Margaret Curran (Labour) 19,797 61.6%
John Mason (SNP) 7,957 24.7%
Kevin Ward (LidDem) 1,617 5%
Hamira Khan (Con) 1,453 4.5%
Joe T Finnie (BNP) 677 2.1%
Frances Curran (Scottish Socialist) 454 1.4%
Arthur Thackeray 209 0.6%
Majority 11,840 36.8%
Glasgow East is one of seven constituencies in the city, all held by Labour.
At Holyrood, the equivalent of the Glasgow East constituency - Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Shettleston - are held by Labour and the SNP respectively.
Glasgow City Council is run by a majority Labour administration, with 44 seats out of 79. The SNP controls 27.
The Glasgow East constituency encompasses Celtic Park and is a working class stronghold that would once have been the safest of safe seats for Labour. It has some of the highest levels of deprivation in Britain with an average male life expectancy of 68 - falling to 54 in Calton.
Nearly 40 per cent of adults smoke and there are 25 drug-related deaths a year, on average.
It was briefly won by the SNP in a 2008 by-election triggered by the resignation of Labour MP David Marshall on health grounds.
A fierce battle between Labour's Margaret Curran and the SNP's John Mason ensued, with the seat eventually going to the Nationalists after a recount handed Mason a wafer-thin majority of 365 votes over Curran.
This was wiped out in the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections, when Curran was elected with nearly two thirds of the votes.
However, the 2015 outcome looks less promising for Labour with polls indicating that the Shadow Scottish Secretary's seat is under threat from the SNP.
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