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.
Sir Alan Campbell is a British politician who has served as Chief Whip of the House of Commons and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party,he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tynemouth since 1997.
David George Hanson,Baron Hanson of Flint,,is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Minister of State for the Home Office since July 2024. He previously served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Delyn from 1992 to 2019. He held several ministerial offices in the Blair and Brown governments,serving in the Home Office,the Ministry of Justice,the Wales Office,the Northern Ireland Office and the Whips' Office. Hanson sat on Ed Miliband's opposition front bench as a shadow treasury minister,and later the shadow immigration minister.
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.
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 Scottish Affairs Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure,administration and policy of the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland,and relations with the Scottish Parliament. It also looks at the administration and expenditure of the Advocate General for Scotland.
The 1982 Coatbridge and Airdrie by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 24 June 1982 for the British House of Commons constituency of Coatbridge and Airdrie.
Alison McGovern is a British Labour politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead since 2024,and previously Wirral South since 2010. She has served as Minister of State for Employment since July 2024.
John Joseph McNally is a Scottish politician who was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk in 2015,serving until he stood down in 2024. He is a member of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
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.
Marion Fellows is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. From 2015 until 2024,she was the Member of Parliament for Motherwell and Wishaw. Between June 2017 and January 2020 she was the SNP spokesperson for Small Business,Enterprise and Innovations.
Anna Rhiannon McMorrin is a Welsh politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff North since 2017. A member of Welsh Labour,she has served as Assistant Government Whip since 2024.
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.
Ayesha Yousef Hazarika,Baroness Hazarika,is a Scottish broadcaster,journalist and political commentator,and former political adviser to senior Labour Party politicians.
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.
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.
Alexander Forbes McIntyre is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Gloucester since 2024.
