Glasgow South

Glasgow South is a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The current Member of Parliament is Gordon McKee of the Labour Party who gained the seat from Scottish National Party's Stewart McDonald at the 2024 general election.
The constituency was first used in the 2005 general election, and is the successor to Glasgow Cathcart.

Boundaries

2005–2024

Prior to the 2005 general election, the city area was covered by ten constituencies, of which two straddled boundaries with other council areas. The area of the South constituency was covered by the Glasgow Cathcart constituency and parts of the Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Rutherglen and Glasgow Pollok constituencies.
Under the [Fifth periodic review of Palace of Westminster|Westminster constituencies|Fifth Review of UK Parliament constituencies] which came into effect for the 2005 general election, the boundaries were defined in accordance with the ward structure in place on 30 November 2004 as containing the Glasgow City Council wards of Battlefield, Carmunnock, Carnwadric, Castlemilk, Cathcart, Glenwood, King's Park, Langside, Maxwell Park, Mount Florida, Newlands, and Pollokshaws. Further to reviews of local government ward boundaries which came into effect in 2007 and 2017, but did not affect the parliamentary boundaries, the constituency comprised the City of Glasgow Council wards or part wards of: Linn, Newlands/Auldburn, Pollokshields, Langside and Southside Central.

2024–present

Further to the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, there were minor changes to the constituency boundaries, including the transfer of the Pollokshields area to Glasgow South West, offset by the addition of the Toryglen district and a small area to the north of Queen's Park from the abolished constituency of Glasgow Central.
The constituency currently consists of the following wards or part wards of the City of Glasgow:

The whole of Linn ward;
the bulk of Newlands/Auldburn ward - excluding a small area in the south ;
a minority of Pollokshields ward, comprising the area to the south of the railway line between Pollokshaws West, Crossmyloof and Rutherglen stations;
the whole of Langside ward; and
a small part of Southside Central ward, comprising the small area to the north of Queen's Park.

Glasgow South is one of six constituencies covering the Glasgow City council area. All are entirely within the council area. Scottish Parliament constituencies retain the names and boundaries of the older Westminster constituencies.

Constituency profile

While this constituency includes some of Glasgow's few Conservative-voting areas such as Pollokshields and Newlands, other areas such as Langside and Shawlands are SNP, with Labour in second place and the Conservatives far behind. While deprived housing estates typify parts of this constituency, there are still many more affluent residential areas. There is a large Asian community and Scotland's second-largest Jewish community is based around Pollokshields. Around one-third of the residents in this constituency are Roman Catholics.