Clydesdale North (ward)

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Clydesdale North
South Lanarkshire
Clydesdale North.svg
Boundary of Clydesdale North in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population14,726 (2021) [1]
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
Created2007 (2007)
Number of councillors3
CouncillorCatherine McClymont (Labour)
CouncillorJulia Marrs (SNP)
CouncillorRichard Elliot-Lockhart (Conservative)
Created from Carstairs/Carnwath
Clyde Valley
Forth
Lanark North
Lanark South
Lesmahagow

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.

Contents

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

ElectionCouncillors
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

Election results

2022 election

Clydesdale North - 3 seats
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
1
Labour Catherine McClymont (incumbent)33.81,920
SNP Julia Marrs (incumbent)33.41,898
Conservative Richard Eliott-Lockhart (incumbent)26.91,530
Independent Ronald Logan4.9277
Independent John Scott1.161
Electorate: 11,889  Valid: 5,686  Spoilt: 68  Quota: 1,422  Turnout: 48.4%  

    Source: [4] [5]

    2017 election

    Clydesdale North - 3 seats
    PartyCandidateFPv%Count
    1
    Conservative Richard Eliott-Lockhart28.21,725
    SNP Julia Marrs26.91,643
    Labour Catherine McClymont (incumbent)26.81,638
    Independent Ed Archer (incumbent)11.1678
    Independent Ronald Logan3.6221
    Scottish Green Ryan Doherty2.0119
    Liberal Democrats Richard Mills1.591
    Electorate: 12,002  Valid: 6,115  Spoilt: 54  Quota: 1,529  Turnout: 51.4%  

      Source: [6] [7]

      2012 election

      Clydesdale North - 3 seats
      PartyCandidateFPv%Count
      123456
      Labour Catherine McClymont27.51,253     
      SNP Vivienne Shaw18.1826830 886 1,318  
      Conservative Patrick Ross-Taylor (incumbent)17.8813815 864 905 927  
      Independent Ed Archer16.0729734 836 874 933 1,406
      SNP George Sutherland (incumbent)11.4520522 551    
      Labour Gordon Muir9.2418511     
      Electorate: 11,747  Valid: 4,559  Spoilt: 92  Quota: 1,140  Turnout: 38.8%  

        Source: [8]

        2007 election

        Clydesdale North - 3 seats
        PartyCandidateFPv%Count
        123456
        SNP George Sutherland24.81,4681,521    
        Labour Mary McNeill [note 1] 20.91,2371,270 1,273 1,483  
        Conservative Patrick Ross-Taylor18.41,0901,130 1,135 1,381 ??? ???
        Labour Brian Reilly [note 2] 17.21,0191,029 1,033 1,231 ???  
        Liberal Democrats Kenny Douglas14.2841927 939    
        Scottish Green Thomas Davidson4.5265     
        Electorate: 11,430  Valid: 5,920  Quota: 1,481  Turnout: 52.7%  

          Source: [9] [10]

          Notes

          1. Returning councillor for Lanark North single-member ward.
          2. Returning councillor for Lanark South single-member ward.

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