Glasgow City Council election, 2017

Glasgow City Council election, 2017

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All 85 seats to Glasgow City Council 43 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Susan Aitken Frank McAveety David Meikle Party SNP Labour Conservative Leader's seat Langside Shettleston Pollokshields Last election 27 seats, 32.57% 44 seats, 46.72% 1 seat, 5.94% Seats won 39 31 8 Seat change 12 13 7 Popular vote 70,239 51,778 25,018 Percentage 40.96% 30.20% 14.59% Swing 8.39% 16.52% 8.65%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Martin Bartos Party Scottish Green Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Partick East/Kelvindale Last election 5 seats, 5.55% 1 seat, 2.93% Seats won 7 0 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 14,925 5,013 Percentage 8.70% 2.92% Swing 3.15% 0.01%
The new 23 multi-member wards
Council Leader before election Frank McAveety Labour Council Leader after election Susan Aitken Scottish National Party

Frank McAveety
Labour

Susan Aitken
Scottish National Party

The Glasgow City Council election of 2017 was held on 4 May 2017, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election was the first to use 23 new wards, created as a result of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland's 5th Review. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system, a form of proportional representation used since the 2007 election and according to the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.

As predicted in the weeks leading up to the election, the Scottish Labour Party were replaced by the Scottish National Party as the largest party in the council, a first for the SNP and ending Labour's 37-year tenure of control, although the SNP were four seats short of an overall majority. The Scottish Conservatives gained seven seats, their best result since the 1984 election. This included some unexpected victories in wards, such as Shettleston and Calton, some of Glasgow's most deprived areas in the east. The Scottish Green Party also made gains to give them their best ever result in Glasgow's local elections, taking seven seats, two more than in 2012, and topping the first-preference vote in Hillhead to the west. The Scottish Liberal Democrats lost their only remaining seat, making this council the first without any Liberal representation since 1974.