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In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.
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Glasgow and Hillhead
Williams and Jenkins were not at the time MPs, but were elected to the Commons in by-elections at Crosby and Glasgow Hillhead respectively.
He was more successful in 1982, being elected in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election as the MP for a previously Conservative-held seat.
He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway.
* Glasgow Hillhead ( Roy Jenkins of the SDP ), and
To the west lies Whiteinch and to the east, Hillhead and other areas which make up the west end of Glasgow.
In 1937 he was the unsuccessful Scottish National Party candidate in the Glasgow Hillhead by-election.
His father was MP for Glasgow Hillhead ( 1948 – 82 ) but died in 1982, triggering the famous by-election won by Roy Jenkins.
Gray was educated at the Hillhead Primary School, Glasgow, and the High School of Glasgow, before studying history at the University of Glasgow where he graduated MA in 1975.
Having unsuccessfully stood for Stirlingshire in both general elections of 1910, Horne was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Glasgow Hillhead in 1918.
In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982 he received only 5 votes, one of the lowest recorded in a modern British Parliamentary election.
Hillhead (, ) is a district of Glasgow, Scotland.
Hillhead was an independent Police Burgh from 1869, but as Glasgow grew during the nineteenth century it was first swallowed up physically by the growing city, and then administratively in 1891.
Politically there was once a parliamentary constituency entitled Glasgow Hillhead which had been held for many years by the Conservatives ( indeed, after the 1979 general election it was the only Conservative seat left in Glasgow ), but at a by-election in 1982 it was won by the Social Democrat candidate Roy Jenkins.
The area now has a mixed political profile, with the Labour Party, SNP, Greens and Liberal Democrats each gaining one councillor for the Hillhead ward on the City of Glasgow Council in 2007.
Other features of Hillhead include Ashton Lane, Western Baths, Hillhead High School, Glasgow Academy ( a private school ), and the Kelvinbridge, which straddles the River Kelvin which used to form an eastern boundary between Hillhead and Glasgow, until Hillhead's incoporation into the city.
The area is served by Hillhead subway station and Kelvinbridge subway station on the Glasgow Subway system.
Glasgow and by-election
He lost his seat in the 1970 election, but returned as an MP for Glasgow Garscadden at a by-election in 1978.
Sillars eventually joined the SNP, winning the Govan, Glasgow, by-election in 1988 to become an SNP MP.
In both countries, actual by-elections where voters go to the polls to vote for their preferred candidate only take place to fill a vacancy in a constituency seat, such as on the death of Donald Dewar, which resulted in a by-election for the constituency of Glasgow Anniesland.
In May, 2009, at age 78, Swinburne announced he was planning to stand in the Glasgow North East by-election, 2009.
Neil would go on to become the SNP's Publicity Director, and then in charge of the party's policy, as well as a candidate in the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election and candidate in the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency in both the 1992 and 1997 General Elections.
In 1988 Sillars was chosen as the SNP candidate for the Glasgow Govan by-election.
The ILP narrowly held his seat in the Glasgow Bridgeton by-election, 1946 ( against a Labour opponent ).
However all their MPs defected to Labour at various stages in 1947, and the party was roundly defeated at the Glasgow Camlachie by-election, 1948, in a seat they had won easily only three years earlier.
She became active in campaigning for Scottish independence through her membership of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association, and came to prominence in 1967 when she won the watershed Hamilton by-election as the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) candidate.
Margo MacDonald is married to former politician and columnist Jim Sillars, who won the 1988 Glasgow Govan by-election for the SNP.
A committed and vocal supporter of Scottish independence, Margo MacDonald won the Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973, as a Scottish National Party ( SNP ) candidate ; Govan had until then been a Labour stronghold.
At the 1989 Glasgow Central by-election, the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) candidate Alex Neil called himself and the then SNP MP for Govan, Jim Sillars, the " new Clydesiders ".
Orr, by now Rector of the University of Glasgow, was elected as an independent Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the Combined Scottish Universities in a by-election in April 1945, and kept his seat at the general election shortly after.
The party contested only one parliamentary seat, Glasgow Central at the 1989 by-election, when its candidate Bill Kidd received 137 votes ( 0. 5 %).
Stewart was the SNP's sole Westminster representative from 1970 until he was joined by Margo MacDonald who won Glasgow Govan in the by-election of 1973.
Born in Glasgow, Alexander was first elected to parliament as the Labour Party candidate in the Paisley South by-election in 1997.
In the 1979 election, Glasgow bucked the British trend by showing a slight swing from Conservative to Labour and Taylor lost his seat, the only Conservative MP at that election ( other than by-election victors ) to do so.
In 1996 she was the first ever candidate of the newly formed Scottish Socialist Alliance when she contested a Glasgow City Council by-election in the Toryglen ward, an area threatened by the M74 extension plan, and came third with 18 %.
Watson was elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in a 1989 by-election for the Glasgow Central constituency.
He was made the Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead to be able to stand down as an MP on the same date, forcing a by-election in his constituency of Glasgow North East.
The vacancy he left was filled by Jim Sillars of the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) in the notable Glasgow Govan by-election of 1988.
Glasgow and March
Other notable productions in Europe from the 1980s included the March 1986 presentation by the Scottish Opera in Glasgow ; a June 1990 production in Florence by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
* March 10 – John Ogilvie, a Catholic priest, is hanged in Glasgow, Scotland.
* March 16-Fifteen-year-old Scottish boy Kriss Donald abducted, tortured and murdered by Pakistani gang in racially motivated attack in Glasgow.
Workshop rehearsals were held at The Drill Hall in London in March 2008, and a casting call was held in Glasgow in May 2009.
Pinkerton married Joan Carfrae ( a singer ) in Glasgow on 13 March 1842 secretly before moving to America.
* Report and Resolutions of a Public Meeting, Held at Glasgow, on Friday, March 20 1846, in Support of Sir Robert Peel's Suggestions in Reference to Railways – Peel had commented upon the impolity and danger of allowing too much capital to be invested in railways in too short a period.
Ogilvie was sentenced to death by a Glasgow court and hanged on March 10, 1615.
Cockburn married Elizabeth Macdowall ( Glasgow, Lanarkshire, 1 March 1786-1857 ), daughter of James Macdowall and second wife Margaret Jamieson, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 12 March 1811.
In March 1970 the government gave approval to electrification of the northern section between Weaver Junction ( where the route to Liverpool diverges ) and Glasgow, and this was completed on 6 May 1974.
In March 2012, it was announced that the band would perform its first concert in over five years, at Glasgow Green on 20 July, to celebrate their 25th anniversary of the release of their debut album, Popped In, Souled Out.
In Glasgow the production played at the Theatre Royal ( 26-31 March 2012 ).
With over 21 million passenger entries and exits between April 2010 and March 2011, it is the fourth busiest station in the United Kingdom outside London, after Glasgow Central, and Leeds.
* 6 March: 5SC began broadcasting to Glasgow, Scotland.
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay ( 15 March 1851, Glasgow – 20 April 1939 ) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar.
* 3 March — formation of the Scottish Rugby Football Union in a meeting held at Glasgow Academy, Elmbank Street, Glasgow.
* 21 March — inaugural Scottish Cup final is won 2 – 0 by Queen's Park against Clydesdale at Hampden Park, Glasgow.
* 25 March — Wales plays its first international match against Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland winning 4 – 0.
* HMS Galatea ( 1887 ) was an Orlando-class first-class cruiser built in Glasgow, and launched on 10 March 1887 and sold for scrapping on 5 April 1905.
From 1932-36, he lost just five fights ; two of them were points losses to Jimmy Warnock a ' southpaw ' from Northern Ireland, on 2 March 1936 in Belfast and again on 2 June 1937 in front of a home crowd in Glasgow.
The Glasgow Housing Association took ownership of the housing stock from the city council on 7 March 2003, and has begun a £ 96 million clearance and demolition programme to clear and demolish many of the high-rise flats.
In March 1916, as a result of a strike related to the implementation of the dilution agreement, Kirkwood was arrested and deported from Glasgow to Edinburgh, an event which greatly increased his profile.
At the Glasgow Barrowlands gig on Thursday 17 March 2011 Burns announced that a new album was being recorded – hopefully for a 2011 release – before launching into a new song, " Full Steam Backwards ", about the recent banking crisis in the UK.
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