Glasgow Shettleston was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ...
It took 54% of its voters from the previous GlasgowShettlestonconstituency and 46% from the Glasgow Provan constituency.
In 1997, the addition of much of the Shettlestonconstituency increased the notional majority of the previous Provan MP, Jimmy Wray, to 14,165 (40.7 %) over the SNP.
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