Cardonald (ward)

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Cardonald
Aerial view of Cardonald looking south, 2010
Area	7.27 km2 (2.81 sq mi)
Population	29,639 (2017)[1]
• Density	4,076.9/km2 (10,559/sq mi)
Council area	Glasgow City Council
Lieutenancy area	Glasgow
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GLASGOW
Postcode district	G51, G52, G53
Dialling code	0141
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
List of places UK Scotland Glasgow

Cardonald (Ward 4) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council.^[2] It was created in 2007 as Craigton and returned four council members using the single transferable vote system. The same name and boundaries were used in the 2012 elections. For the 2017 Glasgow City Council election, the name was changed (Craigton is the name of a historic estate and was used as a ward name in past versions of the town authority, but in modern times the urban neighbourhood known by that name did not fall within its boundaries, whereas the whole of the larger Cardonald district did) although the territory and councillor numbers remained the same.

Boundaries[]

Located in the southwest of Glasgow, the ward includes Cardonald as well as Hillington, Halfway, Penilee, Mosspark, Corkerhill, the northern part of Crookston and the northern part of Pollok (the Lyoncross/Templeland area north of the Levern Water, the rest of the district coming under the Greater Pollok ward).

The ethnic makeup of the Cardonald ward using the 2011 census population statistics was:

• 93.8% White Scottish / British / Irish / Other
• 4.1% Asian
• 1.3% Black (Mainly African)
• 0.7% Mixed / Other Ethnic Group

Councillors[]

Election	Councillors
2007		Alistair Watson (Labour)		John Matthew Kerr (Labour)		Ruth Black (Solidarity)		Iris Gibson (SNP)
2012			Jim Torrance (SNP)
2012 by	Alex Wilson (SNP)
2017			Elaine McSporran (SNP)
2017 by		Jim Kavanagh (Labour)

Election Results[]

2007[]

Craigton - 4 seats^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Iris Gibson	24.69	2,729
	Labour	Alistair Watson[a]	18.68	2,065	2,096	2,103	2,132	2,161	2,226
	Labour	John Matthew Kerr	17.37	1,920	1,972	1,992	2,007	2,035	2,123	2,127	2,177
	Solidarity	Ruth Black[b]	11.04	1,220	1,315	1,324	1,382	1,462	1,557	1,559	1,641
	Labour	Gordon McDiamid	12.02	1,328	1,350	1,357	1,371	1,387	1,430	1,435	1,493
	Conservative	Scott Alexander Petty	5.15	569	594	698	702	727	797	798
	Liberal Democrats	Scott R Goghill	4.13	457	500	508	525	631
	Green	Gordon Masterton	2.85	315	366	390	414
	Scottish Socialist	Wullie McGartland	2.03	224	247	256
	Scottish Unionist Party (modern)	Mark Dingwall	2.04	225	234
Electorate: 22,772   Valid: 11,052   Spoilt: 243   Quota: 2,211   Turnout: 49.62%

2012[]

Craigton - 4 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Labour	Matt Kerr (incumbent)	27.8	2,279
	Labour	Alistair Watson (incumbent)	25.6	2,102
	SNP	Iris Gibson (incumbent)	22.9	1,876
	SNP	Jim Torrance	8.5	700	771.8	826.7	1,004.1	1,010.7	1,025.9	1,048.7	1,128.1	1,193.8	1,434.9
	Solidarity	Gail Sheridan	5.8	472	555.3	624.3	638.9	646.9	656.8	688	735.1	772.4
	Conservative	Jayne Morgan	3.6	292	316.7	330.5	333.3	365.7	391.1	411.9	431.5
	Green	Ian Ruffell	2.1	169	209.9	237.8	245	256.7	273.9	314
	Glasgow First	Gordon MacDiarmid	1.8	147	193.8	226.6	233.7	245.3	259.2
	UKIP	Janice MacKay	1.0	86	99.7	107.2	109.7
	Liberal Democrats	Isabel Nelson	0.9	76	103.2	115.5	119.7	123.7
Electorate: 22,948   Valid: 8,199   Spoilt: 124   Quota: 1,640   Turnout: 8,439 (36.77%)

2012 by-election[]

• On 10 June 2015, SNP Cllr Iris Gibson retired due to ill health. A by-election was held on 6 August and was won by the SNP's Alex Wilson.

Craigton By-election (6 August 2015) - 1 Seat^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	SNP	Alex Wilson	54.2%	2,674
	Labour	Kevin O'Donnell	33.3%	1,643
	Conservative	Philip Charles	6.1%	300
	Green	Katie Noble	2.8%	136
	UKIP	Arthur Misty Thackeray	1.9%	95
	Liberal Democrats	Isabel Nelson	1.8%	87
Electorate: 24,119   Valid: 4,935   Spoilt: 71   Quota: 2,468   Turnout: 5,006 (21.64%)

2017[]

Cardonald - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	SNP	Elaine McSporran	20.66%	1,913
	Labour	Matt Kerr (incumbent)	20.45%	1,894
	SNP	Alex Wilson (incumbent)	14.39%	1,333	1,345	1,346	1,350	1,371	1,381	1,455	2,192
	Labour	Alistair Watson (incumbent)†	17.35%	1,607	1,608	1,637	1,655	1,677	1,732	1,782	1,829	1,912
	Conservative	Judy Lockhart	11.68%	1,082	1,082	1,084	1,121	1,129	1,167	1,180	1,189	1,197
	SNP	Joe Murray	8.29%	768	810	811	816	837	847	927
	Green	Alan Sharkey	2.52%	233	234	235	244	268	309
	Liberal Democrats	Isabel Nelson	1.97%	182	182	184	190	196
	Solidarity	Lynn Sheridan	1.41%	131	132	133	141
	UKIP	Robert Barclay	1.27%	118	118	119
Electorate: 22,853   Valid: 9,261   Spoilt: 321   Quota: 1,853   Turnout: 41.9%

2017 by-election[]

• Labour Cllr Alistair Watson died suddenly on 29 June 2017. A by-election was held on 7 September 2017 and was won by Jim Kavanagh of the Scottish Labour Party.

Cardonald By-election (7 September 2017) - 1 Seat^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Jim Kavanagh	48.6	2,614	2,615	2,641	2,683	2,936
	SNP	Alex Mitchell	36.7	1,972	1,972	1,981	2,066	2,101
	Conservative	Thomas Haddow	10.3	552	554	566	574
	Green	John Smith	2.7	147	151	161
	Liberal Democrats	Isabel Nelson	1.5	80	82
	Libertarian	Antony Sammeroff	0.2	12
Electorate: 23,248   Valid: 5,377   Spoilt: 97   Quota: 2,689   Turnout: 23.7%

See also[]

• Wards of Glasgow

References[]

External links[]

• Listed Buildings in Cardonald Ward, Glasgow City at British Listed Buildings