Glasgow City District Council election, 1974

Elections for the City of Glasgow District Council took place in 1974, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. This was the first election to the City of Glasgow District Council, and saw Labour winning 55 of the Councils 85 seats.

Aggregate results

City of Glasgow District Council election, 1974^[1]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	55				76.4	47.7	149,755
	Conservative	17				23.6	28.8	90,285
	SNP	0				0	19.2	60,198
	Liberal	0				0	2.2	6,786
	Communist	0				0	1.2	3,830
	Independent	0				0	0.4	1,393
	Residents	0				0	0.3	932
	Independent Progressive	0				0	0.2	533
	Scottish Workers Republican Party	0				0	0.0	95

References

↑ City of Glasgow District Council, 1974: Scottish Elections.org.uk

Elections in Glasgow

Glasgow Corporation	1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973

Glasgow City District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992

Strathclyde Regional Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994

Glasgow City Council	1995 1999 2003 2007 2012

General Elections	1997 2001 2005 2010

(1973 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1974 (→ 1975)

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Regional councils (Scotland)	Borders Central Dumfries and Galloway Fife Grampian Highland Lothian Orkney Shetland Strathclyde Tayside Western Isles

See also: UK General election (Feb) UK General election (Oct)

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