Glasgow election results 2022: SNP pip Labour to win most council seats
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With Maryhill to be announced, both were on 35, short of the 43 - more than half of the 85 Glasgow councillors - needed to form a majority council administration.
But the SNP then won two seats in Maryhill, with Labour winning one, bringing them to a final total of 37, with Labour on 36.
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Hide AdMeanwhile, it was a great day for the Greens, who scored a record haul of 10 councillors.
Susan Aitken, the former Glasgow council leader, has been re-elected to represent Langside - but it was the Greens’ Holly Bruce who came first on first preference votes.
Meanwhile, Elaine Gallagher made history when she was elected as Glasgow’s first trans councillor.
The Tories dropped to just two councillors.
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Former Tory councillor speaks...
Euan Blockley, who represented Linn, was not re-elected. He posted this after the result was announced.
Still to go...
We’ve had 8 results so far - Govan, Shettleston, Langside, Pollokshields, North East, Linn, Hillhead, and Newlands/Auldburn.
There are 23 wards in Glasgow, so we’ve still got 15 to go.
Tribute to former councillor
Robert Mooney, who has been elected to represent the Canal ward, paid tribute to former councillor, Gary Gray, who died in February.
In Canal, Allan Gow and Jacqui McLaren have been elected for the SNP. Mooney and Fiona Higgins for Labour
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