East Kilbride Central North (ward)
East Kilbride Central North is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council.[2][3] Created in 2007, it currently elects three councillors. As the name suggests, its territory covers the parts of East Kilbride just north of the town centre with the southern boundary being the Queensway (A726) dual carriageway, including the central retail and administrative area itself as well as the neighbourhoods of East Mains, Kirktonholme, the Village and West Mains, most of St Leonards (west of High Common Road) and part of Calderwood (Maxwellton/west of Calderwood Road). A 2017 national review removed a few streets in the east of the ward (between Calderwood Road, Morrishall Road and Hunter Primary School) which had only a small effect on the electorate but caused the loss of one seat from the original four to balance with other wards with similar populations but only three seats. In 2019, the population was 16,799.[4]
Councillors[]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Christopher Thompson (Labour) |
Alice Marie Mitchell (Labour) |
Sheena Wardhaugh (SNP) |
Anne Maggs (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2017 | 3 seats | Joe Fagan (Labour) |
Hugh MacDonald (SNP) | |||||
| 2019 by- | Grant Ferguson (SNP) | |||||||
Election Results[]
2017 Election[]
2017 South Lanarkshire Council election[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Hugh MacDonald | 22.16% | 1,374 | 1,389 | 1,398 | 1,452 | 1,488 | 1,519 | 1,618 | |
| SNP | Sheena Wardhaugh (incumbent)[A] | 20.05% | 1,243 | 1,249 | 1,261 | 1,351 | 1,390 | 1,420 | 1,482 | |
| Labour | Joe Fagan | 18.76% | 1,163 | 1,173 | 1,198 | 1,229 | 1,873 | |||
| Conservative | Darren Clyde | 18.76% | 1,163 | 1,165 | 1,188 | 1,209 | 1,258 | 1,319 | ||
| Labour | Alice Marie Mitchell (incumbent) | 12.83% | 795 | 799 | 827 | 854 | ||||
| Green | James Thornbury | 3.86% | 239 | 254 | 294 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | John Rintoul | 2.47% | 153 | 157 | ||||||
| Solidarity | Stuart McLean | 1.11% | 69 | |||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 6,199 Spoilt: 174 Quota: 1,550 Turnout: 48.6% | ||||||||||
- SNP councillor Sheena Wardhaugh resigned from the party and became Independent on 25 May 2017.[6]
2019 By-election[]
Councillor Sheena Wardhaugh died on 2 June 2019, triggering a by-election.[7] This was held on 29 August 2019, won by the SNP's Grant Ferguson.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Grant Ferguson | 46.5 | 1,582 | 1,582 | 1,588 | 1,650 | 1,743 | |
| Labour | Kirsty Williams | 20.3 | 690 | 692 | 695 | 715 | 837 | |
| Conservative | Graham Fisher | 14.6 | 498 | 499 | 513 | 519 | 606 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Paul McGarry | 12.4 | 422 | 424 | 428 | 456 | ||
| Green | Antony Lee | 4.5 | 153 | 154 | 159 | |||
| UKIP | David MacKay | 1.4 | 48 | 50 | ||||
| Libertarian | Stephen McNamara | 0.4 | 12 | |||||
| Electorate: 12,960 Valid: 3,405 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 1,703 Turnout: 3,456 (26.7%) | ||||||||
2012 Election[]
2012 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Anne Maggs (incumbent) | 29.31 | 1,733 | ||||||||
| Labour | Alice Marie Mitchell (incumbent) | 22.80 | 1,348 | ||||||||
| Labour | Christopher Thompson (incumbent) | 18.01 | 1,065 | 1,100.9 | 1,230.6 | ||||||
| SNP | Sheena Wardhaugh (incumbent) | 9.28 | 549 | 972.7 | 977.8 | 983.7 | 993.5 | 1,064.8 | 1,115.3 | 1,374.4 | |
| Green | Kirsten Robb | 8.73 | 516 | 560.7 | 571 | 579.6 | 598.7 | 715.2 | 819.6 | ||
| Conservative | William Chalmers | 6.33 | 374 | 378.4 | 380.8 | 383.2 | 386.3 | 412.4 | |||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Clare Keane | 4.68 | 277 | 287.2 | 290.7 | 293.3 | 302.5 | ||||
| Solidarity | Richard Foster | 0.86 | 51 | 53.2 | 53.6 | 55.4 | |||||
| Electorate: 14,005 Valid: 5,913 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 1,183 Turnout: 6,017 (42.22%) | |||||||||||
2007 Election[]
2007 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Anne Maggs | 2,248 | 28.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Alice Marie Mitchell | 1,899 | 23.9 | 2 | 1 | |
| Labour | Christopher Thompson | 1,229 | 15.5 | 3 | 7 | |
| Conservative | Isobel Perratt | 545 | 6.9 | |||
| SNP | Sheena Wardhaugh | 538 | 6.8 | 4 | 10 | |
| Green | Raymond Burke | 500 | 6.3 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Smith | 446 | 5.6 | |||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Clare Keane | 227 | 2.9 | |||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Tim Gingell | 169 | 2.1 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Catherine Pedersen | 130 | 1.6 | |||
References[]
- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
- ^ "Local multi-member ward boundary maps". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ Electoral Ward: East Kilbride Central North, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ [1]
- ^ Findlay, Nicola (May 25, 2017). "Long-standing councillors quit SNP ahead of first meeting of new council". dailyrecord.
- ^ "Obituary: Sheena Wardhaugh, teacher and prominent figure in the SNP". HeraldScotland.
- ^ [http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/11870/candidate_votes_per_stage.pdf
- ^ https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200237/elections/1815/east_kilbride_central_north_by-election_thursday_29_august_2019]
- Wards of South Lanarkshire
- East Kilbride