Five councillors in the wards in the south and south west of Glasgow attended more than nine out of ten committee meetings over the last three years.
The Glasgow Times obtained the attendance records of all 85 councillors for the council committees they sit on.
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Today we show the attendance of the 19 councillors who represent five wards in the south/south west of the city. Linn, Newlands/Auldburn, Greater Pollok, Cardonald and Govan.
It covers the eight SNP, seven Labour, two Conservative, one Green and one independent councillors across the wards.
READ MORE: How many meetings did your councillor attend? Rates for the east and north wards of Glasgow
The data shows most attended at least three quarters of their meetings.
The highest attendance rate was recorded by Margaret Morgan, SNP councillor for Linn who was at 96% of council meetings she was required at, which was 54 out of 56.
Others where at 90% or above were Richard Bell, SNP, Govan, at 94%, Josephine Docherty, SNP, Newlands/Auldburn, 92%.
Elaine McSporran, SNP, Cardonald and Malcolm Cunning, Labour, Linn at 90%.
None in the five wards were blow 65%. Only two were under the 70% mark.
Euan Blockley, Conservative, Linn was at 65% but had an attendance rate of 82% for the last two years and Rashid Hussain, Labour, Greater Pollok was at 67% but also was higher at 75% for the last two years.
Ward 2018 2019 2020 Total
Linn
Euan Blockley Con 17/37 13/16 20/24 65%
Malcolm Cunning Lab 50/55 49/52 32/38 90%
Glenn Elder Ind 39/43 32/41 32/37 71%
Margaret Morgan SNP 19/21 20/20 15/15 96%
Newlands/
Auldburn
Stephen Curran Lab 22/27 19/27 22/23 82%
Josephine Docherty SNP 26/27 24/27 16/18 92%
Kyle Thornton Con 13/14 19/29 21/27 76%
Greater Pollok
Saqib Ahmed Lab 19/23 20/23 15/16 87%
Rashid Hussain Lab 8/16 10/16 12/13 67%
David McDonald SNP 28/31 25/28 26/30 89%
Rhiannon Spear SNP 62/80 51/82 41/56 71%
Cardonald
Jim Kavanagh Lab 19/20 13/19 13/16 81%
Matt Kerr Lab 30/36 27/30 9/17 79%
Elaine McSporran SNP 21/23 27/32 22/22 91%
Alex Wilson SNP 49/60 50/61 28/33 82%
Govan
Richard Bell SNP 23/25 27/29 25/26 94%
Stephen Dornan SNP 21/27 20/27 15/20 76%
John Kane Lab 73/78 68/79 41/51 88%
Allan Young Gr 18/19 18/23 15/16 88%
Tomorrow: Calton, Langside, Pollokshields, Southside Central.
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