East Kilbride Central North (ward)

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East Kilbride Central North
South Lanarkshire
East Kilbride Central North.svg
Boundary of East Kilbride Central North in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population16,547 (2021) [1]
Electorate 12,861 (2022)
Major settlements East Kilbride (part of)
Scottish Parliament constituency East Kilbride
Scottish Parliament region Central Scotland
UK Parliament constituency East Kilbride and Strathaven
Current ward
Created2007 (2007)
Number of councillors3
CouncillorGrant Ferguson (SNP)
CouncillorJoe Fagan (Labour)
CouncillorHugh McDonald (SNP)
Created from Blacklaw
Calderglen
East Mains
Heatheryknowe
Maxwellton
West Mains

East Kilbride Central North is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward initially elected four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 16,547 people. Following a boundary review, the ward has elected three councillors since 2017.

Contents

The ward has produced strong results for both Labour and the Scottish National Party (SNP) with the parties initially sharing the seats evenly. However, since 2017, the ward has become an SNP stronghold with the party holding two of the three seats.

Following the 2022 election, the ward has been the seat of the leader of South Lanarkshire Council, Cllr Joe Fagan. [2]

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 East Kilbride Central North was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former East Mains and West Mains wards as well as part of the former Heatheryknowe and Calderglen wards and all of the former Blacklaw and Maxwellton wards. As the name suggests, East Kilbride Central North covers the parts of East Kilbride just north of the town centre with the southern boundary being the Queensway (A726) dual carriageway, including the central retail and administrative area itself as well as the neighbourhoods of East Mains, Kirktonholme, the Village and West Mains, most of St Leonards (west of High Common Road) and part of Calderwood (Maxwellton/west of Calderwood Road). [3] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, a few streets in the east of the ward between Calderwood Road, Morrishall Road and Hunter Primary School were transferred to the East Kilbride East ward. Although this only had a small effect on the electorate, it caused the loss of one seat from the original four to balance with other wards with similar populations. [4]

Councillors

ElectionCouncillors
2007 Alice Marie Mitchell
(Labour)		Sheena Wardhaugh
(SNP)		Anne Maggs
(SNP)		Christopher Thompson
(Labour)
2012
2017 Joe Fagan
(Labour)		Hugh MacDonald
(SNP)
2019 by-electionGrant Ferguson
(SNP)
2022

Election results

2022 election

East Kilbride Central North - 3 seats
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
1234567
SNP Grant Ferguson (incumbent)33.11,889      
Labour Joe Fagan (incumbent)30.01,709      
Conservative Alex Brown12.2694695 711 746 769 914  
SNP Hugh MacDonald (incumbent)10.76121,027 1,044 1,068 1,140 1,254 1,386
Labour Tam Mitchell7.4420427 632 692 749   
Independent Kristofer Keane3.4194202 210 249    
Liberal Democrats Tom Bryson3.3187196 209     
Electorate: 12,861  Valid: 5,705  Spoilt: 154  Quota: 1,427  Turnout: 45.6%  

    Source: [5] [6]

    2019 by-election

    East Kilbride Central North by-election (29 August 2019) - 1 seat
    PartyCandidateFPv%Count
    12345
    SNP Grant Ferguson46.51,5821,582 1,588 1,650 1,743
    Labour Kirsty Williams20.3690692 695 715 837
    Conservative Graham Fisher14.6498499 513 519 606
    Liberal Democrats Paul McGarry12.4422424 428 456  
    Scottish Green Antony Lee4.5153154 159   
    UKIP David MacKay1.44850    
    Scottish Libertarian Stephen McNamara0.412    
    Electorate: 12,960  Valid: 3,405  Spoilt: 51  Quota: 1,703  Turnout: 26.7%  

      Source: [7] [8]

      2017 election

      East Kilbride Central North - 3 seats
      PartyCandidateFPv%Count
      1234567
      SNP Hugh MacDonald22.21,3741,389 1,398 1,452 1,488 1,519 1,618
      SNP Sheena Wardhaugh (incumbent) [note 1] 20.11,2431,249 1,261 1,351 1,390 1,420 1,482
      Labour Joe Fagan18.81,1631,173 1,198 1,229 1,873  
      Conservative Darren Clyde18.81,1631,165 1,188 1,209 1,258 1,319  
      Labour Alice Marie Mitchell (incumbent)12.8795799 827 854    
      Scottish Green James Thornbury3.9239254 294     
      Liberal Democrats John Rintoul2.5153157      
      Solidarity Stuart McLean1.169      
      Electorate: 13,113  Valid: 6,199  Spoilt: 174  Quota: 1,550  Turnout: 48.6%  

        Source: [11] [12]

        2012 election

        East Kilbride Central North - 4 seats
        PartyCandidateFPv%Count
        12345678
        SNP Anne Maggs (incumbent)29.31,733       
        Labour Alice Marie Mitchell (incumbent)22.81,348       
        Labour Christopher Thompson (incumbent)18.01,0651,101 1,231     
        SNP Sheena Wardhaugh (incumbent)9.3549973 978 984 994 1,065 1,115 1,374
        Scottish Green Kirsten Robb8.7516561 571 580 599 715 820  
        Conservative William Chalmers6.3374378 381 383 386 412   
        East Kilbride Alliance Clare Keane4.7277287 291 293 303    
        Solidarity Richard Foster0.95153 54 55     
        Electorate: 14,005  Valid: 5,913  Spoilt: 104  Quota: 1,183  Turnout: 42.2%  

          Source: [13]

          2007 election

          East Kilbride Central North - 4 seats
          PartyCandidateFPv%Count
          12345678910
          SNP Anne Maggs [note 2] 28.32,248         
          Labour Alice Mitchell [note 3] 23.91,899         
          Labour Christopher Thompson [note 4] 15.51,2291,269 1,456 1,477 1,482 1,513 1,617   
          Conservative Isobel Perratt6.9545563 571 575 584 618 679 681   
          SNP Sheena Wardhaugh6.8538927 937 969 982 1,059 1,149 1,154 1,264 ???
          Scottish Green Raymond Burke6.3500542 555 594 610 690 817 821 963  
          Liberal Democrats Gordon Smith5.6446480 499 520 524 570     
          East Kilbride Alliance Clare Keane2.9227242 250 259 383      
          East Kilbride Alliance Tim Gingell2.1169179 183 185       
          Scottish Socialist Catherine Pedersen1.6130149 154        
          Electorate: 14,310  Valid: 7,931  Quota: 1,587  Turnout: 57.0%  

            Source: [14] [15]

            Notes

            1. ↑ East Kilbride Central North SNP councillor Sheena Wardhaugh resigned from the party and became an independent on 25 May 2017. [9] On 2 June 2019, Sheena Wardhaugh died and a by-election was held on 29 August. [10]
            2. ↑ Returning councillor for Blacklaw single-member ward.
            3. ↑ Returning councillor for East Mains single-member ward.
            4. ↑ Returning councillor for Maxwellton single-member ward.

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