James Hood was a Scottish Labour Party politician,who served as a Member of Parliament from 1987 until being defeated in 2015. He represented the Clydesdale constituency until 2005,and the Lanark and Hamilton East constituency thereafter. Hood,a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) trade union official during the miners' strike of 1984–85,remained a backbencher throughout his parliamentary career.
Lanark and Hamilton East was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,which was first used at the 2005 general election. It covered parts of the former Clydesdale,Hamilton North and Bellshill and Hamilton South constituencies,and it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Rutherglen and Hamilton West was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,which was created for the 2005 general election. It covered almost all of the former constituency of Glasgow Rutherglen and most of the former constituency of Hamilton South,and it elected one member of parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system.
East Kilbride,Strathaven and Lesmahagow was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,which was first used in the general election of 2005. It replaced East Kilbride and some of Clydesdale,and it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
South Lanarkshire Council is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. The council has its headquarters in Hamilton,has 16,000 employees,and an annual budget of almost £1bn. The large and varied geographical territory takes in rural and upland areas,market towns such as Lanark,Strathaven and Carluke,the urban burghs of Rutherglen,Cambuslang,and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town. The area was formed in 1996 from the areas of Clydesdale,Hamilton and East Kilbride districts,and some outer areas of Glasgow district;all were previously within the Strathclyde region from 1975 but in historic Lanarkshire prior to that.
South Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1868 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
Elections to South Lanarkshire Council took place on 3 May 2012 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections,it was held using single transferable vote (STV) –a form of proportional representation –in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
Mhairi Black is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the House of Commons from 2022 to 2024,and as a Member of Parliament for Paisley and Renfrewshire South from 2015 to 2024.
Alan Brown is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 2015 until 2024. Brown previously served as the SNP spokesperson on Energy Security and Net Zero (2022–2023),Energy and Climate Change (2020–2022),Transport (2017–2020) and Infrastructure and Energy (2017–2018) in the House of Commons.
Philippa Whitford is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and a breast surgeon. Originally from Northern Ireland,she was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Ayrshire in May 2015 and was re-elected in 2017 and 2019. Whitford stood down at the 2024 general election. She previously served as the SNP Spokesperson for Scotland from December 2022 to September 2023.
Kirsty Blackman is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen North since 2015.
Alison Emily Thewliss is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Central from the May 2015 general election until 2024.
Patrick John Grady is a Scottish politician. He was elected at the 2015 UK general election as the Scottish National Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North. He was re-elected in 2017 and in 2019. Following the dissolution of parliament in advance of the 2024,he is no longer a Member of Parliament.
Kirsten Frances Oswald is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician first elected as the Member of the UK Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire in 2015;she was unseated at the 2017 snap election but subsequently re-elected at the 2019 election. She served as the deputy leader of the SNP parliamentary party from 2020 to 2022,as well as Chairman and Business Convener of the Scottish National Party from 2018 to 2023.
Hannah Mary Bardell is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 2015 until 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she served as its spokesperson for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport from 2018 to 2019.
Joanna Catherine Cherry is a Scottish politician and lawyer who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South West from 2015 until 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she was the party's Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in the House of Commons from 2015 to 2021.
Marion Fellows is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. From 2015 until 2024,she was the Member of Parliament for Motherwell and Wishaw. Between June 2017 and January 2020 she was the SNP spokesperson for Small Business,Enterprise and Innovations.
Deidre Leanne Brock is an Australian-born Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh North and Leith from 2015 to 2024. She is the first SNP representative to hold the seat at either a Westminster or Scottish Parliament level. Brock was the SNP House of Commons Business Spokesperson from December 2022 to July 2024.
Gerard Killen is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rutherglen and Hamilton West from 2017 to 2019.
Hamilton South is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007,the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 22,032 people.
