Clydesdale North (ward)

Clydesdale North
Clydesdale North
South Lanarkshire
	Boundary of Clydesdale North in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population	14,726 (2021)
Electorate	11,889 (2022)
Major settlements	Lanark
Scottish Parliament constituency	Clydesdale
Scottish Parliament region	South Scotland
UK Parliament constituency	Hamilton and Clyde Valley ; Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
Current ward
Created	2007
Number of councillors	3
Councillor	Catherine McClymont (Labour)
Councillor	Julia Marrs (SNP)
Councillor	Richard Elliot-Lockhart (Conservative)
Created from	Carstairs/Carnwath ; Clyde Valley ; Forth ; Lanark North ; Lanark South ; Lesmahagow

Last updated June 26, 2024

Clydesdale North is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 14,726 people.

The ward has politically been split between the Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour and the Conservatives. Each party has held one of the three seats since the creation of the ward apart from the period following the 2012 election when independent councillor Ed Archer won a seat from the Conservatives.

Boundaries

The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Clydesdale North was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Forth ward, part of the previous Clyde Valley ward as well as all of the former Lanark North and Lanark South wards and a small area from each of the former Carstairs/Carnwath and Lesmahagow wards. Clydesdale North covers an area in the northeast of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with North Lanarkshire Council and West Lothian Council and takes in the town of Lanark plus Kirkfieldbank and a rural area to the northeast including the villages of Forth and Auchengray. The ward also contains the New Lanark UNESCO World Heritage Site.^[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.^[3]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		George Sutherland (SNP)	Mary McNeill (Labour)	Patrick Ross-Taylor (Conservative)
2012	Vivienne Shaw (SNP)	Catherine McClymont (Labour)	Ed Archer (Ind.)
2017	Julia Marrs (SNP)		Richard Eliott-Lockhart (Conservative)
2022	Julia Marrs (SNP)		Richard Eliott-Lockhart (Conservative)

Election results

2022 election

Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Labour	Catherine McClymont (incumbent)	33.8	1,920
	SNP	Julia Marrs (incumbent)	33.4	1,898
	Conservative	Richard Eliott-Lockhart (incumbent)	26.9	1,530
	Independent	Ronald Logan	4.9	277
	Independent	John Scott	1.1	61
Electorate: 11,889 Valid: 5,686 Spoilt: 68 Quota: 1,422 Turnout: 48.4%

Source:^[4]^[5]

2017 election

Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Conservative	Richard Eliott-Lockhart	28.2	1,725
	SNP	Julia Marrs	26.9	1,643
	Labour	Catherine McClymont (incumbent)	26.8	1,638
	Independent	Ed Archer (incumbent)	11.1	678
	Independent	Ronald Logan	3.6	221
	Scottish Green	Ryan Doherty	2.0	119
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Mills	1.5	91
Electorate: 12,002 Valid: 6,115 Spoilt: 54 Quota: 1,529 Turnout: 51.4%

Source:^[6]^[7]

2012 election

Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Catherine McClymont	27.5	1,253
	SNP	Vivienne Shaw	18.1	826	830	886	1,318
	Conservative	Patrick Ross-Taylor (incumbent)	17.8	813	815	864	905	927
	Independent	Ed Archer	16.0	729	734	836	874	933	1,406
	SNP	George Sutherland (incumbent)	11.4	520	522	551
	Labour	Gordon Muir	9.2	418	511
Electorate: 11,747 Valid: 4,559 Spoilt: 92 Quota: 1,140 Turnout: 38.8%

Source:^[8]

2007 election

Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	George Sutherland	24.8	1,468	1,521
	Labour	Mary McNeill^{[note 1]}	20.9	1,237	1,270	1,273	1,483
	Conservative	Patrick Ross-Taylor	18.4	1,090	1,130	1,135	1,381	???	???
	Labour	Brian Reilly^{[note 2]}	17.2	1,019	1,029	1,033	1,231	???
	Liberal Democrats	Kenny Douglas	14.2	841	927	939
	Scottish Green	Thomas Davidson	4.5	265
Electorate: 11,430 Valid: 5,920 Quota: 1,481 Turnout: 52.7%

Source:^[9]^[10]

Notes

↑ Returning councillor for Lanark North single-member ward.
↑ Returning councillor for Lanark South single-member ward.

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References

↑ "Clydesdale North". Scottish Government. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
↑ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
↑ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
↑ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
↑ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
↑ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
↑ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
↑ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
↑ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire" . Retrieved 19 February 2023.
↑ Bochel, H. M.; Denver, D. T. (2007). Scottish Council Elections 2007 Results and Statistics (PDF). Lincoln: Policy Studies Research Centre, University of Lincoln. ISBN 978-1-874474-36-4 . Retrieved 19 February 2023.

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[9] Returning councillor for Lanark North single-member ward.

[10] Returning councillor for Lanark South single-member ward.

[1] "Clydesdale North". Scottish Government. Retrieved 9 March 2023.

[2] "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2023.

[3] "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2023.

[4] "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.

[5] "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.

[6] "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.

[7] "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.

[2012res-8] "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.

[LEAP-11] Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire" . Retrieved 19 February 2023.

[SCE2007-12] Bochel, H. M.; Denver, D. T. (2007). Scottish Council Elections 2007 Results and Statistics (PDF). Lincoln: Policy Studies Research Centre, University of Lincoln. ISBN 978-1-874474-36-4 . Retrieved 19 February 2023.

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