1980 Glasgow Central by-election

UK parliamentary by-election December 2020 November 2013 1980 Glasgow Central by-election parliamentary United Kingdom no 1979 United Kingdom general election 1979 1983 United Kingdom general election 1983 26 June 1980 Glasgow Central constituency Bob McTaggart LAB Labour Party (UK) 4,902 60.8% 11.7 pp Gil Paterson GilPatersonMSP20110510.JPG Scottish National Party 2,122 26.3% 15.2 pp Anna McCurley CON Conservative Party (UK) 707 8.8% 7.6 pp MP Subsequent MP Thomas McMillan Labour Party (UK) Bob McTaggart Labour Party (UK) The 1980 Glasgow Central by-election was a by-election held on 26 June 1980 for the British House of Commons constituency of Glasgow Central, following the death of its sitting MP, Thomas McMillan. On a turnout of 48%, the Labour Party held the seat. Background Labour had held the seat for 30 years, having won it at the 1950 general election. McMillan had been the MP for the seat since 1966.Clark William Labour wins but SNP is on road back https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19800627&printsec=frontpage&hl=en 16 April 2021 33,244 27 June 1980 1Craig F. W. S. British parliamentary Election Results 1950–1970 1971 Political Reference Publications Chichester 0-900178-02-7 609 Candidates This was the last parliamentary by-election in England, Scotland or Wales not contested by an official candidate of either the Liberal Party, the SDP, or their successor party the Liberal Democrats; until the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election. The Social Democrat candidate had no connection to the SDP (which wasn't created until 1981) and achieved the lowest vote for any candidate in a Parliamentary election under universal suffrage, a record later surpassed by the five votes obtained by independent campaigner Bill Boaks in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election of March 1982. Because there was no official candidate, Liberal Party member Graham Watson offered himself as a candidate sponsored by the Scottish Young Liberals. He later became a Member of the European Parliament and leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament. As a seat considered safe for Labour,https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YsJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-aUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4494%2C1849694 You get an award for losing this type of seat William Clark The Glasgow Herald 10 June 1980 6 4 January 2021 there was little surprise when its candidate Bob McTaggart was declared victor, with 60.8% of the votes cast. Both of his closest rivals were later elected to sit in British parliaments: Gil Paterson, representing the Scottish National Party, was elected as a delegate for Central Scotland in the first sitting of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, while Conservative Anna McCurley won the Renfrew West and Inverclyde seat in the general election of 1983. McCurley was at the time a member of Strathclyde Regional Council, to which she had been elected in 1978, and had unsuccessfully contested West Stirlingshire for the Conservatives at the previous general election.The Times Guide to the House of Commons June 1983 1983 Times Books Ltd London 0-7230-0255-X 190 While Labour won, the good performance of the SNP was described by The Glasgow Herald as the "surprise of the night" and the newspaper argued it marked their return "to the political stage" and that "both the major parties... were shaken" by the SNP's share of the vote. Result 1980 Glasgow Central by-electionhttp://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1979.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000609021725/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1979.html dead 9 June 2000 Results of Byelections in the 1979–83 Parliament Boothroyd David 2015-09-19 United Kingdom Election Results Labour Party (UK) Bob McTaggart 4,902 60.8 -11.7 Scottish National Party Gil Paterson 2,122 26.3 +15.2 Conservative Party (UK) Anna McCurley 707 8.8 -7.6 National Front (United Kingdom) John MacKenzie 148 1.8 New Scottish Young Liberal Graham Watson 134 1.7 New Ecology Party David Mellor 45 0.6 New Social Democrat (1979) Donald Kean 10 0.1 New 2,780 34.5 -21.5 8,062 Labour Party (UK) 1979 general election result General election 1979: Glasgow Central Labour Party (UK) Thomas McMillan 8,542 72.5 +8.9 Conservative Party (UK) F. Saleem 1,937 16.4 +3.4 Scottish National Party S. Bird 1,308 11.1 -8.1 6,605 56.0 +11.6 11,787 59.5 -1.4 Labour Party (UK) See also Glasgow Central – the 2005 re-creation of the historic constituency Lists of United Kingdom by-elections United Kingdom by-election records Elections in Scotland References Category:1980 in Scotland Category:1980s elections in Scotland Category:1980 elections in the United Kingdom Category:June 1980 in the United Kingdom Central Category:1980s in Glasgow