Canal (ward)

Canal (Ward 16) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council.^[2] Since its creation in 2007 it has returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system.^[3] For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the boundaries were changed and the ward decreased in population, but continued to return four councillors.

Canal
Canal Ward (2017) within Glasgow
Aerial view looking west over Milton which forms a large proportion of the Canal ward (2012)
Area	14.40 km2 (5.56 sq mi)
Population	25,000 (2015)[1]
• Density	1,736/km2 (4,500/sq mi)
Council area	Glasgow City Council
Lieutenancy area	Glasgow
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GLASGOW
Postcode district	G4, G21, G22, G23
Dialling code	0141
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
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Boundaries

Located in the north of Glasgow, the ward includes Possilpark and Milton as well as Ruchill, Firhill, Hamiltonhill, Parkhouse, Lambhill, Port Dundas and part of Cowlairs, consisting of the streets to the west of the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line railway tracks which form the ward's eastern boundary (the exception is a small section of the Colston neighbourhood on the eastern side of the tracks which is included to Canal ward; however, this area is further divided with everything north of Colston Road belonging to the adjoining town of Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire). The west boundary is the Port Dundas branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which gives the ward its name.^[4]

The 2017 changes added more territory west of the main canal (which was previously the boundary but now lies mostly within the ward), taking in the Cadder neighbourhood from the Maryhill/Kelvin ward, along with a large area around Balmore Road which is almost uninhabited. In contrast, the more densely populated North Kelvinside neighbourhood was reassigned to the Hillhead ward.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Kieran Wild (Greens)		Ellen Hurcombe (Labour)		Jim MacKechnie (Labour)		Billy McAllister (SNP/ Independent)
2012[5]	Chris Kelly (Labour)		Helen Stephen (Labour)
2016
2017[6]		Allan Gow (SNP)	Gary Gray (Labour)	Robert Mooney (Labour)		Jacqueline McLaren (SNP)
2022[7]	Fiona Higgins (Labour)

Election results

2022 election

2022 Glasgow City Council election

Canal − 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	SNP	Allan Gow (incumbent)	25.4	1,470
	Labour	Fiona Higgins	23.5	1,363
	Independent	Brian Land	12.8	746	760	770	779	793	798	831	875	877
	Labour	Robert Mooney (incumbent)	11.9	690	698	851	871	888	899	1,036	1,087	1,089	1,418
	SNP	Jacqueline McLaren (incumbent)	8.8	512	733	739	743	761	976	979	1,172
	Scottish Green	Seonad Mairi Hoy	5.6	322	344	351	367	377	399	410
	Conservative	Maria Wells	5.2	299	300	305	316	321	322
	SNP	Sandra Watson	3.9	226	251	252	256	268
	Alba	Martin Lawson Olu-Osagie	1.7	96	99	100	103
	Liberal Democrats	Scott Simpson	1.2	68	69	74
Electorate: 19,686   Valid: 5,792   Spoilt: 346   Quota: 1,159   Turnout: 31.2%

Source:^[8][9]

2017 election

2017 Glasgow City Council election

Canal – 4 seats^[10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	SNP	Allan Gow	29.93%	1,727
	Labour	Gary Gray	25.54%	1,474
	SNP	Jacqueline McLaren	12.48%	720	1,187
	Labour	Robert Mooney	8.98%	518	526	747	749	755	769	778	792	889	1,015	1,195
	Conservative	Esme Clark	8.84%	510	516	529	529	531	538	556	561	583	636
	Independent	Billy McAllister (incumbent)	5.39%	311	332	343	346	353	359	371	389	449
	Scottish Green	Andrew Smith	4.77%	275	297	304	315	320	339	343	367
	TUSC	Angela McCormick	1.07%	62	69	77	78	84	87	94
	UKIP	Stuart Maskell	1.11%	64	67	73	73	73	74
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Chamberlain	0.97%	56	57	61	62	63
	Independent	Amjad Mirza	0.94%	54	56	60	60
Electorate: 19,137   Valid: 5,771   Spoilt: 327   Quota: 1,155   Turnout: 31.9%

2012 election

2012 Glasgow City Council election

Canal – 4 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Labour	Chris Kelly[a]	29.61%	1,869
	SNP	Billy McAllister (incumbent)[b]	22.83%	1,441
	Labour	Helen Stephen	14.89%	940	1,424
	Scottish Green	Kieran Wild (incumbent)	9.27%	585	596	601	622	623	634	667	724	767	797	846	1,159
	SNP	Gavin Roberts	8.44%	533	547	696	708	709	715	735	747	758	775	813
	Socialist Labour	Jim Berrington	4.29%	271	289	293	310	311	313	342	345	351	372
	Scottish Unionist	Brian Brown	3.91%	247	254	256	261	275	278	290	292	332
	Conservative	Margaret Walker	2.34%	148	151	151	154	157	160	160	184
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Johnston	1.84%	116	119	121	126	126	127	129
	TUSC	Angela McCormick	1.70%	107	113	116	121	122	127
	Glasgow First	Fay Dornan	0.54%	34	36	38	41	43
	Scottish Unionist	Graham Nicholls	0.33%	21	24	25	27
Electorate: 23,679   Valid: 6,312   Spoilt: 255   Quota: 1,263   Turnout: 27.73 %

1. On 21 November 2016, Kelly resigned from the council to take up a politically restricted position at HMRC. No by-election was called due to the resignation's proximity to the May 2017 elections.^[11]
2. McAllister resigned from the SNP and became an independent in April 2016, claiming that party leadership were intolerant to free speech.^[12]

2007 election

2007 Glasgow City Council election

2007 Council election: Canal^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	SNP	Billy McAllister[a]	29.15	2,514
	Labour	Ellen Hurcombe[b]†††††††††††	22.74	1,961
	Labour	Jim MacKechnie[c]	12.23	1,055	1,118	1,247	1,263	1,274	1,288	1,333	1,393	1,692
	Scottish Green	Kieran Wild	8.15	703	793	797	809	819	887	929	1,115	1,157
	Liberal Democrats	Norman Fraser	6.81	587	651	658	673	693	711	814	861	905
	Labour	Haleema Malik[d]	6.71	579	608	631	637	644	653	673	729
	Solidarity	Angela McCormick	4.93	425	544	553	567	584	648	660
	Conservative	David E Ledgerwood	3.92	338	358	361	368	451	453
	Scottish Socialist	Kirsteen Redpath	2.03	175	222	224	231	235
	Scottish Unionist	Brian Brown	2.24	193	214	217	225
	Independent	James Cruickshank	1.09	94	119	120
Electorate: 22,344   Valid: 8,624   Spoilt: 264   Quota: 1,725   Turnout: 39.78%

1. Outgoing councillor for Milton single-member ward.
2. Outgoing councillor for Ashfield single-member ward.
3. Outgoing councillor for North Kelvin single-member ward.
4. Outgoing councillor for Firhill single-member ward.

See also

• Wards of Glasgow