{"id":922834,"date":"2026-04-27T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/922834\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:28:28","slug":"how-voters-in-nicola-sturgeons-old-constituency-get-the-best-council-tax-deal-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/922834\/","title":{"rendered":"How voters in Nicola Sturgeon’s old constituency get the best council tax deal in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

In-depth: Glasgow Southside \u2013 home to Govanhill and the Gorbals, as well as trendy Strathbungo and Shawlands \u2013 has the highest percentage of Band A homes in Scotland\"Nicola<\/p>\n

Nicola Sturgeon at Govanhill Carnival in Queen’s Park in 2021(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

The average property price in Glasgow Southside<\/a>, Nicola Sturgeon’s former constituency, is \u00a3165,000. This is bang on the average across the eight Glasgow constituencies.<\/p>\n

It is nowhere near the lowest average price in Scotland, held by Greenock and Inverclyde (\u00a390,000), followed by Cunninghame South and Paisley (both \u00a3110,000). In fact, there are 32 constituencies where homes sell, on average, for less than in Glasgow Southside.<\/p>\n

And yet the figures show that 50.3% of residents in this seat pay Band A council tax<\/a>, the lowest possible rate. This is the highest such figure in Scotland, ahead of Moray (where 44.6% of homes are Band A), Uddingston and Bellshill (44.1%) and Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (40.6%).<\/p>\n

The second highest percentage of Band A payers in Glasgow is in Kelvin, at 33.6% \u2013 although this constituency also somehow has the highest average property price in the city.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Popular pub just five minutes from Glasgow’s trendy Finnieston district up for sale<\/a>READ MORE: The REAL dirty deal ahead of election as Greens dropped six candidates to help the SNP<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, residents in the north and the east of the city \u2013 including some of the most deprived parts of Scotland \u2013 are more likely to pay a higher rate of council tax. Indeed, Shettleston has the highest rate of Band H council taxpayers in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

After a 5.9% hike across the board, the difference for Glaswegians can be substantial. The 2026\/27 council tax charges rise steeply from \u00a31,572.21 (Band A); \u00a31,834.25 (Band B); \u00a32,096.28 (Band C); \u00a32,358.32 (Band D); \u00a33038.77 (Band E); \u00a33,714.49 (Band F); \u00a34,428.12 (Band G); and an eye-watering \u00a35,484.34 (Band H).<\/p>\n

\"Glasgow<\/p>\n

The split of Glasgow’s council tax bands varies dramatically from one constituency to the next(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Council tax valuations are based on April 1991 prices, with newer homes given an estimate based on how much they would’ve been worth 35 years ago. This can make it hard to dispute the valuation and Glasgow City Council state: “The current value of your home may not be a good guide to the appropriate band.”<\/p>\n

But the fact that more than half of council tax payers in one city constituency are paying the lowest possible rate is likely to raise eyebrows across Glasgow.<\/p>\n

All of the seats tend to include both pockets of deprivation as well as more upmarket areas. For example, Glasgow Southside includes the Gorbals, Cessnock and Govanhill but also parts of hipster districts such as Shawlands, Strathbungo and Bellahouston.<\/p>\n

\"City<\/p>\n

City Chambers in George Square, Glasgow(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

And Anniesland, which has the lowest percentage of Band A properties and among the highest percentage of Bands D-G, includes leafy Jordanhill but also Scotstoun, Yoker and Drumchapel.<\/p>\n

Any claims of political bias towards the Nats seem unlikely, given that the SNP has held seven of the eight constituencies since at least 2011 and the last remaining Labour seat (Maryhill and Springburn) fell in 2016.<\/p>\n

So, for now, the question of why some parts of Glasgow appear to be treated so differently by the city council and the Glasgow City Assessor will have to remain a mystery to those of us outside the cloistered corridors of the City Chambers.<\/p>\n

Band A<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Southside: 50.3%<\/li>\n
  2. Kelvin: 33.6%<\/li>\n
  3. Pollok: 29.0%<\/li>\n
  4. Cathcart: 24.7%<\/li>\n
  5. Provan: 23.2%<\/li>\n
  6. Shettleston: 19.6%<\/li>\n
  7. Maryhill and Springburn: 16.6%<\/li>\n
  8. Anniesland: 14.3%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Band B<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Pollok: 35.9%<\/li>\n
    2. Anniesland: 31.1%<\/li>\n
    3. Provan: 27.6%<\/li>\n
    4. Kelvin: 27.5%<\/li>\n
    5. Shettleston: 27%<\/li>\n
    6. Maryhil and Springburn: 27%<\/li>\n
    7. Southside: 16.1%<\/li>\n
    8. Cathcart: 11.9%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Band C<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Maryhill and Springburn: 31.9%<\/li>\n
      2. Shettleston: 22.7%<\/li>\n
      3. Anniesland: 22.6%<\/li>\n
      4. Kelvin: 19.2%<\/li>\n
      5. Cathcart: 19.1%<\/li>\n
      6. Pollok: 18.8%<\/li>\n
      7. Provan: 17.4%<\/li>\n
      8. Southside: 9.5%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Bands D-E<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Cathcart: 33.2%<\/li>\n
        2. Provan: 25.5%<\/li>\n
        3. Anniesland: 23.8%<\/li>\n
        4. Shettleston: 22.5%<\/li>\n
        5. Maryhill and Springburn: 20.9%<\/li>\n
        6. Southside: 17.8%<\/li>\n
        7. Kelvin: 15.6%<\/li>\n
        8. Pollok: 13.2%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Bands F-G<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. Cathcart: 10.8%<\/li>\n
          2. Anniesland: 9.4%<\/li>\n
          3. Shettleston: 7.4%<\/li>\n
          4. Provan: 6.5%<\/li>\n
          5. Southside: 6.3%<\/li>\n
          6. Kelvin: 4.0%<\/li>\n
          7. Maryhill and Springburn: 3.5%<\/li>\n
          8. Pollok: 3.0%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Band H<\/p>\n

              \n
            1. Shettleston: 0.7%<\/li>\n
            2. Anniesland: 0.3%<\/li>\n
            3. Cathcart: 0.3%<\/li>\n
            4. Kelvin: 0.2%<\/li>\n
            5. Southside: 0.1%<\/li>\n
            6. Provan: 0.0%<\/li>\n
            7. Maryhill and Springburn: 0.0%<\/li>\n
            8. Pollok: 0.0%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Glasgow house prices<\/p>\n

                \n
              1. Kelvin: \u00a3230,000<\/li>\n
              2. Cathcart: \u00a3177,000<\/li>\n
              3. Anniesland: \u00a3171,000<\/li>\n
              4. Southside: \u00a3165,000<\/li>\n
              5. Provan: \u00a3157,120<\/li>\n
              6. Maryhill and Springburn: \u00a3145,000<\/li>\n
              7. Shettleston: \u00a3143,888<\/li>\n
              8. Pollok: \u00a3130,500<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Citywide average: \u00a3164,939. Source: Scottish Parliament constituency dashboard<\/p>\n

                For this election, the eight constituencies have been redrawn with Rutherglen and Cambuslang now classed as part of the city region, although residents there are part of South Lanarkshire Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In-depth: Glasgow Southside \u2013 home to Govanhill and the Gorbals, as well as trendy Strathbungo and Shawlands \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,10650,258654,258653,251387,4884,7853,712,1200,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-922834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-glasgow-city-council","11":"tag-glasgow-east-end","12":"tag-glasgow-southside","13":"tag-glasgow-west-end","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-nicola-sturgeon","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-tax","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116479270087696592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}