2022 Glasgow City Council election

Glasgow City Local Election Result 2017

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	SNP	39	12	0	12	45.88	40.96	70,239	8.39
	Labour	31	0	13	13	36.47	30.20	51,778	16.52
	Conservative	8	7	0	7	9.41	14.59	25,018	8.65
	Green	7	3	1	2	8.24	8.70	14,925	3.15
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	1	1	0	2.92	5,013	0.01
	Independent	0	0	0		0.00	1.30	2,237	0.40
	UKIP	0	0	0		0.00	0.57	969	0.27
	TUSC	0	0	0		0.00	0.27	464	0.13
	Solidarity	0	0	0		0.00	0.22	373	0.18
	Scottish Socialist	0	0	0		0.00	0.12	202	0.58
	A Better Britain - Unionist Party	0	0	0		0.00	0.09	150	New
	SDP	0	0	0		0.00	0.03	51	New
	Libertarian	0	0	0		0.00	0.03	46	New
Turnout			171,465

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2012. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Since the previous election, several changes in the composition of the council occurred. Most were changes to the political affiliation of councillors including SNP councillors Glenn Elder, Russell Robertson, Michael Cullen and Elspeth Kerr and Green councillor Martin Bartos who resigned from their respective parties to become independents.[3][4][5][6] Labour councillor Anne McTaggart defected and joined the SNP[7] and Conservative councillor Tony Curtis resigned from the party before he was disqualified from the council for not attending a meeting in six months.[8] Labour councillor Jim Coleman was also disqualified for not attending a meeting in six months.[9] SNP councillors Michelle Ferns and John Letford defected to the Alba Party.[10][11][12] Three by-elections were held and resulted in a Labour hold, a Labour gain from Conservative and an SNP gain from Labour.[13][14] Labour councillor Gary Gray died in February 2022 which left a vacancy on the council which would not be filled as it was less than six months before the election.[15]

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