Motherwell North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors and covers part of Motherwell (the Cleekhimin, Coursington and Globe neighbourhoods) plus the nearby, adjoining villages of Carfin, Newarthill and most of New Stevenston (other than streets north of the Shotts Line railway tracks), with a combined population of 18,191 in 2019; [3] created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 national review.
Election | Councillors | |||||||
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2007 | Gordon Stewart (SNP) | Peter Nolan (Labour) | Annita McAuley (Labour) | Helen McKenna (Labour) | ||||
2012 | Shahid Farooq (SNP/ Alba) | |||||||
2014 by- | Pat O'Rourke (Labour) | |||||||
2017 | Ann Weir (SNP) | Olivia Carson (Labour) | ||||||
2021 | ||||||||
2022 | Gerry Brennan (SNP) | Anne Thomas (SNP) | Andrew Duffy-Lawson (Labour) | Ayeshah Khan (Labour) |
2017 North Lanarkshire Council election [4]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
SNP | Shahid Farooq (incumbent) | 19.83 | 1,123 | 1,173 | |||||
SNP | Ann Weir | 19.37 | 1,097 | 1,164 | |||||
Labour | Pat O'Rourke (incumbent) | 18.38 | 1,041 | 1,182 | |||||
Labour | Olivia Carson | 16.46 | 932 | 1,018 | 1,057 | 1,072 | 1,084 | 1,582 | |
Conservative | Ashley Baird | 16.03 | 908 | 988 | 989 | 992 | 994 | ||
Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire | Helen McKenna (incumbent) | 9.92 | 562 | ||||||
Electorate: 13,646 Valid: 5,663 Spoilt: 164 Quota: 1,133 Turnout: 5,827 (42.7%) |
2012 North Lanarkshire Council election [5]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Labour | Peter Nolan (incumbent) | 31.1% | 1,548 | |||||||
Labour | Helen McKenna (incumbent) | 18.9% | 941 | 1,329.3 | ||||||
Labour | Annita McAuley (incumbent) | 18.0% | 897 | 965.6 | 1,244.8 | |||||
SNP | Shahid Farooq | 13.9% | 689 | 709.4 | 721.9 | 736.1 | 757.9 | 782.6 | 1,304.8 | |
SNP | Gordon Stewart (incumbent) | 11.5% | 572 | 588.1 | 596.9 | 612.1 | 631.9 | 691.5 | ||
Conservative | Neil Richardson | 4.4% | 217 | 224.1 | 228.1 | 235.8 | 278 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Fraser MacGregor | 2.2% | 109 | 115.1 | 118.3 | 130.2 | ||||
Electorate: 13,573 Valid: 4,973 Spoilt: 87 Quota: 995 Turnout: 5,060 (37.28%) |
Labour councillor Annita McAuley died on 23 October 2013. A by-election was held on 23 January 2014 and the seat was retained by Labour's Pat O'Rourke. [7]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Labour | Pat O'Rourke | 68.2 | 1,719 | |
SNP | Jordan Linden | 20.6 | 520 | |
Conservative | Bob Burgess | 6.9 | 173 | |
UKIP | Neil Wilson | 4.2 | 107 | |
Electorate: Valid: 2,519 Spoilt: 38 Quota: 1,260 Turnout: 2,557 (18.4%) |
2007 North Lanarkshire Council election
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Labour | Peter Nolan | 1,532 | 23.4 | 1 | 1 | |
SNP | Gordon Stewart | 1,480 | 22.6 | 1 | 1 | |
Labour | Helen McKenna | 1,234 | 18.9 | 1 | 2 | |
Labour | Annita McAuley | 1,067 | 16.3 | 1 | 7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stuart Douglas | 465 | 7.1 | |||
Conservative | Neil Richardson | 383 | 5.9 | |||
Independent | Tom Kennedy | 379 | 5.8 |
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