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The Catholic Union of Glasgow was formed in 1884-1885, partly through the efforts of James Brand, the local correspondent in Glasgow of the Catholic Union of Great Britain. The Archbishop of Glasgow was the President of the Union. The Catholic Union of Glasgow and neighbourhood covered the civil parishes of Glasgow, Govan and Barony, and later Eastwood. Its effectiveness in Lanarkshire was somewhat more limited. To fulfil its stated object of 'the protection and advancement of Catholic interests congregational and general', it paid particular attention to elections to School, and Parish, Boards. By the 1920's alterations in the franchise and in the voting system, together with more general changes on electoral behaviour, meant that, in general, the Catholic Union was much less able to organise the Catholic vote, and Catholic voters were focussing on mainstream politics with less concentration on specifically Catholic issues. From 1932 onwards, the Catholic Union continues to be listed in the Catholic Church yearbooks it had noticeably declined by 1945 and has now, for all practical purposes, disappeared.
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