AT its next full council meeting Susan Aitken will be nominated as the first SNP chief of Scotland's largest and most totemic local authority.
She will do so as the smaller parties will not band together to put forward a unity candidate. Ms Aitken will hope this will be how politics pans out in the years ahead in Glasgow.
Succeeding in what was in reality its second time of asking, the SNP does not however have the luxury Labour has enjoyed for 40 years, a majority.
Much of the talk as to how a 'City Government' works in practice referred back to Holyrood, in the SNP's first term in office when it was a minority administration (with some occasional support from the Tories) and the current parliament where it has had the backing of the Greens.
"We will be constructive where we need to be and challenge when its required", said the Greens co-convenor Patrick Harvie when asked about a deal. Now with seven councillors, where bigger, national issues to arise in Glasgow, there would certainly be an independence-supporting majority on the city council.
"It's a PR system. It's meant to be multi-party and about cooperation", said Ms Aitken.
The real wild card in Glasgow though is the Tories. A value-for-money dynamic and right-of-centre curveballs will enter the local political scene for the first time since the 1970s.
Buoyed by the same zeal as those who joined the independence crusade in 2014, they have a sense they can make a difference, and certainly nuisances, of themselves.
But they will also become the city council's focal point for what might be coming down the line by way of tighter public spending policies.
"We're talking guys still in their teens, other totally new to politics, sitting in drafty community halls being asked question on a Tuesday in February about the rape clause and cuts. That's the reality", said one prominent SNP figure.
And Labour is unlikely to take its defeat quietly and on the chin. Its legacy issues might rumble for some time while it will continue with its framing of the new administration as mere puppets of the national government in Edinburgh. In 2007 when it lost to the SNP at Holyrood there was an expectation in some quarters Labour would make a prompt return. A decade on, it is now in third place.
Yesterday in Glasgow there was Labour chatter their time in council opposition might be short lived. Some will have heard similar before.
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