The election was the first to use 23 new wards, created as a result of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland's 5th Review.

As predicted in the weeks leading up to the election,[2] the Scottish Labour were replaced by the Scottish National Party as the largest party in the council, a first for the SNP and ending Labour's 37-year tenure of control,[3] although the SNP were four seats short of an overall majority.

This included some unexpected victories in wards such as Shettleston and Calton, some of Glasgow's most deprived areas in the east.

The Scottish Greens also made gains to give them their best ever result in Glasgow's local elections, taking seven seats, two more than in 2012, and topping the first-preference vote in Hillhead to the west.

This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.