Pollokshields East was a police burgh in Scotland that had a brief independent existence in the 19th century. The burgh was created within the Govan parish in the county of Renfrewshire in 1880. Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles states that Pollokshields East had a population of 4,360. Along with the neighbouring burgh of Pollokshields, it was officially absorbed into the city of Glasgow in 1891, the two burghs being induced to agree by the promise of taxation concessions.