North East (Glasgow ward)

North East (Ward 21) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council.^[2] On its creation in 2007 and in 2012 it returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system.^[3] For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the ward boundaries were redrawn with a smaller size and population, and it returned three members.

North East
North East Ward (2017) within Glasgow
Aerial view (2015) of the Provanhall and Garthamlock neighbourhoods in the North East ward, which also contains the Glasgow Fort shopping park
Area	14.90 km2 (5.75 sq mi)
Population	20,457 (2015)[1]
• Density	1,372/km2 (3,550/sq mi)
Council area	Glasgow City Council
Lieutenancy area	Glasgow
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GLASGOW
Postcode district	G33, G34
Dialling code	0141
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
List of places UK Scotland Glasgow

Boundaries

Located in the far north-east of Glasgow, the core of the ward since 2007 includes neighbourhoods between the M8 motorway and the city boundary with North Lanarkshire: Easterhouse, Provanhall, Garthamlock, Craigend, Ruchazie, Hogganfield, Provanmill and Blackhill as well as the village of Gartloch, all bordered by open ground, much of which is within the Seven Lochs Wetland Park.

The 2017 changes removed the Robroyston, Barmulloch, Wallacewell and Balornock neighbourhoods located to the west of the M80 motorway, as well as the streets in Millerston within Glasgow, which were added to the Springburn ward. Following the alterations, it was the ward covering the largest area in the city, but with the lowest population spread the most thinly across the territory. A 2019 specific review caused the removal of a few streets of modern housing at Cardowan from the North East ward and the Glasgow council area, re-allocating them to the Stepps, Chryston and Muirhead ward of North Lanarkshire along with the rest of the developments in that area, addressing an anomaly dating back to when the boundary crossed open fields.^[4][5]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007[6]		Grant R Thoms (SNP)		Gilbert Davidson (Labour)		Gerald Leonard (Labour)		Catherine McMaster (Labour)
2012[7]	Gerry Boyle (SNP)	Maureen Burke (Labour)	Sohan Singh (Labour)
2017[8]	Ruairi Kelly (SNP)			Mandy Morgan (SNP)	3 seats
2022[9]				Sharon Greer (Labour)
2024		Mary McNab (Labour)
2025			Donna McGill (SNP)

Election results

2025 by-election

North East by-election (20 March 2025) − 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Donna McGill	34.5	689	690	692	700	711	754	815	1,060
	Labour	Debbie Duffy	28.7	573	576	581	591	612	623	728
	Reform UK	Rob Maddison	23.6	472	482	484	489	506	516
	Conservative	Kyle Cannon	4.1	81	85	87	88
	Green	Hayley McDonald	3.5	70	70	82	90	97
	TUSC	Anne McAllister	2.6	52	53	55
	Liberal Democrats	Peter McLaughlin	1.9	37	37
	UKIP	Christopher Ho	1.2	24
Electorate: 14,955   Valid: 1,998   Spoilt: 31   Quota: 1,000   Turnout: 13.6

Source:^[10]

2024 by-election

North East by-election (21 November 2024) − 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Mary McNab	34.3	630	642	655	671	708	808	1,069
	SNP	Kilian Riley	32.2	591	596	605	632	638	686
	Reform UK	Robert McGregor	18.2	336	337	349	366	397
	Conservative	Thomas Haddow	5.3	99	104	107	111
	Green	Hayley McDonald	4.2	77	79	94
	TUSC	Anne McAllister	3.7	68	72
	Liberal Democrats	Peter McLaughlin	1.9	36
Electorate: 15,040   Valid: 1,837   Spoilt: 31   Quota: 919   Turnout: 12.4%

2022 election

2022 Glasgow City Council election

North East − 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Maureen Burke (incumbent)	34.0	1,532
	SNP	Ruairi Kelly (incumbent)	29.0	1,305
	SNP	Mandy Morgan (incumbent)	13.6	612	624	770	771	775	846	862
	Labour	Sharon Greer	9.9	447	790	798	804	815	852	1,067	1,349
	Conservative	John White	8.6	389	403	404	407	415	422
	Green	Iain McLarty	3.0	136	141	151	157	175
	TUSC	Annie McAllister	1.2	52	56	57	62
	Scottish Libertarian	Cam Milne	0.6	28	31	31
Electorate: 15,312   Valid: 4,501   Spoilt: 158   Quota: 1,126   Turnout: 30.4%

Source:^[11][12]

2017 election

2017 Glasgow City Council election

North East – 3 seats^[13]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Maureen Burke (incumbent)	27.25%	1,176
	SNP	Ruairi Kelly	22.50%	971	974	979	991	1,030	1,160
	SNP	Mandy Morgan	17.13%	739	740	743	771	792	871	940	1,035
	Conservative	Frances Howell	12.14%	524	527	528	543	607	684	684
	Independent	Gerry Boyle (incumbent)	9.89%	427	432	437	452	534
	Labour	Stephen Docherty	7.93%	342	411	415	438
	Green	Carole Ure	2.36%	102	103	109
	Solidarity	Jenny Kiernan	0.79%	34	35
Electorate: 15,406   Valid: 4,315   Spoilt: 198   Quota: 1,079   Turnout: 29.3%

2012 election

2012 Glasgow City Council election

North East – 4 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Labour	Maureen Burke	29.18%	1,958
	SNP	Gerry Boyle	20.53%	1,378
	Labour	Gerry Leonard (incumbent)	20.04%	1,345
	Labour	Sohan Singh	14.39%	966	1,411
	SNP	Tony Kenny	9.12%	612	647
	Conservative	Kim Schmulian	3.13%	210	215
	Green	Stuart Clay[a]	1.76%	118	141
	Liberal Democrats	John C. MacPherson	1.13%	76	85
	TUSC	Jamie Cocozza	0.72%	48	58
Electorate: 25,247   Valid: 6,711   Spoilt: 242   Quota: 1,343   Turnout: 27.54%

1. Outgoing councillor from Partick West ward.

2007 election

2007 Glasgow City Council election

2007 Council election: North East^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Gilbert Davidson	2,272	27.1
	SNP	Grant R Thoms	2,098	25.1
	Labour	Gerald Leonard[a]	1,475	17.6
	Labour	Catherine McMaster[b]	1,040	12.4
	Conservative	John France	485	5.8
	Solidarity	Joanne Reilly	350	4.2
	Liberal Democrats	John C MacPherson	228	2.7
	Green	Stewart MacDonald	186	2.2
	Scottish Socialist	Andy McPake	129	1.5
	Independent	George Savage	100	1.2

1. Outgoing councillor for Gartcraig single-member ward.
2. Outgoing councillor for Garthamlock single-member ward.

See also

• Wards of Glasgow