Glasgow North East | |
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Burgh constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Glasgow North East in Scotland.
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Subdivisions of Scotland | City of Glasgow |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2005 |
Member of parliament | Paul Sweeney (Scottish Labour and Co-operative Party) |
Created from |
Glasgow Springburn Glasgow Maryhill |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | Scotland |
Glasgow North East is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster). It was first contested at the 2005 general election. The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Paul Sweeney of the Scottish Labour and Co-operative Party, who won his seat from the SNP's Anne McLaughlin at the 2017 snap general election with a narrow majority of 242 votes.
From the seat's creation until 2009, the constituency was represented by Michael Martin, previously MP for Glasgow Springburn from 1979. Martin was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in October 2000, but in May 2009 he announced that he would be resigning as Speaker on 21 June 2009 because of his perceived role in the MPs' expenses controversy. He was the first Speaker in 300 years to be forced out of office by a motion of no confidence. He also resigned as an MP the following day, resulting in a by-election on 12 November 2009, which was won by Willie Bain of the Labour Party with 59% of the vote; Bain retained the seat the following year at the 2010 UK general election, but was defeated by Anne McLaughlin of the SNP in 2015.