By-elections - 6th August

[maxque]

Anderson / City – Glasgow – Resignation of Martin Docherty (SNP), the new MP for West Dunbartonshire.

2012: Lab 1561/1113, SNP 1057/516, Grn 558, Con 249, Solidarity 89, LD 89, Pirate 46, Glasgow 1st 20, Britannica 17 (winners: Lab, Lab, SNP, Grn on 10th count; final count Grn 891, SNP 683)
2007: SNP 1632, Lab 1291/1177, Grn 880, LD 806, Con 486, Solidarity 285, SSP 198, Ind 145 (winners: SNP, Lab, Lab, Grn on 6th count; final count Lab 1291, Grn 1247, LD 1050 with a 40 votes Lab surplus)

Eva Bolander (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Stevie Creighton (Scottish Libertarian Party)
Katie Ford (Scottish Labour Party)
Ary Jaff (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
Janice MacKay (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Gary McLelland (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
Christy Mearns (Scottish Green Party)

Calton – Glasgow – Resignation of Alison Thewliss (SNP), the new MP for Glasgow Central.

2012: Lab 1595/892, SNP 695/672, Grn 135, Glasgow 1st 131, Con 120, Unionist 109, Ind 71/41, SSP 43, LD 43, Britannica 9 (winners: Lab, Lab, SNP on 12th count; final count was an SNP duel)
2007: Lab 1982/628, SNP 1143, Solidarity 302, Con 245, LD 231, Grn 219, Unionist 195, Ind 128, SSP 126 (winners: Lab, SNP, Lab on 7th count; final count Lab 1189, Sol 446, Con 409 with a 60 votes SNP surplus)

Malachy Clarke (Scottish Green Party)
Greg Hepburn (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Thomas Kerr (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
Karen King (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Tommy Ramsay
Thomas Rannachan (Scottish Labour Party)
Chris Young (Scottish Liberal Democrats)

Craigton – Glasgow – Resignation of Iris Gibson (SNP), due to ill health. She had been one of the few non-Labour councillors elected in Glasgow in the years before STV (she was first elected for Mosspark in 1999). Her son Kenneth (who held the Mosspark seat before her) is the MSP for Cunninghame North since 2007 (and list MSP for Glasgow 1999-2003) and is the convenor of the Finance Committee.

2012: Lab 2279/2102, SNP 1876/700, Sol 472, Con 292, Grn 169, Glasgow 1st 147, UKIP 86, LD 76 (winners: Lab, Lab, SNP, SNP on 9th count; final count SNP 1193, Sol 772)
2007: SNP 2729, Lab 2065/1920/1328, Sol 1220, Con 569, LD 457, Grn 315, Unionist 225, SSP 224 (winners: SNP, Lab, Lab, Sol on 8th count; final count Lab 2177, Sol 1641, Lab 1493 (for 2 seats))

Phillip Charles (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
Isabel Nelson (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
Katie Noble (Scottish Green Party)
Kevin O’Donnell (Scottish Labour Party)
Arthur Thackeray (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Alex Wilson (Scottish National Party (SNP))

Langside – Glasgow – Resignation of Liam Hainey (Green), due to health and family circumstrances.

2012: Lab 2441, SNP 1930/652, Grn 618, LD 498, Con 493, TUSC 162, Glasgow First 10 (winners: Lab, SNP, Grn on 7th count; final count Grn 1288, SNP 1114)
2007: SNP 2522, Lab 2222/853, LD 1207, Con 993, Grn 891, Solidarity 467, SSP 179 (winners: SNP, Lab, LD on 7th count; final count LD 1961, Grn 1463)

Eileen Dinning (Scottish Labour Party)
Ian Leech (Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition)
Will Millinship (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
Cailean Mongan (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Robert Pollock (Scottish Green Party)
Anna Richardson (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Kyle Thornton (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)

Hamilton South – South Lanarkshire – Resignation of Angela Crawley (SNP), the new MP for Lanark & Hamilton East.

Oct 2013 by: Lab 1781, SNP 1120, Con 322, Christian 133, UKIP 86 (Lab winning in 1st count)
2012: Lab 1975/800, SNP 1255/502, Con 496, All-Scotland Pensioners Party 199, Christian 165 (winners: Lab, SNP, Lab, SNP on 6th count; final count SNP 861, Con 653)
2007: Lab 2626/1005, SNP 1791, Con 808, Ind 464/215, LD 427, Grn 188 (winners: Lab, SNP, Lab, Con on 7th count; final count Con 1121, Ind 876)

Matthew Cockburn (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
John Kane (Scottish Green Party)
Jim Lee (Scottish Labour Party)
Donald MacKay (UKIP)
Andrew McCallum (The Pirate Party)
Lynne Nailon (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
John Ross (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Craig Smith (Scottish Christian Party “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship”)

[maxque]

Sad to see than UKIP is running that anti-Catholic bigot Thackeray anywhere near Glasgow.

[No Offence Alan]

Other than when coinciding with May local elections, this must be a contender for the largest electorate taking part in by-elections on one day.

[maxque]

23285 (Anderston/City)
19333 (Calton)
24119 (Craigton)
20938 (Langside)
13862 (Hamilton South)

For a total of 101537 electors.

[andrewteale]

The Labour candidate in Calton is the independent who got 41 votes in 2012.

The UKIP candidates in Anderston/City and Hamilton South appear to be husband and wife.

[AdminSTB]

Andrew Teale's full previews now up on the blog:
blog.scottishelections.org.uk/

And I'm off to bed. Got an actual weekend off this week - a whole weekend! Totally going to spend it all typing up election results for my website.

[piperdave]

First result of the night and it's an SNP hold in Calton by new Cllr Greg Hepburn.

Green	99	3.64%	+0.68%
SNP	1507	54.47%	+24.47%
Cons	129	4.75%	+2.12%
UKIP	103	3.79%	+3.79%
Ind	47	1.73%	+0.83%
Labour	814	29.96%	-24.63%
Lib Dem	18	0.66%	-0.28%

Turnout was 16.17% and there were 2,717 valid papers and 50 rejected papers. The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected was 1,359. The swing was 24.55% from Labour to SNP.

[dizz]

Calton by-election, Glasgow (6th August) :

SNP 55.5% (+25.5%)
Labour 30.0% (-24.6)
Conservatives 4.7% (+2.1)
UKIP 3.8% (n/a)
Greens 3.6% (+0.6)
Independent - Ramsay 1.7% (n/a)
Liberal Democrats 0.7% (-0.2)

No actual vote figures but turnout said to be 16%

[timmullen1]

Glasgow - Calton

Malachy Clarke, Scottish Green Party: 99
Greg Hepburn, Scottish National Party (SNP): 1507
Thomas Kerr, Scottish Conservative and Unionist: 129
Karen King, UK Independence Party (UKIP): 103
Tommy Ramsay, (Independent): 47
Thomas Rannachan, Scottish Labour Party: 814
Chris Young, Scottish Liberal Democrats: 18

The quota of votes for a candidate to be elected was 1,359.

Greg Hepburn (SNP) is elected as a member for the Calton ward at the first stage

Glasgow - Anderston/City

First preference votes

Eva Bolander, Scottish National Party (SNP): 1441

Stevie Creighton, Scottish Libertarian Party: 12

Katie Ford, Scottish Labour Party: 857

Ary Jaff, Scottish Conservative and Unionist: 164

Janice Mackay, UK Independence Party (UKIP): 43

Gary McLelland, Scottish Liberal Democrats: 66

Christy Mearns, Scottish Green Party: 414

Eve Bolander (SNP) is elected as a member for the Anderston-City ward at the sixth stage.



Incidentally South Lanarkshire are starting counting at 7am Friday morning.

[piperdave]

Hot on it's heels is Anderston-City with Eva Bolander retaining the seat for the SNP on the 6th count.

SNP	1441	48.08%	+18.48%
Libertarian	12	0.40%	+0.40%
Labour	857	28.60%	-21.71%
Cons	164	5.47%	+0.79%
UKIP	43	1.43%	+1.43%
Lib Dem	66	2.20%	+0.53%
Green	414	13.81%	+3.31%

There were 2997 valid votes. The swing was 20.01% from Labour to the SNP.

[piperdave]

On to the Green defence of Langside and it's an SNP gain at stage 2 by Anna Richardson. While it is a Green loss, they did squeak in here in 2012 so the extra 5% should help them next time around, apart from it's all new boundaries so no direct comparisons, just a bit of fun!

Labour	932	21.80%	-14.00%
TUSC	62	1.45%	-1.03%
Lib Dem	125	2.92%	-4.33%
UKIP	65	1.52%	+1.52%
Green	579	13.54%	+5.04%
SNP	2134	49.91%	+12.30%
Cons	379	8.86%	+1.48%

There were 4276 valid ballot papers. The swing was 13.15% from Labour to the SNP.



There were 2997 valid votes. The swing was 20.01% from Labour to the SNP.

[piperdave]

And news on Twitter is SNP win Craigton on the first count and win Hamilton South after transfers so a clean SNP sweep with 4 holds on what look like substantial swings and a pick up from the Greens who were unlikely to hold it in a by-election anyway.

[andrewteale]

Craigton: SNP 2674 Lab 1643 C 300 Grn 136 UKIP 95 LD 87

[timmullen1]

Apologies I misread South Lanarkshire's website, the Hamilton South figures are:

Matthew Peter Cockburn – Scottish Liberal Democrats – 32
John Kane – Scottish Green Party – 127
Jim Lee – Scottish Labour Party – 1,396
Donald Murdo MacKay – UKIP – 43
Andrew Jackson McCallum – The Pirate Party – 13
Lynne Nailon – Scottish Conservative and Unionist – 349
John MacLennan Ross – Scottish National Party (SNP) - 1,881
Craig Smith – Scottish Christian Party “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship” – 77

The total number of votes cast were 3970. In this by-election, there was one seat to fill, so the winning candidate therefore needed to receive 50% plus 1 of the total valid votes – a quota of 1960.

John MacLennan Ross was therefore duly elected at stage 6.

The turnout was 26.8% from a total electorate of 14,811.

[maxque]

Langside:

SNP 54.2% (+16.6)
Lab 33.3% (-2.3)
Con 6.1% (-1.1)
Grn 2.8% (-6.2)
UKIP 1.9% (+0.9)
LD 1.8% (-5.4)

Hamilton (2012; 2013 by):
SNP 48.0% (+15.4; +15.5)
Lab 35.5% (-16.0; -16.2)
Con 8.9% (-0.3; -0.5)
Grn 3.2%
Christian 2.0% (-1.1; -1.9)
UKIP 1.1% (+1.1; -1.4)
LD 0.8%
Pirate 0.3%

[Pete Whitehead]

Aug 7, 2015 1:46:19 GMT maxque said:

Langside:

SNP 54.2% (+16.6)
Lab 33.3% (-2.3)
Con 6.1% (-1.1)
Grn 2.8% (-6.2)
UKIP 1.9% (+0.9)
LD 1.8% (-5.4)

Hamilton (2012; 2013 by):
SNP 48.0% (+15.4; +15.5)
Lab 35.5% (-16.0; -16.2)
Con 8.9% (-0.3; -0.5)
Grn 3.2%
Christian 2.0% (-1.1; -1.9)
UKIP 1.1% (+1.1; -1.4)
LD 0.8%
Pirate 0.3%

Is the first result supposed to be for Craigton ?

[timmullen1]

Aug 7, 2015 7:33:38 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Aug 7, 2015 1:46:19 GMT maxque said:

Langside:

SNP 54.2% (+16.6)
Lab 33.3% (-2.3)
Con 6.1% (-1.1)
Grn 2.8% (-6.2)
UKIP 1.9% (+0.9)
LD 1.8% (-5.4)

Hamilton (2012; 2013 by):
SNP 48.0% (+15.4; +15.5)
Lab 35.5% (-16.0; -16.2)
Con 8.9% (-0.3; -0.5)
Grn 3.2%
Christian 2.0% (-1.1; -1.9)
UKIP 1.1% (+1.1; -1.4)
LD 0.8%
Pirate 0.3%

Is the first result supposed to be for Craigton ?

I presume it was the attempted Green defence in Langside where they polled 9% in 2012, which would tally with the posted percentages.

[Pete Whitehead]

BUt Piperdave has posted tottally different figures for Langside

[Pete Whitehead]

Looks like the %s are for the result in Craigton but the change in vote share are compared with Langside 2012

[The Bishop]

Those figures are indeed for Craigton, and the correct % changes since 2012 are:

SNP +22.8
Lab -20.1
Con +2.5
Green +0.7
UKIP +0.9
LibDem +0.9