parliament
3 Election results

3.1 Elections in the 2000s
3.2 Elections in the 1990s
3.3 Elections in the 1980s
3.4 Elections in the 1970s
3.5 Elections in the 1960s
3.6 Elections in the 1950s

4 See also

Boundaries

Glasgow Central was created in 1885 but was abolished in the 1995 review, but the name was revived for the 2005 review.

In the review ahead of the 2005 general election, Glasgow suffered the brunt of the Scottish boundary changes, losing three seats. The new Central constituency is formed from five former seats; mainly Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Kelvin and Glasgow Shettleston and small parts of Glasgow Pollok and Glasgow Rutherglen.

It sits across the River Clyde, including the wards of Kelvingrove, Anderston, Merchant City, Calton, Pollokshields and Govanhill. This seat has the highest percentage of non-white population in Glasgow.

Member of Parliament

Constituency created 1885
1885 - 1886: Gilbert Beith
1886 - 1906: John George Alexander Baird
1906 - 1909: Sir Andrew Mitchell Torrance
1909 - 1915: Charles Scott Dickson, Unionist
1915 - 1918: John Mackintosh McLeod
1918 - 1923: Andrew Bonar Law, Unionist
1923 - 1945: Sir William Alexander, Unionist
1945 - 1950: James Hutchison, Unionist
1950 - 1966: J McInnes, Labour
1966 - 1980: Thomas McMillan, Labour
1980 - 1989: Robert McTaggart, Labour
1989 - 1997: Mike Watson, Labour
Constituency abolished 1997
Constituency re-created 2005
2005 - present: Mohammad Sarwar, Labour

Election results

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland
Labour	Aberdeen North \| Aberdeen South \| Airdrie and Shotts \| Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock \| Central Ayrshire \| Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill \| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East \| Dumfries and Galloway \| Dundee West \| East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow \| East Lothian \| East Renfrewshire \| Edinburgh East \| Edinburgh North and Leith \| Edinburgh South \| Edinburgh South West \| Falkirk \| Glasgow Central \| Glasgow East \| Glasgow North \| Glasgow North West \| Glasgow South \| Glasgow South West \| Glenrothes \| Inverclyde \| Kilmarnock and Loudoun \| Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath \| Lanark and Hamilton East \| Linlithgow and East Falkirk \| Livingston \| Midlothian \| Motherwell and Wishaw \| North Ayrshire and Arran \| Ochil and South Perthshire \| Paisley and Renfrewshire North \| Paisley and Renfrewshire South \| Rutherglen and Hamilton West \| Stirling \| West Dunbartonshire
Liberal Democrat	Argyll and Bute \| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk \| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross \| Dunfermline and West Fife \| East Dunbartonshire \| Edinburgh West \| Gordon \| Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey \| North East Fife \| Orkney and Shetland \| Ross, Skye and Lochaber \| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
SNP	Angus \| Banff and Buchan \| Dundee East \| Moray \| Na h-Eileanan an Iar \| Perth and North Perthshire
Conservative and Unionist	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Speaker	Glasgow North East
Scotland European constituency: Labour (2) \| SNP (2) \| Conservative and Unionist (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)

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