Kilsyth is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects three councillors and covers the town of Kilsyth (plus neighbouring Croy) with a population of 13,772 in 2019. [3] Created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 review.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | David Key (SNP) | Francis Griffin (Labour) | Jean Jones (Labour) | |||||
| 2008 by- | Mark Griffin (Labour) | |||||||
| 2012 | Alan Stevenson (SNP) | Heather McVey (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Mark Kerr (SNP) | |||||||
| 2022 | Denis Johnston (SNP) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Jean Jones (incumbent) | 33.7 | 1,496 | |||||||
| SNP | Alan Stevenson (incumbent) | 17.57 | 780 | 740 | 756 | 783 | 785 | 811 | ||
| SNP | Mark Kerr | 17.19 | 763 | 781 | 806 | 847 | 848 | 892 | 1,593 | |
| Labour | Heather McVey (incumbent) | 16.47 | 731 | 1,097 | 1,104 | 1,126 | ||||
| Conservative | Paul Anderson | 11.33 | 503 | 515 | 516 | 524 | 527 | |||
| Scottish Green | Rob Kay | 2.18 | 97 | 102 | 118 | |||||
| Solidarity | Kevin Kane | 1.55 | 69 | 74 | ||||||
| Electorate: 9,657 Valid: 4,439 Spoilt: 119 Quota: 1,110 Turnout: 4,558 (47.2%) | ||||||||||
On Friday 2 December 2022, Ex Cllr Mark John Kerr, was jailed for 6 years and place on the sex offenders register for life, after being found guilty of multiple charges including attempted rape. [6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Jean Jones (incumbent) | 43.0% | 1,544 | |||||
| SNP | Alan Stevenson | 21.5% | 771 | 789.8 | 842.4 | 876.9 | 928.3 | |
| Labour | Heather McVey | 20.2% | 724 | 1,290 | ||||
| SNP | Scott Campbell | 9.0% | 324 | 338.2 | 363.2 | 371.2 | 403.7 | |
| Conservative | David Paterson | 3.7% | 132 | 135.3 | 152.9 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Wullie O'Neill | 2.7% | 98 | 108.9 | 172.7 | 185.4 | ||
| Electorate: 9,302 Valid: 3,593 Spoilt: 98 Quota: 899 Turnout: 3,691 (39.68%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Francis Griffin | 2,037 | 38.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | David Key | 1,480 | 27.8 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Jean Jones | 1,386 | 26.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Conservative | Archie Giggie | 260 | 4.9 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Willie O'Neill | 162 | 3.0 | |||
Labour's Francis Griffin died on 10 November 2007. Mark Griffin held the seat for the party in the resulting by-election on 31 January 2008.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||||
| Labour | Mark Griffin | 63.4 | 1,855 | ||
| SNP | Claire Fyvie | 30.4 | 891 | ||
| Scottish Green | Rob Kay | 2.3 | 66 | ||
| Conservative | Robert Burgess | 1.7 | 50 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | Willie O'Neill | 1.6 | 48 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Douglas | 0.6 | 17 | ||
| Turnout | 2,947 | 32.1 | |||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election, replacing Cumbernauld and Kilsyth and part of Strathkelvin and Bearsden.
Croy is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. A former mining community, Croy is situated south of Kilsyth and north of Cumbernauld, some 13 miles (21 km) from Glasgow and 37 miles (60 km) from Edinburgh on the main railway line between the two cities. Croy has a population of about 1,390.
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.
Elections to South Lanarkshire Council took place on 4 May 2017 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.
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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.
Hamilton North and East 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 15,004 people.
Hamilton West and Earnock is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 18,503 people.
Hamilton South is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 22,032 people.
Cumbernauld East is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It currently elects four councillors.
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Airdrie North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of North Lanarkshire Council. It elects four councillors and covers northern and eastern parts of Airdrie plus the outlying villages of Caldercruix, Wattston, Plains and Glenmavis. Established in 2007, a boundary review in 2017 resulted in a very minor change. In 2019, the ward's population was 20,137.
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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.
Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It elects four councillors and covers much of the town of Motherwell, as well as Craigneuk and Wishawhill in Wishaw, with a population of 18,497 in 2019; created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 national review.
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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.
