Airdrie North (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Airdrie North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of North Lanarkshire Council. ^[2] It elects four councillors and covers northern and eastern parts of Airdrie (Clarkston, Drumgelloch, Holehills and Thrashbush neighbourhoods) plus the outlying villages of Caldercruix, Wattston, Plains and Glenmavis. Established in 2007, a boundary review in 2017 resulted in a very minor change (the loss of a few streets in Burnfoot). In 2019, the ward's population was 20,137. ^[3]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Sophia Coyle (SNP)		Campbell Cameron (SNP)		Tommy Morgan (Labour)		Jim McGuigan (Labour)
2012	Alan Beveridge (SNP/ Ind.)		Andrew Spowart (Labour)
2017					David Cullen (Conservative)
2022			Henry Emerson Dunbar (Labour)		Richard Alan Sullivan (SNP)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 North Lanarkshire Council election

Airdrie North – 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Sophia Coyle (incumbent)	31.3	1,741
	Independent	Alan Beveridge (incumbent)	22.0	1,223
	Labour	Henry Emerson Dunbar	21.0	1,170
	Conservative	Graeme McGinnigle	10.8	603	605	622	628	638	658	756
	Labour	Peter Gerard Kelly [note 1]	8.3	463	491	517	557	561	586
	SNP	Richard Alan Sullivan	4.8	269	802	826	827	827	838	942	1,025
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Stewart McGeorge	1.3	71	77	85	86	94
	UKIP	Daryl Gardner	0.4	25	28	31	32
Electorate: 15,029  Valid: 5,565  Spoilt: 122  Quota: 1,114  Turnout: 37.8%

Source: ^{[4] [5]}

2017 election

Main article: 2017 North Lanarkshire Council election

Airdrie North - 4 seats ^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Sophia Coyle (incumbent)	22.11	1,320
	Labour	Tommy Morgan (incumbent)	19.17	1,144	1,151	1,155	1,170	1,238
	Independent	Alan Beveridge (incumbent)	18.25	1,084	1,090	1,101	1,121	1,276
	Conservative	David Cullen	18.25	1,084	1,086	1,105	1,117	1,133	1,156	1,159	1,446
	Labour	Andrew Spowart (incumbent)	13.44	798	802	807	815	860	886	918
	SNP	Andy Pettigrew	5.99	356	453	464	501
	Scottish Green	Kyle Davidson	1.52	90	97	100
	UKIP	Daryl Gardner	1.06	63	64
Electorate: 14,789  Valid: 5,939  Spoilt: 154  Quota: 1,188  Turnout: 6,093 (41.2%)

2012 election

Main article: 2012 North Lanarkshire Council election

Airdrie North - 4 seats ^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Tommy Morgan (incumbent)	30.0%	1,552
	SNP	Alan Beveridge	20.3%	1,050
	SNP	Sophia Coyle (incumbent)	20.1%	1,040
	Labour	Andrew Spowart	10.6%	547	954.3	954.9	955.2	1,005.5	1,072.3
	SNP	Patrick Rolink	7.3%	379	402.9	412.7	415.6	432.7
	Independent	Campbell Cameron (incumbent)	6.0%	312	326.6	327.8	328	459.2	493.4
	Conservative	Ashley Baird	5.7%	297	304.6	305	305.2
Electorate: 14,755  Valid: 5,177  Spoilt: 117  Quota: 1,036  Turnout: 5,294 (35.88%)

• SNP councillor Alan Beveridge resigned from the party and became Independent on 10 February 2015 in opposition to the party's 2015 Westminster Election selection procedures. ^[8]

2007 election

Main article: 2007 North Lanarkshire Council election

2007 North Lanarkshire council election: Airdrie North

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Sophia Coyle	1,745	26.3	1	1
	Labour	Tommy Morgan	1,176	17.7	1	10
	SNP	Campbell Cameron	1,110	16.7	1	2
	Labour	Jim McGuigan	767	11.6	1	10
	Labour	Tony Beekman	506	7.6
	Conservative	Dave Stewart	493	7.4
	Independent	Patrick Rolink	442	6.7
	Liberal Democrats	Particia Maguire	229	3.5
	Independent	Alan Love	89	1.3
	Scottish Socialist	Ian Smith	77	1.2

Notes

1. Sitting councillor for Fortissat.

References

1. "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
2. "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
3. Electoral Ward: Airdrie North Archived 17 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine , Scottish Government Statistics
4. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 8 Airdrie North" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
5. "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 8 Airdrie North" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
6. "North Lanarkshire Council - Scottish council elections". Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
7. "North Lanarkshire Council - 3 May 2012 - North Lanarkshire Council - results". Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
8. "Lanarkshire councillors quit in SNP target area". BBC News. 10 February 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.