Clydesdale West 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 19,350 people.
| Clydesdale West | |
|---|---|
| South Lanarkshire | |
 Boundary of Clydesdale West in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017. | |
| Population | 19,350 (2021)[1] |
| Electorate | 15,706 (2022) |
| Major settlements | Carluke |
| Scottish Parliament constituency | Clydesdale |
| Scottish Parliament region | South Scotland |
| UK Parliament constituency | Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke Hamilton and Clyde Valley |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Number of councillors | 4 |
| Councillor | Eileen Logan (Labour) |
| Councillor | Poppy Corbett (Conservative) |
| Councillor | David Shearer (SNP) |
| Councillor | Lynsey Hamilton (Labour) |
| Created from | Clyde Valley Carluke/Crawforddyke Carluke/Whitehill Forth Law/Carluke |
The ward has produced strong results for both the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Labour. Initially, the SNP held half the seats in the ward before swinging towards Labour which has held half the seats since 2012.
Boundaries
editThe 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 Clydesdale West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained part of the former Clyde Valley and Forth wards as well as all of the former Carluke/Crawforddyke, Carluke/Whitehill and Law/Carluke wards. Clydesdale West covers an area in the north of South Lanarkshire next to its boundary with North Lanarkshire Council and takes in a rural area surrounding the town of Carluke including the villages of Braidwood, Crossford and Law.[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
edit| Year | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Ian Gray (SNP) |
David Shearer (SNP) |
Eileen Logan (Labour) |
Alex Allison (Conservative) | ||||
| 2012 | Pat Lee (SNP/Solidarity) |
Lynsey Hamilton (Labour) | ||||||
| 2015 | ||||||||
| 2017 | Poppy Corbett (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
Election results
edit2022 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Eileen Logan (incumbent) | 23.6 | 1,743 | ||||||
| Conservative | Poppy Corbett (incumbent) | 23.6 | 1,742 | ||||||
| SNP | David Shearer (incumbent) | 22.7 | 1,678 | ||||||
| Labour | Lynsey Hamilton (incumbent) | 14.6 | 1,082 | 1,264 | 1,355 | 1,361 | 1,398 | 1,528 | |
| SNP | Andrew Wilson | 10.0 | 737 | 751 | 756 | 936 | 1,035 | 1,060 | |
| Scottish Green | Neil Barton | 3.1 | 230 | 236 | 243 | 249 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Charles Meehan | 2.4 | 181 | 200 | 258 | 260 | 310 | ||
| Electorate: 15,706 Valid: 7,393 Spoilt: 122 Quota: 1,479 Turnout: 47.8% | |||||||||
2017 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Poppy Corbett | 31.2 | 2,264 | ||||||||
| SNP | David Shearer (incumbent) | 22.2 | 1,611 | ||||||||
| Labour | Eileen Logan (incumbent) | 21.6 | 1,566 | ||||||||
| Labour | Lynsey Hamilton (incumbent) | 11.6 | 839 | 1,049 | 1,055 | 1,133 | 1,160 | 1,192 | 1,322 | 1,616 | |
| SNP | Chris Travis | 8.4 | 610 | 627 | 763 | 770 | 784 | 831 | 867 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Charles Meehan | 2.0 | 148 | 314 | 316 | 323 | 335 | 372 | |||
| Scottish Green | Mandy Meikle | 1.6 | 118 | 147 | 152 | 154 | 172 | ||||
| Solidarity | Pat Lee (incumbent) | 1.2 | 90 | 107 | 110 | 112 | |||||
| Electorate: 15,183 Valid: 7,246 Spoilt: 133 Quota: 1,450 Turnout: 48.6% | |||||||||||
2012 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | Eileen Logan (incumbent) | 29.1 | 1,687 | |||||||||
| SNP | David Shearer (incumbent) | 19.8 | 1,149 | 1,180 | ||||||||
| SNP | Pat Lee[note 1] | 15.9 | 921 | 944 | 960 | 977 | 989 | 1,000 | 1,023 | 1,094 | 1,248 | |
| Labour | Lynsey Hamilton | 15.1 | 877 | 1,280 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Alex Allison (incumbent) | 11.1 | 644 | 653 | 662 | 662 | 674 | 700 | 728 | 799 | ||
| Independent | Duncan McFarlane | 4.3 | 246 | 258 | 269 | 269 | 284 | 317 | 353 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Charles Meehan | 2.2 | 126 | 136 | 143 | 144 | 149 | 150 | ||||
| UKIP | Neil MacLeod | 1.4 | 78 | 82 | 86 | 86 | 96 | |||||
| Scottish Christian | Robin Mawhinney | 1.1 | 65 | 69 | 74 | 74 | ||||||
| Electorate: 14,923 Valid: 5,793 Spoilt: 92 Quota: 1,159 Turnout: 38.8% | ||||||||||||
Source:[9]
2007 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Eileen Logan[note 2] | 33.5 | 2,549 | |||||||
| SNP | Ian Gray[note 3] | 25.6 | 1,948 | |||||||
| Conservative | Alex Allison | 12.9 | 984 | 1,025 | 1,050 | ??? | 1,126 | 1,259 | ??? | |
| SNP | David Shearer[note 4] | 12.2 | 925 | 1,005 | 1,279 | ??? | 1,360 | 1,504 | ??? | |
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Meehan | 6.4 | 490 | 566 | 602 | ??? | 707 | |||
| Labour | Betty Rush[note 5] | 4.7 | 359 | 933 | 949 | ??? | 989 | 1,131 | ||
| Scottish Christian | Robin Mawhinney | 2.4 | 180 | 198 | 207 | ??? | ||||
| Scottish Green | Ruth Thomas | 2.3 | 174 | 193 | 203 | |||||
| Electorate: 14,775 Valid: 7,645 Quota: 1,522 Turnout: 52.4% | ||||||||||
Notes
edit- ^ Clydesdale West councillor Pat Lee defected from the SNP and joined Solidarity on 27 May 2015.[8]
- ^ Returning councillor for Carluke/Whitehill single-member ward.
- ^ Returning councillor for Forth single-member ward.
- ^ Returning councillor for Law/Carluke single-member ward.
- ^ Returning councillor for Clyde Valley single-member ward.
References
edit- ^ "Clydesdale West". Scottish Government. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ "Ward 1 Clydesdale West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ "Ward 1 Clydesdale West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ "Ward 1 Clydesdale West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "Ward 1 Clydesdale West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "Councillor Pat Lee joins Solidarity". Facebook. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ Bochel, H. M.; Denver, D. T. (2007). Scottish Council Elections 2007 Results and Statistics (PDF). Lincoln: Policy Studies Research Centre, University of Lincoln. ISBN 978-1-874474-36-4. Retrieved 19 February 2023.