East Kilbride West (ward)
East Kilbride West is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council.[2][3] Created in 2007, it elects three councillors. Its territory covers the parts of East Kilbride on the north-west and western peripheries of the town, including the neighbourhoods of Gardenhall, Hairmyres, Mossneuk, Nerston (the brownfield residential developments, but not the older separate hamlet), Newlandsmuir, Philipshill and Stewartfield, plus the College Milton industrial area and the outlying village of Thorntonhall – these boundaries were unaffected by a 2017 national review. In 2019, the ward's population was 13,695.[4]
Councillors[]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Graham Simpson (Conservative) |
Michael McCann (Labour) |
David Watson (SNP) | |||||
| 2010 by- | Alan Scott (Labour) | |||||||
| 2012 | Janice McGinlay (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Ian Harrow (Conservative) |
Monique McAdams (Labour) | ||||||
Election Results[]
2017 Election[]
2017 South Lanarkshire Council election[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Ian Harrow | 37.26% | 2,363 | |||||||
| Labour | Monique McAdams | 20.73% | 1,315 | 1,529 | 1,571 | 1,612 | ||||
| SNP | David Watson (incumbent) | 20.47% | 1,298 | 1,319 | 1,322 | 1,370 | 1,373 | 1,427 | 2,389 | |
| SNP | Ali Salamati | 14.19% | 900 | 914 | 917 | 986 | 988 | 1,065 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Ewan McRobert | 3.52% | 223 | 374 | 397 | 447 | 458 | |||
| Green | Billy McLean | 3.06% | 194 | 216 | 229 | |||||
| UKIP | David Mackay | 0.77% | 49 | 140 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 6,342 Spoilt: 74 Quota: 1,586 Turnout: 52.8% | ||||||||||
- On 1 November 2018, SNP councillor David Watson resigned from the party and became an Independent after a legal dispute over an employee grievance.[6]}}
2012 Election[]
2012 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Graham Simpson (incumbent) | 25.25 | 1,197 | ||||||
| SNP | David Watson(incumbent) | 24.22 | 1,148 | 1,150.1 | 1,188.4 | ||||
| Labour | Janice McGinlay | 16.98 | 805 | 806 | 849.3 | 849.3 | 974.7 | 1,740.9 | |
| Labour | Alan Scott (incumbent) | 16.88 | 800 | 801.4 | 822.6 | 822.7 | 916 | ||
| SNP | John Reilly | 12.22 | 579 | 579.5 | 604.6 | 606.5 | |||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 4.45 | 211 | 213.1 | |||||
| Electorate: 12,092 Valid: 4,740 Spoilt: 44 Quota: 1,186 Turnout: 4,784 (39.20%) | |||||||||
2007 Election[]
2007 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | David Watson | 1,861 | 30.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Michael McCann | 1,805 | 29.4 | 2 | 1 | |
| Conservative | Graham Simpson | 860 | 14.0 | 3 | 7 | |
| Labour | Margaret McCulloch | 688 | 11.2 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Pauline Aaron | 437 | 7.1 | |||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 259 | 4.2 | |||
| Green | Kitty MacKenzie | 232 | 3.8 | |||
2010 By-election[]
Following the election of Michael McCann as MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow, by-election was on 28 October 2010 to fill the vacancy, won by the Labour Party's Alan Scott.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Alan Scott | 41.4 | 847 | 863 | 873 | 892 | 973 | 1,297 | |
| SNP | Pat McGuire | 27.9 | 571 | 587 | 606 | 641 | 761 | ||
| Conservative | Ian Harrow | 19.7 | 403 | 427 | 442 | 455 | |||
| Green | Raymond Burke | 4.0 | 82 | 85 | 100 | ||||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 3.5 | 71 | 76 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Smith | 3.4 | 70 | ||||||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||||||
| Electorate: 12,024 Valid: 2,044 Quota: 1,023 Turnout: 17.00% | |||||||||
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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 West, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ Council, South Lanarkshire. "South Lanarkshire Council online information | Council and government | Elections". www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk.
- ^ Findlay, Nicola (1 November 2018). "East Kilbride councillor quits SNP Group of South Lanarkshire Council". Daily Record.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Wards of South Lanarkshire
- East Kilbride