Clydesdale North
South Lanarkshire
Outline map
Boundary of Clydesdale North in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population14,726 (2021)[1]
Electorate11,889 (2022)
Major settlementsCarluke
Scottish Parliament constituencyClydesdale
Scottish Parliament regionSouth Scotland
UK Parliament constituencyLanark and Hamilton East
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Current ward
Created2007 (2007)
Number of councillors3
CouncillorCatherine McClymont (Labour)
CouncillorJulia Marrs (SNP)
CouncillorRichard Elliot-Lockhart (Conservative)
Created fromCarstairs/Carnwath
Clyde Valley
Forth
Lanark North
Lanark South
Lesmahagow

Clydesdale North 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 14,726 people.

The ward has politically been split between the Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour and the Conservatives. Each party has held one of the three seats since the creation of the ward apart from the period following the 2012 election when independent councillor Ed Archer won a seat from the Conservatives.

Boundaries

The 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 North was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Forth ward, part of the previous Clyde Valley ward as well as all of the former Lanark North and Lanark South wards and a small area from each of the former Carstairs/Carnwath and Lesmahagow wards. Clydesdale North covers an area in the northeast of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with North Lanarkshire Council and West Lothian Council and takes in the town of Lanark plus Kirkfieldbank and a rural area to the northeast including the villages of Forth and Auchengray. The ward also contains the New Lanark UNESCO World Heritage Site.[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

Election Councillors
2007 George Sutherland
(SNP) 		Mary McNeill
(Labour) 		Patrick Ross-Taylor
(Conservative)
2012 Vivienne Shaw
(SNP) 		Catherine McClymont
(Labour) 		Ed Archer
(Ind.)
2017 Julia Marrs
(SNP) 		Richard Eliott-Lockhart
(Conservative)
2022

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1
Labour Catherine McClymont (incumbent) 33.8 1,920
SNP Julia Marrs (incumbent) 33.4 1,898
Conservative Richard Eliott-Lockhart (incumbent) 26.9 1,530
Independent Ronald Logan 4.9 277
Independent John Scott 1.1 61
Electorate: 11,889   Valid: 5,686   Spoilt: 68   Quota: 1,422   Turnout: 48.4%  

Source:[4][5]

2017 election

Main article: 2017 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1
Conservative Richard Eliott-Lockhart 28.2 1,725
SNP Julia Marrs 26.9 1,643
Labour Catherine McClymont (incumbent) 26.8 1,638
Independent Ed Archer (incumbent) 11.1 678
Independent Ronald Logan 3.6 221
Scottish Green Ryan Doherty 2.0 119
Liberal Democrats Richard Mills 1.5 91
Electorate: 12,002   Valid: 6,115   Spoilt: 54   Quota: 1,529   Turnout: 51.4%  

Source:[6][7]

2012 election

Main article: 2012 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Labour Catherine McClymont 27.5 1,253          
SNP Vivienne Shaw 18.1 826 830 886 1,318    
Conservative Patrick Ross-Taylor (incumbent) 17.8 813 815 864 905 927  
Independent Ed Archer 16.0 729 734 836 874 933 1,406
SNP George Sutherland (incumbent) 11.4 520 522 551      
Labour Gordon Muir 9.2 418 511        
Electorate: 11,747   Valid: 4,559   Spoilt: 92   Quota: 1,140   Turnout: 38.8%  

Source:[8]

2007 election

Main article: 2007 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale North - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
SNP George Sutherland 24.8 1,468 1,521        
Labour Mary McNeill[note 1] 20.9 1,237 1,270 1,273 1,483    
Conservative Patrick Ross-Taylor 18.4 1,090 1,130 1,135 1,381 ??? ???
Labour Brian Reilly[note 2] 17.2 1,019 1,029 1,033 1,231 ???  
Liberal Democrats Kenny Douglas 14.2 841 927 939      
Scottish Green Thomas Davidson 4.5 265          
Electorate: 11,430   Valid: 5,920   Quota: 1,481   Turnout: 52.7%  

Source:[9][10]

Notes

  1. ^ Returning councillor for Lanark North single-member ward.
  2. ^ Returning councillor for Lanark South single-member ward.

References

  1. ^ "Clydesdale North". Scottish Government. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Ward 2 Clydesdale North Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  9. ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  10. ^ 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.
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