2017 Glasgow City Council election

2017 Glasgow City Council election

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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, 32.6% 44 seats, 46.7% 1 seat, 5.9% Seats won 39 31 8 Seat change 12 13 7 Popular vote 70,239 51,778 25,018 Percentage 41.0% 30.2% 14.6% Swing 8.4% 16.5% 8.65%   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Scottish Green Liberal Democrats Last election 5 seats, 5.5% 1 seat, 2.93% Seats won 7 0 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 14,925 5,013 Percentage 8.7% 2.92% Swing 3.2% 0.01%
Overall Result SNP vote share by wards Labour vote share by wards Conservative vote share by wards Green vote share by wards
Council Leader before election Frank McAveety Labour Council Leader after election 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.^[1] 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,^[2] the Scottish Labour 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,^[3] 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 Greens 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.

On 18 May, the SNP formally took control of the council as a minority administration with SNP members filling the positions of council leader, depute council leader, and Lord Provost.^[4]