THE Conservatives have chosen a former Labour candidate to stand in a council by-election in Glasgow.
Faten Hameed will contest the Partick East/Kelvindale seat for the party.
Hameed has stood for the Tories before, in the Hillhead council by-election earlier this year and in the 2022 local elections.
Previously she was a Labour candidate for Glasgow Central in two General Elections, firstly in 2017 and then in 2019.
She left Labour in 2020 and at the time she said: “Labour have given up on defending Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom.”
Labour has selected James Adams for the election.
The candidacy of Hameed mirrors that of Davena Rankin, a former Tory standing for Labour in another by-election in Drumchapel.
The Glasgow Times reported her candidacy in the contest and how Rankin was a Conservative candidate in 2008 Glasgow East by-election.
There are four council by-elections taking place in the city before the end of the year.
The North East seat is vacant after Maureen Burke was elected as Labour MP for the Westminster seat with the same name.
Drumchapel/Anniesland became vacant when Patricia Ferguson also became an MP, for Glasgow West.
Voters will elect a new councillor in Maryhill following Labour councillor, Keiran O’Neill, resigning to take up a job with GMB in London.
And Partick East/Kelvindale will have a by election after SNP councillor Kenny McLean died last month.
The voting will take place on Thursday, November 21 for the three wards: Ward 14, Drumchapel/Anniesland, Ward 15, Maryhill, Ward 2, North East.
The Ward 23, Partick East/Kelvindale by election will take place on Thursday December 5
The current make up of the council is SNP 36, Labour 31, Green 11, Conservative 2, and one independent.
The SNP as the largest party has control of the council, operating as a minority administration.
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