East Kilbride West (ward)

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East Kilbride West
South Lanarkshire
East Kilbride West.svg
Boundary of East Kilbride West in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population13,737 (2021) [1]
Electorate 13,412 (2023)
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
CouncillorMonique McAdams (Labour)
CouncillorDavid Watson (Independent)
CouncillorKirsty Williams (Labour)
Created from East Mains
Hairmyres/Crosshouse
Lindsay
Mossneuk/Kittoch
Stewartfield
West Mains

East Kilbride West 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 13,737 people.

Contents

The ward has politically been split between the Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour and the Conservatives. Each party had held one of the three seats from the ward's creation until Cllr David Watson resigned from the SNP to become an independent in 2018. The 2022 election saw the SNP regain their 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 East Kilbride West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Stewartfield ward, part of the previous Hairmyres/Crosshouse and Lindsay wards as well as all of the former Mossneuk/Kittoch ward and a small area from each of the former East Mains and West Mains wards. East Kilbride West covers an area in the west of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with Glasgow City Council and East Renfrewshire Council. Its territory covers the parts of East Kilbride on the north-west and western peripheries of the town, including the neighbourhoods of Gardenhall, Hairmyres, Mossneuk, Nerston (the brownfield residential developments, but not the older separate hamlet), Newlandsmuir, Philipshill and Stewartfield, plus the College Milton industrial area and the outlying village of Thorntonhall. [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

YearCouncillors
2007 Graham Simpson
(Conservative)		 Michael McCann
(Labour)		David Watson
(SNP/
Ind.)
2010
by-election		Alan Scott
(Labour)
2012 Janice McGinlay
(Labour)
2017 Ian Harrow
(Conservative)		Monique McAdams
(Labour)
2018
2022 Ali Salamati
(SNP)
2023
by-election		Kirsty Williams
(Labour)

Election results

2023 by-election

East Kilbride West by-election (6 July 2023) - 1 seat
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
123456
Labour Kirsty Williams40.51,3861,392 1,434 1,469 1,500 1,845
Conservative Bill Dorrian26.4904914 919 933 937 965
SNP Robert Gillies22.7778778 785 806 899  
Scottish Green Cameron Eadie3.8131131 139 155   
Independent Kristofer Keane2.999112 123    
Liberal Democrats Jake Stevenson2.48385     
Scottish Family Jonathan Jack Richardson1.242     
Electorate: 13,412  Valid: 3,450  Spoilt: 27  Quota: 1,712  Turnout: 25.7%  

    Source: [4] [5]

    2022 election

    East Kilbride West - 3 seats
    PartyCandidateFPv%Count
    12345678
    Labour Monique McAdams (incumbent)26.51,780       
    Conservative Ian Harrow (incumbent)20.01,3391,358 1,360 1,395 1,426 1,441 1,448  
    Independent David Watson (incumbent)18.61,2481,269 1,270 1,309 1,365 1,458 1,555 2,220
    SNP Craig Sloan15.51,0411,048 1,049 1,053 1,068    
    SNP Ali Salamati15.41,0311,039 1,040 1,051 1,072 1,962  
    Liberal Democrats Huaiquan Zhang2.1142158 158 166     
    Scottish Family Denise Hay1.6110112 121      
    UKIP Yvonne MacKay0.31818       
    Electorate: 13,319  Valid: 6,709  Spoilt: 70  Quota: 1,678  Turnout: 50.9%  

      Source: [6] [7]

      2017 election

      East Kilbride West - 3 seats
      PartyCandidateFPv%Count
      1234567
      Conservative Ian Harrow37.32,363      
      Labour Monique McAdams20.71,3151,529 1,571 1,612   
      SNP David Watson (incumbent) [note 1] 20.51,2981,319 1,322 1,370 1,373 1,427 2,389
      SNP Ali Salamati14.2900914 917 986 988 1,065  
      Liberal Democrats Ewan McRobert3.5223374 397 447 458   
      Scottish Green Billy McLean3.1194216 229     
      UKIP David Mackay0.849140      
      Electorate: 12,151  Valid: 6,342  Spoilt: 74  Quota: 1,586  Turnout: 52.8%  

        Source: [9] [10]

        2012 election

        East Kilbride West - 3 seats
        PartyCandidateFPv%Count
        123456
        Conservative Graham Simpson (incumbent)25.31,197     
        SNP David Watson (incumbent)24.21,1481,150 1,188   
        Labour Janice McGinlay17.0805806 849 849 975 1,741
        Labour Alan Scott (incumbent)16.9800801 823 823 916  
        SNP John Reilly12.2579580 605 607   
        East Kilbride Alliance Brian Jones4.5211213     
        Electorate: 12,092  Valid: 4,740  Spoilt: 44  Quota: 1,186  Turnout: 39.2%  

          Source: [11]

          2010 by-election

          East Kilbride West by-election (28 October 2010) - 1 seat
          PartyCandidateFPv%Count
          123456
          Labour Alan Scott41.4847863 873 892 973 1,297
          SNP Pat McGuire27.9571587 606 641 761  
          Conservative Ian Harrow19.7403427 442 455   
          Scottish Green Raymond Burke4.08285 100    
          East Kilbride Alliance Brian Jones3.57176     
          Liberal Democrats Gordon Smith3.470     
          Electorate: 12,024  Valid: 2,044  Quota: 1,023  Turnout: 17.0%  

            Source: [12]

            2007 election

            East Kilbride West - 3 seats
            PartyCandidateFPv%Count
            1234567
            SNP David Watson [note 2] 30.21,861      
            Labour Michael McCann [note 3] [note 4] 29.41,805      
            Conservative Graham Simpson 14.0860906 919 941 1,019 1,197 ???
            Labour Margaret McCulloch11.2688730 914 956 1,000 1,195  
            Liberal Democrats Pauline Aaron7.1437501 519 615 725   
            East Kilbride Alliance Brian Jones4.2259289 295 348    
            Scottish Green Kitty MacKenzie3.8232283 292     
            Electorate: 10,938  Valid: 6,142  Quota: 1,536  Turnout: 56.7%  

              Source: [13] [14]

              Notes

              1. ↑ On 1 November 2018, East Kilbride West SNP councillor David Watson resigned from the party and became an independent after a legal dispute over an employee grievance. [8]
              2. ↑ Returning councillor for Hairmyres/Crosshouse single-member ward.
              3. ↑ Returning councillor for Mossneuk/Kittoch single-member ward.
              4. ↑ East Kilbride West councillor Michael McCann was elected as MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow in May 2010 and he subsequently resigned his council seat. A by-election, held on 28 October 2010, was won by Labour's Alan Scott.

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              2. ↑ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
              3. ↑ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
              4. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West By-election Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
              5. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West By-election Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
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