Boundaries
The constituency covered part of inner city Glasgow, to the south of the River Clyde and in the south-west of the city.
It comprised the Glasgow City Council wards of Gorbals, Govanhill, Hutchesontown and part of Langside. Before the February 1974 general election, the area had formed the major part of the Glasgow Gorbals constituency (Gorbals, Hutchesontown and part of Govanhill wards) and part of Glasgow Cathcart (the rest of Govanhill and Langside wards).
In the redistribution, which took effect at the 1983 general election, the seat was abolished. 675 voters (2.0% of its electorate) were transferred to Glasgow Cathcart, 27,528 electors became part of Glasgow Central constituency (79.7%) and the remaining 6,332 voters (18.4%) were included in the electorate of the Glasgow Rutherglen seat.
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