Glasgow Cathcart (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Cathcart is a
constituency of the
Scottish Parliament (
Holyrood). It elects one
Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the
plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the
Glasgow electoral region, which elects seven
additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of
proportional representation for the region as a whole.
See also Glasgow Scottish Parliament regionThe other nine constituencies of the Glasgow region are
Glasgow Anniesland,
Glasgow Baillieston,
Glasgow Govan,
Glasgow Kelvin,
Glasgow Maryhill,
Glasgow Pollok,
Glasgow Rutherglen,
Glasgow Shettleston and
Glasgow Springburn.
The region covers the
Glasgow City council area, a north-western portion of the
South Lanarkshire council area and a small eastern portion of the
Renfrewshire council area.
The Glasgow Cathcart constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in
1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing
Westminster constituency. In
2005, however, Scottish Westminster (
House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.
The Holyrood constituency is entirely within the Glasgow City council area, on the area's southern boundary. It is east of the Pollok constituency, south of Govan and Shettleston and west of Rutherglen.
The Pollock and Shettleston constituencies are also entirely within the city area.
The Govan constituency includes a small eastern portion of the Renfrewshire council area. The Rutherglen constituency includes a north-western portion of the South Lanarkshire council area.
Glasgow Cathcart also has boundaries with the
East Kilbride constituency, which is in the
Central Scotland electoral region, and with the
Eastwood constituency, which is in the
West of Scotland region.
* 1999 - 2005:
Mike Watson,
Labour resigned in 2005 due to conviction and 16 month prison sentence for fire-rasing in Sept 2005 [
1]
* 2005 -
present:
Charlie Gordon,
Labour
