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Glasgow South.

Labour Party MP Gordon McKee holds the seat on 41.8% of the vote.

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Member of ParliamentGordon McKee · Labour Party
CouncilGlasgow City
Boundary set2023
ONS codeS14000087
Electorate · 2024
70.2k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
41.8%
Labour Party · +9.8pp over SNP
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
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.

41.8%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
4
Wards · 13 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.4 wards · 13 councillors

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Langside(4 seats)Bruce · Leinster · Docherty · Aitken8,717Glasgow City IndMay 2022
Linn John Carson0Glasgow City IndNov 2022
Pollokshields(4 seats)Raja · Molyneux · MacLeod · Ghani7,166Glasgow City IndMay 2022
Southside Central(4 seats)Belic · Gallagher · Scanlon · Siddique5,287Glasgow City IndMay 2022

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ

Ethnicity.

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.6% Female 51.4% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£30,500
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£36,400
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,040
VAT/PAYE-registered

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£251m
Taxpayers45,000
Median per taxpayer£3,430
Mean per taxpayer£5,530

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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§ 05Recorded crime.data.police.uk

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.

§ 06Election history.5 contests · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Gordon McKeeWONLab17,69641.8
Stewart McDonaldSNP13,54232.0
Niall ChristieInd5,55413.1
Danny RajaRef1,7364.1
Haroun MalikCon1,6173.8
Peter McLaughlinLD1,3163.1
Brian SmithInd4731.1
Dhruva KumarInd4441.1

Turnout 42,378

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2019Stewart Malcolm McDonaldSNP48.1
2017Stewart McDonaldSNP41.1
2015Stewart McDonaldSNP54.9
2010Harris, TomLab51.7
Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission