Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig (ward)

Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.^[1] It elects four councillors and covers much of the town of Motherwell (roughly all the territory east of the Argyle Line railway up to the station including the town centre, Airbles, Muirhouse and the developing suburb of Ravenscraig), as well as Craigneuk and Wishawhill in Wishaw, with a population of 18,497 in 2019;^[2] created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 national review.

Councillors[]

Election	Councillors
2007		Alan Valentine SNP		Tommy Luny Labour	Kaye Harmon Labour	Linsey McKay (Conservative)
2012			Gary O'Rorke (Labour)	Tommy Luny Labour	Kaye Harmon Labour
2017	Kenneth Duffy Labour			Nathan Wilson Conservative	Agnes Magowan (SNP)

Election Results[]

2017 Election[]

2017 North Lanarkshire Council election^[3]

Motherwell South East & Ravenscraig - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	SNP	Agnes Magowan	25.27	1,507
	Conservative	Nathan Wilson	19.92	1,188	1,192	1,193	1,193	1,194	1,218
	SNP	Alan Valentine (incumbent)	16.16	964	1,224
	Labour	Kenneth Duffy	14.4	859	866	868	870	874	877	879	892	923	958	1,039	1,591
	Labour	Kaye Harmon (incumbent)	9.81	565	573	575	576	578	582	586	599	622	649	754
	Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire	Gary O'Rorke (incumbent)	5.45	325	331	332	333	336	342	344	365	377	433
	Independent	Ian Glenny	2.78	166	188	190	198	199	201	203	241	273
	Green	Ben Adams	2.43	145	150	157	159	169	175	176	185
	Independent	Ian Kelly	2.2	131	134	135	137	140	147	148
	UKIP	Neil Wilson	1.14	68	68	69	69	69
	Solidarity	James Mitchell	0.42	25	27	28	29
	Independent	Deryck Beaumont	0.35	21	21	22
Electorate: 14,254 Valid: 5,964 Spoilt: 151 Quota: 1,197 Turnout: 6,115 (42.9%)

2012 Election[]

2012 North Lanarkshire Council election^[4]

Motherwell South East & Ravenscraig - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Kaye Harmon (incumbent)	20.9%	944
	SNP	Alan Valentine (incumbent)	19.6%	885	886.7	897.7	934.8
	Labour	Tommy Lunny (incumbent)	14.5%	654	675.4	683.5	706.8	707.9	740.9	794.9	921.6
	Labour	Gary O'Rorke†††††††††	14.0%	633	641.9	644.9	674.2	675.9	701.2	742.4	821.2
	SNP	Jamie Super	12.2%	550	550.8	551.8	565.8	588.4	623.7	694.2
	Conservative	Linsey McKay (incumbent)	6.9%	311	312	324	333	333.9
	Independent	Ian Kelly	5.5%	247	248.8	259.8	337.9	339.5	427
	Independent	Hugh McLaughlin	5.2%	236	236.8	240.8
	Scottish Christian	Brian Ross	1.3%	58	58.3
Electorate: 13,218 Valid: 4,518 Spoilt: 124 Quota: 904 Turnout: 4,642 (35.12%)

Labour councillor Gary O'Rorke resigned from the party and became Independent on 21 November 2016.^[5]

2007 Election[]

2007 North Lanarkshire Council election

North Lanarkshire council election, 2007: Motherwell South East & Ravenscraig
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
SNP	Alan Valentine	2,048	34.5	1	1
Labour	Tommy Luny	1,153	19.4	1	2
Labour	Kaye Harmon	1,014	17.1	1	5
Labour	Gary O'Rorke	782	13.2
Conservative	Linsey McKay	699	11.8	1	5
Scottish Socialist	Joyce Carmichael	240	4.0

References[]

^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^ Electoral Ward: Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig, Scottish Government Statistics
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^ "Labour duo quit party amid allegations of coup attempts and 'parasite' slurs".

[1] "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

[2] Electoral Ward: Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig, Scottish Government Statistics

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[5] "Labour duo quit party amid allegations of coup attempts and 'parasite' slurs".

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