Sir Thomas Clarke,is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1982 until 2015,representing Coatbridge,Chryston and Bellshill from 2005 until losing his seat to Philip Boswell of the SNP in the May 2015 general election.
Airdrie and Shotts is a constituency of the UK House of Commons,located in central Scotland within the North Lanarkshire council area. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) at least once every five years using the first-past-the-post system of voting.
Motherwell and Wishaw was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was first created in 1974,mostly from the former Motherwell constituency. In 1983,it was split into two constituencies,Motherwell North and Motherwell South;but these were re-amalgamated in 1997.
Coatbridge and Bellshill is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Airdrie and Shotts is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of North Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to the nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Coatbridge and Chryston is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of North Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Motherwell and Wishaw is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of North Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
James Dempsey was a Scottish Labour Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Coatbridge and Airdrie from 1959 until his death.
Joseph Sullivan was a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1922 to 1924,and from 1926 to 1931.
The 1982 Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 24 June 1982 for the House of Commons constituency of Coatbridge and Airdrie.
Uddingston and Bellshill is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality method of election. It is also one of nine constituencies in the Central Scotland electoral region,which elects seven additional members,in addition to nine constituency MSPs,to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Philip John Boswell is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Coatbridge,Chryston and Bellshill from 2015 to 2017.
2017 Elections to North Lanarkshire Council were held on 4 May 2017,on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election utilised twenty-one wards with 77 Councillors being elected. This represented an increase of 7 seats and 1 additional ward when compared to 2012. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members,using the STV electoral system.
Hugh Lawrence Gaffney is a Scottish Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coatbridge,Chryston and Bellshill from 2017 to 2019. He was a Member of North Lanarkshire Council from 2017 to 2019.
Steven Bonnar is a Scottish National Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Coatbridge,Chryston and Bellshill from 2019 until the seat's abolition in 2024. He has been SNP Environment,Farming,Agriculture and Rural Affairs spokesperson since 2023.
Thorniewood is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It elects three councillors and covers the Viewpark,Tannochside and Birkenshaw areas. Its south-west boundary is the M74 motorway bordering the Bothwell and Uddingston ward of South Lanarkshire.
Mossend and Holytown is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007,it elects three councillors.
Stephanie Callaghan is a Scottish politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Uddingston and Bellshill since May 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),she was a councillor for South Lanarkshire,representing the Hamilton North and East ward from 2016 to 2022.
Meghan Gallacher is a British politician who has served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservatives from 2022 to 2024. She has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region since 2021. Gallacher was a councillor for the Motherwell West ward from 2017 to 2022,serving as the Conservatives party's group leader in the North Lanarkshire Council.
Elections to North Lanarkshire Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections,it was held using single transferable vote (STV) –a form of proportional representation –in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
