Glasgow South.
Labour Party MP Gordon McKee holds the seat on 41.8% of the vote.
10 Jun 2026
Southside Glasgow, Labour-won 2024, three-way ward contest
Glasgow South is an urban seat on the southern side of the city, with an electorate of around 70,200 and a Census population of roughly 91,400 whose median age, at 38, sits a little below the national figure. The constituency draws together a clutch of southside neighbourhoods -- Langside, Pollokshields, Southside Central and Linn among them -- rather than orbiting a single dominant town, giving it the mixed, densely built character common to inner-city seats. Local services across the area are run by a single authority, Glasgow City Council, a Scottish council authority, which administers the four wards that fall within these boundaries.
That single-council footprint sits over a notably crowded ward-level contest. Across the most recent round of ward results, Labour and the Scottish National Party each took five wards and the Greens three, leaving no party with a clear command of the southside and the SNP, Labour and the Greens all polling competitively within individual wards. Those contests date largely to 2022, so the ward map is now several years old and may understate more recent movement. At Westminster level the picture has turned: the seat went Labour in 2024 on close to 42 per cent, with the SNP second on 32 per cent, a reversal of 2019, when the SNP won comfortably on 48 per cent. The sitting member, Labour's Gordon McKee, was elected on that 2024 swing and has registered no likely-whipped dissent in the past 90 days.
On the figures available the seat looks competitive rather than settled, a recent Labour gain layered over a ward map on which three parties remain in play. Recent local coverage has carried an engaged, contested tone, with attention to council service matters and to an active multi-party fight across the southside. With Labour holding Westminster but no party dominant at ward level, the constituency reads as genuinely in flux, its direction likely to depend on which of three competitors consolidates the southside vote.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langside(4 seats) | Bruce · Leinster · Docherty · Aitken | 8,717 | Glasgow City Ind | May 2022 |
| Linn | John Carson | 0 | Glasgow City Ind | Nov 2022 |
| Pollokshields(4 seats) | Raja · Molyneux · MacLeod · Ghani | 7,166 | Glasgow City Ind | May 2022 |
| Southside Central(4 seats) | Belic · Gallagher · Scanlon · Siddique | 5,287 | Glasgow City Ind | May 2022 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Headline indicators.
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Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £251m |
| Taxpayers | 45,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £3,430 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £5,530 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
This constituency is served by Glasgow City. Each council’s service spend, peer rank and supplier list lives on its own page — open from the meta block above or the compass strip below.
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No usable crime figures are available for this constituency — the local police force does not currently supply offence-level data to data.police.uk, so neither a crime rate nor a category breakdown can be shown.
2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon McKeeWON | Lab | 17,696 | 41.8 |
| Stewart McDonald | SNP | 13,542 | 32.0 |
| Niall Christie | Ind | 5,554 | 13.1 |
| Danny Raja | Ref | 1,736 | 4.1 |
| Haroun Malik | Con | 1,617 | 3.8 |
| Peter McLaughlin | LD | 1,316 | 3.1 |
| Brian Smith | Ind | 473 | 1.1 |
| Dhruva Kumar | Ind | 444 | 1.1 |
Turnout 42,378
Prior contests.
| Year | Winner | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Stewart Malcolm McDonald | SNP | 48.1 |
| 2017 | Stewart McDonald | SNP | 41.1 |
| 2015 | Stewart McDonald | SNP | 54.9 |
| 2010 | Harris, Tom | Lab | 51.7 |
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo