Elections to Glasgow City Council were held on 3 May 2012, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. The election was the second using 21 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation.
The election in Glasgow attracted the most attention out of the local elections in Scotland as there were many predictions that the Scottish Labour would lose control of the council due to losses of seats to the Scottish National Party. The Labour administration had suffered from a number of defections of council members to the newly formed Glasgow First party and controversy surrounding Councillor's salaries and contracts. In the end, Labour remained in control, losing just one seat, while the SNP gained five. The Scottish Liberal Democrats were reduced to holding just one seat on the council, the same numbers as the Scottish Conservatives (who retained their solitary seat) and Glasgow First. The Scottish Greens retained five seats on the authority.
After the elections Labour again formed a controlling administration on the City Council.
<small>Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.</small>
|- class= "unsortable" align= "centre" ! rowspan= "2" style= "text-align:left;"|Ward ! % !Seats ! % !Seats ! % !Seats ! % !Seats ! % !Seats ! % !Seats ! % !Seats !rowspan= 2|Total |- class= "unsortable" style= "text-align:center;" !colspan= 2 | Labour !colspan= 2 | SNP !colspan= 2 | Conservative !colspan= 2 | Green !colspan= 2 | Lib Dem !colspan= 2 | Glasgow First ! colspan= "2" | <span>Others</span> |- |align= "left"|Linn |46.04 |2 |29.44 |1 |7.03 |0 |2.73 |0 |12.09 |1 |1.06 |0 |1.61 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Newlands/Auldburn |40.98 |2 |36.11 |1 |10.77 |0 |3.61 |0 |1.56 |0 |0.71 |0 |6.26 |0 |3 |- |align= "left"|Greater Pollok |47.65 |2 |34.03 |2 |3.73 |0 |2.11 |0 |1.12 |0 |8.23 |0 |3.13 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Craigton |53.4 |2 |31.4 |2 |3.6 |0 |2.1 |0 |0.9 |0 |1.8 |0 |6.8 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Govan |32.22 |2 |32.63 |1 |3.16 |0 |3.31 |0 |1.26 |0 |14.46 |1 |12.98 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Pollokshields |24.19 |1 |40.93 |1 |22.15 |1 |8.04 |0 |2.91 |0 |0.57 |0 |1.20 |0 |3 |- |align= "left"|Langside |35.80 |1 |37.61 |1 |7.38 |0 |8.50 |1 |7.25 |0 |1.03 |0 |2.42 |0 |3 |- |align= "left"|Southside Central |44.3 |2 |35.81 |2 |2.50 |0 |6.40 |0 |0.79 |0 |0.0 |0 |10.19 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Calton |54.6 |2 |30 |1 |2.6 |0 |3.0 |0 |0.9 |0 |2.9 |0 |6 |0 |3 |- |align= "left"|Anderston/City |50.3 |2 |29.6 |1 |4.7 |0 |10.5 |1 |1.7 |0 |0.4 |0 |2.9 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Hillhead |29.45 |2 |33.06 |1 |6.54 |0 |17.62 |1 |4.10 |0 |0.22 |0 |9.01 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Partick West |32.1 |1 |33.5 |2 |10.33 |0 |14.71 |1 |5.54 |0 |0.29 |0 |3.53 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Garscadden/Scotstounhill |61.6 |3 |27.1 |1 |2.6 |0 |2.7 |0 |1.1 |0 |0.3 |0 |4.6 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Drumchapel/Anniesland |61.36 |3 |29.26 |1 |3.62 |0 |2.63 |0 |1.96 |0 |0.30 |0 |0.87 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Maryhill/Kelvin |39.6 |2 |34.4 |2 |7.7 |0 |7.3 |0 |9.2 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |1.9 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Canal |44.5 |2 |31.27 |1 |2.34 |0 |9.27 |1 |1.84 |0 |0.54 |0 |10.23 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Springburn |57.7 |2 |30 |1 |2.7 |0 |1.5 |0 |1.1 |0 |0.5 |0 |6.4 |0 |3 |- |align= "left"|East Centre |58.6 |3 |27.7 |1 |4.0 |0 |4.8 |0 |0.9 |0 |0.6 |0 |3.4 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Shettleston |60.5 |3 |30.9 |1 |4.2 |0 |1.5 |0 |0.7 |0 |1.4 |0 |0.9 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|Baillieston |50.8 |2 |37.2 |2 |5.2 |0 |1.8 |0 |0.8 |0 |1.8 |0 |2.4 |0 |4 |- |align= "left"|North East |63.61 |3 |29.65 |1 |3.13 |0 |1.76 |0 |1.13 |0 |0.00 |0 |0.72 |0 |4 |- class= "unsortable" class= "sortbottom" !align= "left"| Total !46.72 !44 !32.57 !27 !5.94 !1 !5.55 !5 !2.93 !1 !1.76 !1 !4.53 !0 !79
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On 23 July 2013 SNP councillor Allison Hunter died from cancer. A by-election was held on 10 October 2013 and was won by Labour's John Kane. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>
On 7 October 2013 Shettleston Labour councillor George Ryan died suddenly. A by-election was held on 5 December 2013 and the seat was retained by Labour's Martin Neill. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>
On 14 May 2015, Green Party councillor Liam Hainey (Langside) resigned his seat for family and health reasons. On the same day, SNP councillors Alison Thewliss (Calton) and Martin Docherty (Anderston/City) resigned their seats after having been elected as MPs for the constituencies of, respectively, Glasgow Central and West Dunbartonshire. Finally, on 10 June 2015, SNP councillor Iris Gibson (Craigton) retired due to ill health. By-elections for all of these were held on 6 August 2015. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>
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On 14 March 2016, Labour councillor Matheson resigned his seat as he had been appointed a visiting professor at Strathclyde University. As a result, a by-election happened on 5 May 2016: it was won by the SNP's Angus Millar. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>
On 25 July 2016, Labour councillor John Kelly died as a result of motor neuron disease. A by-election was held on 6 October 2016 and was won by the SNP's Chris Cunningham. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>