Glasgow Maryhill
Labour hold

Yet another solid Glasgow Labour seat, set in the north of the city around Possil and Milton, and stretching to older territory on the north west fringes of the inner city at Woodside and north Kelvinside, and with among the 10 highest proportions of council housing in the UK (along with three other Glasgow constituencies), the only curiosity about Maryhill's result in 1997 was that it supplied the best result anywhere for the yogic Natural Law Party, which optimistically contested most of Britain's seats - 651 votes. This was not because of some special devotion to transcendental meditation in Maryhill, but more to the surname of the NLP candidate: Blair.

Ann McKechin has been selected to replace retiring Labour MP Maria Fyfe, only the second case of a woman replacing a retiring female Labour MP, and only the fourth woman to get selected in 36 Labour-held seat selections up to April this year, in her case assisted by an exceptional all-woman shortlist. A solicitor born in 1961, she was educated at Sacred Heart High School, Paisley, Paisley Grammar School, and Strathclyde University. A campaigner for aid and international debt relief, she comes from a traditional West of Scotland Catholic Labour background, with her father for 17 years a Labour councillor and herself currently Women's Officer of Glasgow Kelvin CLP.

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   Thriving Wealthy Achievers, Suburban Areas 0.00% 14.99% 0.03 Affluent Greys, Rural Communities 0.00% 2.13% 0.00 Prosperous Pensioners, Retirement Areas 0.18% 2.49% 7.29 Expanding Affluent Executives, Family Areas 0.41% 4.43% 9.35 Well-Off Workers, Family Areas 1.57% 7.27% 21.57 Rising Affluent Urbanites, Town & City Areas 2.88% 2.56% 112.22 Prosperous Professionals, Metropolitan Areas 1.61% 2.04% 79.09 Better-Off Executives, Inner City Areas 15.83% 3.94% 401.46 Settling Comfortable Middle Agers, Mature Home Owning Areas 0.09% 13.04% 0.71 Skilled Workers, Home Owning Areas 1.38% 12.70% 10.90 Aspiring New Home Owners, Mature Communities 1.54% 8.14% 18.90 White Collar Workers, Better-Off Multi Ethnic Areas 0.97% 4.02% 24.10 Striving Older People, Less Prosperous Areas 2.70% 3.19% 84.80 Council Estate Residents, Better-Off Homes 13.89% 11.31% 122.84 Council Estate Residents, High Unemployment 33.19% 3.06% 1,083.94 Council Estate Residents, Greatest Hardship 20.87% 2.52% 828.64 People in Multi-Ethnic, Low-Income Areas 2.86% 2.10% 136.42 Unclassified Unclassified 0.00% 0.06% 0.00

Area Percent GB Percent Index GB=100   £0-5K 16.92% 9.41% 179.78 £5-10K 23.06% 16.63% 138.64 £10-15K 18.78% 16.58% 113.27 £15-20K 13.06% 13.58% 96.16 £20-25K 8.71% 10.39% 83.83 £25-30K 5.79% 7.77% 74.51 £30-35K 3.89% 5.79% 67.22 £35-40K 2.66% 4.33% 61.39 £40-45K 1.85% 3.27% 56.63 £45-50K 1.31% 2.48% 52.70 £50-55K 0.94% 1.90% 49.42 £55-60K 0.69% 1.47% 46.65 £60-65K 0.51% 1.15% 44.29 £65-70K 0.38% 0.91% 42.27 £70-75K 0.29% 0.72% 40.53 £75-80K 0.22% 0.57% 39.02 £80-85K 0.17% 0.46% 37.71 £85-90K 0.14% 0.37% 36.56 £90-95K 0.11% 0.31% 35.54 £95-100K 0.09% 0.25% 34.65 £100K + 0.42% 1.34% 31.16