GLASGOW Anniesland has been a battle of the Bills for 16 years now.

Between Labour’s Bill Butler and the SNP’s Bill Kidd – with Conservative Bill Aitken thrown in a couple times – the area has been a fight again and again over which anti-nuke candidate named Bill could win over voters.

Bill Kidd won by just seven votes in the last election and Bill Butler will be hoping to see a Labour resurgence in the north west of Glasgow.

This election has also seen a dock-sized controversy with the BAE shipyards at risk for losing hundreds of jobs, affecting Scotstoun and Govan as both yards await a massive overhaul to create state-of-the-art frigates.

As well as shipyards being a key point of dispute during the independence referendum, their workers are portrayed as the traditional Labour voters who have now migrated to the SNP. 

And in the midst of that, the Tory hopes of overtaking Labour as official opposition may take a hit from their Westminster counterparts being involved in delaying the frigates and axing jobs in the process. All three parties made the issue of shipbuilding jobs a focus of campaigning briefly as Glasgow Anniesland took the national spotlight for a few days late in April.

While both Bills are members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Bill Kidd can boast a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for trying to rid the world of the weapons of mass destruction.

But for some voters, that might not override concerns about cuts to college places, affecting the Anniesland campus of Glasgow Clyde College and others, or concerns about the health service, such as at Gartnavel Hospital – both are within the constituency.

Stretching from Drumchapel and Yoker east to Knightswood, Scotstoun, Jordanhill, Anniesland, Temple and Whiteinch, the area is diverse for property types, income and concerns.

Adam Tomkins is standing for the Scottish Tories in Anniesland, as well as sitting top of the Glasgow list, previously held by their leader Ruth Davidson. The Lib Dems are represented by James Speirs.