Clydesdale West
South Lanarkshire
Outline map
Boundary of Clydesdale West in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population19,350 (2021)[1]
Electorate15,706 (2022)
Major settlementsCarluke
Scottish Parliament constituencyClydesdale
Scottish Parliament regionSouth Scotland
UK Parliament constituencyLanark and Hamilton East
Current ward
Created2007 (2007)
Number of councillors4
CouncillorEileen Logan (Labour)
CouncillorPoppy Corbett (Conservative)
CouncillorDavid Shearer (SNP)
CouncillorLynsey Hamilton (Labour)
Created fromClyde Valley
Carluke/Crawforddyke
Carluke/Whitehill
Forth
Law/Carluke

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.

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

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 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

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

2022 election

Main article: 2022 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale West - 4 seats
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%  

Source:[4][5]

2017 election

Main article: 2017 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale West - 4 seats
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%  

Source:[6][7]

2012 election

Main article: 2012 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale West - 4 seats
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

Main article: 2007 South Lanarkshire Council election
Clydesdale West - 4 seats
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%  

Source:[10][11]

Notes

  1. ^ Clydesdale West councillor Pat Lee defected from the SNP and joined Solidarity on 27 May 2015.[8]
  2. ^ Returning councillor for Carluke/Whitehill single-member ward.
  3. ^ Returning councillor for Forth single-member ward.
  4. ^ Returning councillor for Law/Carluke single-member ward.
  5. ^ Returning councillor for Clyde Valley single-member ward.

References

  1. ^ "Clydesdale West". 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 1 Clydesdale West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Ward 1 Clydesdale West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Ward 1 Clydesdale West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  7. ^ "Ward 1 Clydesdale West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Councillor Pat Lee joins Solidarity". Facebook. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  10. ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  11. ^ 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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