Glasgow Govan (UK Parliament Constituency)
Glasgow Govan was a parliamentary constituency in the Govan district of Glasgow. It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 2005, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) elected by the first-past-the-post system.
It was a Conservative-Liberal marginal seat for the first three decades of its existence, before being won by the Labour Party in 1918. It remained a Labour seat for the next 55 years before being seized by the SNP at a 1973 by-election, only to be regained by Labour the following year. The SNP regained the seat at a 1988 by-election, only to lose it again to Labour in 1992. It remained a Labour seat until its abolition 13 years later.
The area which the constituency represented is now covered by Glasgow Central, Glasgow South and Glasgow South West.
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