Stephen Stewart Glasgow and west of Scotland reporter BBC Scotland news website

It was once home to Red Clydeside. For decades, Glasgow was considered to be one of the country's safest Labour citadels.

Stuart Clay was elected in the Partick West ward of the city

The City Chambers, home to the civic government, was dubbed the Kremlin and the Labour Party had a tight grip on the machinery of power.

But, as the song says, the times they are a-changing. Scotland's largest city made history on Thursday by electing its first Green councillor.

A 24-year-old student will now patrol the corridors of power down at the chambers in George Square after becoming one of the councillors for the Partick West ward.

Stuart Clay will now be one of four other Green councillors to be elected in the city.

Mr Clay received 1,594 votes in the election. His election confirms the prevailing orthodoxy that the introduction of a new voting system would boost the smaller parties.

The Greens also had four other councillor elected. As well as Partick West, the Anderston/City, Southside Central, Canal and Hillhead wards now also have Green councillors.

He said: "We have learned a lot from our colleagues in local government elsewhere in the UK and Europe, and Scots know that the Greens have been a positive influence in parliament too.

The Scottish Green Party gets its first Glasgow city councillor

"Now I have the opportunity to show what we can do in Glasgow and will take that opportunity very seriously.

"Among the issues I want to work on is the controversial plan for the Partick Tesco and the need to make council procurement deliver better value for taxpayers' money by favouring goods and services that offer social and environmental benefits.

"I also hope to encourage the sale of more locally-produced food in the city, including the setting up of additional farmers' markets, to help small businesses and Scottish producers."

The party said that Mr Clay's election was a breakthrough election for the city's Green movement coming four years after the election of Patrick Harvie, Glasgow's first Green politician, to the Scottish Parliament.

Mr Harvie, re-elected Green MSP for Glasgow, said: "The people of Glasgow have voted Green in greater numbers than ever before and I'd like to thank everyone who helped make this happen - candidates, agents, volunteers, members, and of course the voters themselves.