GLASGOW'S Southside has seen a shake up of shock losses and new faces in a local election closely fought between Labour and the SNP.

In Pollokshields Ward, the Conservative's David Meikle lost his seat after 15 years, having been first elected in 2007.

Southside Central is saying goodbye to Mhairi Hunter of the SNP, who lost her seat to Elaine Gallagher of the Scottish Greens, after 10 years representing the community.

The result means a third term for Soryia Siddique in the Southside Central ward.

She said: "It was a really busy campaign and through Ramadan and Eid as well but the electorate has spoken.

"I was really overwhelmed with the response,

"There were really big concerns in the area that were very clear about the SNP and Greens policies - there was a real concern about promises that had been made previously by those parties, especially around Govanhill, and they were asking for change, they were asking for their voices to be heard and the electorate has spoken.

"And I want to thank them for putting their faith in me for a third time.

"Initially when I stood as a woman of colour people said I wasn't electable, wearing a hijab, a woman of colour, they said I was going to lose.

"But I've been elected over and over again, I want to thank the constituents who have put their faith in me over and over again.

"And I'll continue to fight for them."

On a 39% turnout, Southside Central constituents voted to make Alexander Belic of the SNP a councillor; Elaine Gallagher, for the Greens; and James Scanlon and Soryia Siddique for Labour.

With a turnout of 48%, the Pollokshields ward appointed Zen Ghani and Norman Macleod of the SNP; Jon Molyneux returns for the Greens; and Hanif Raja of Labour.

Elaine's said local people were fed up of parties campaigning on national issues during a council election campaign.

And that they are sick of talk of independence and Brexit.

She added: "I don't want to start my term in office by criticising anybody but I know that what I saw was lots of love for Soryia Siddique and she's seen as one of the people who there's, she's out on the streets working and I think the view in the Southside, in Govanhill, was that Mhairi wasn't really seen out.

"So while she was very active in the SNP and active on Twitter you didn't really see her actually do things for the people in the tenements who need help with exploitative landlords.

"I think that's what people were voting for, they were voting for quality of life and not independence.

"They were voting for people who said, 'I see the rubbish in the streets and I'm gonna do something about it' rather than voting to kick the Tories out and getindependence.

"So it's local politics. I think a lot of people were tired of Brexit, they were tired of the independence message.

"I am pro-independence but that's a national issue.

"Every party, Labour, SNP, Tories, were talking about national issues. Greens went around knocking on the doors and said, 'Hi, what do you need?'

"In Southside Central we learned that that was waste issues and rather than saying that this was the SNP's fault and Labour's fault, we said, 'Let's get this cleared up and here's how we're going to do it.'""