Cumbernauld East (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Cumbernauld East is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It currently elects four councillors.

It was created in 2007 as Abronhill, Kildrum and the Village, covering those neighbourhoods within the town of Cumbernauld: Abronhill, Kildrum and The Village, returning three members. A 2017 boundary change led to the name being altered to a more general geographic description due to the town centre commercial area and the Seafar neighbourhood (excepting the McGregor Road area) being added, the electorate increasing sufficiently to return an additional councillor. In 2019, the ward had a population of 16,570. ^[2]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Elizabeth Irvine (SNP)		Stevie Grant (Labour)		Tom Johnston (SNP)	3 seats
2012
2017	Claire Barclay (SNP)	Gillian Fannan (Labour)		Partick Hogg (SNP)
2022		Barry McCulloch (Labour)	Adam Smith (SNP)

Election Results

2017 Election

Main article: 2017 North Lanarkshire Council election

Cumbernauld East- 4 seats ^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Tom Johnston	22.68	1,345
	SNP	Claire Barclay	22.12	1,312
	SNP	Paddy Hogg	13.89	824	955	1,058	1,075	1,147	1,165	1,182	1,257
	Labour	Gillian Fannan	13.3	789	793	799	807	832	1,310
	Conservative	David Stark	13.25	786	789	789	793	825	868	896
	Labour	Stevie Grant (incumbent) l	10.52	624	631	636	644	673
	Scottish Green	Anne McCrossan	3.0	178	183	186	209
	Scottish Socialist	Andy Locke	1.23	73	75	75
Electorate: 12,888  Valid: 5,931  Spoilt: 165  Quota: 1,187  Turnout: 6,096 (47.3%)

• On 19 June 2018, SNP Councillor Paddy Hogg of resigned from the party, describing the SNP group as 'toxic'; he thereafter sat as an Independent. ^[4]

2012 Election

Main article: 2012 North Lanarkshire Council election

Abronhill, Kildrum and the Village - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Labour	Stevie Grant (incumbent)	32.2%	1,449
	SNP	Elizabeth Irvine (incumbent)	31.1%	1,399
	SNP	Tom Johnston (incumbent)	26%	1,168
	Cumbernauld Independent Councillors Alliance	Adam Smith	5.4%	241
	Conservative	Ruth Hogg	3.3%	150
	Scottish Socialist	Andy Locke	2%	91
Electorate: 11,251  Valid: 4,498  Spoilt: 88  Quota: 1,125  Turnout: 4,586 (40.76%)

2007 Election

Main article: 2007 North Lanarkshire Council election

Abronhill, Kildrum & The Village

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Stevie Grant	1,939	31.4	1	1
	SNP	Elizabeth Irvine	1,753	28.4	1	1
	SNP	Tom Johnston (incumbent)	1,430	23.1	1	3
	Independent	Anne MacDonald	331	5.4
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Boyle	292	4.7
	Scottish Socialist	Barbara Harvey	165	2.7
	Conservative	Robert Paterson	160	2.6
	Independent	Robert Kelso	109	1.8

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. Electoral Ward: Cumbernauld East Archived 3 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine , Scottish Government Statistics
3. "North Lanarkshire Council - Scottish council elections". Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
4. "NLC councillor quits '˜toxic' SNP". www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk. 19 June 2018. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2021.