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Glasgow West.

Labour Party MP Patricia Ferguson holds the seat on 46.7% of the vote.

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Member of ParliamentPatricia Ferguson · Labour Party
CouncilGlasgow City
Boundary set2023
ONS codeS14000089
Electorate · 2024
69.0k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
46.7%
Labour Party · +16.2pp over SNP
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
9 Jun 2026

Glasgow city seat, Labour-leaning, SNP-contested locally

Glasgow West is a compact urban seat in the city's north-west, drawing roughly 99,080 residents from an electorate of about 69,000. Its median age of 37 sits below the national mark, giving it a younger profile than much of Scotland. The constituency is not a network of small towns but a slice of the wider city, and local services are run by a single authority, Glasgow City, the Scottish council whose wards Drumchapel/Anniesland and Victoria Park fall within these boundaries. The structured record names no separate settlements, which fits a seat carved from the contiguous urban fabric of Glasgow itself rather than from distinct towns.

The recent ward picture is closely balanced. Across the most recent contests on record, dated to 2022, the Scottish National Party and Labour each took three wards and the Greens one, with no single party dominant at municipal level. Those council results are now several years old, and the parliamentary picture tells a clearer story. At the 2024 general election, the first fought on this boundary, Labour won with 46.7 per cent against the SNP's 30.5 per cent, a margin of some sixteen points. Patricia Ferguson, Labour, has held the seat since that contest and has shown no whipped dissent in the past three months.

On the figures available, the seat appears to lean Labour at Westminster while remaining more contested in council terms, where the SNP runs level. The tenor of recent local coverage has been administrative and service-focused, weighted towards constituency casework and council spending rather than national controversy, with the area's profile lifted by its part in hosting forthcoming sporting events. That gap between a comfortable parliamentary margin and a finely split ward map suggests a constituency that is broadly Labour-leaning at present but not closed to challenge from below.

46.7%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
2
Wards · 7 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.2 wards · 7 councillors

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

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Drumchapel/Anniesland(4 seats)McTaggart · Ikhlaq · Ferguson · Carey5,149Glasgow City IndMay 2022
Victoria Park(3 seats)Jassemi · Dalton · Reid-McConnell6,754Glasgow 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 48.1% Female 51.9% 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
£29,100
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£38,600
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,005
VAT/PAYE-registered

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£282m
Taxpayers44,000
Median per taxpayer£3,000
Mean per taxpayer£6,380

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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.

For household tax breakdown

Move the income slider on My place to see income tax, NI, VAT and council tax against your earnings — the household lens.

§ 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.1 contest · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Patricia FergusonWONLab18,62146.7
Carol MonaghanSNP12,17530.5
Nick QuailInd3,6629.2
Dionne MooreRef2,0985.3
Faten HameedCon1,7204.3
James CalderLD1,3163.3
John CormackInd3100.8

Turnout 39,902

Prior contests.

Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.

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