Clydesdale South (ward)
| Clydesdale South | |
|---|---|
| South Lanarkshire | |
 Boundary of Clydesdale South in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017. | |
| Population | 14,621 (2021)[1] |
| Electorate | 11,706 (2022) |
| Major settlements | Lesmahagow |
| Scottish Parliament constituency | Clydesdale |
| Scottish Parliament region | South Scotland |
| UK Parliament constituency | Hamilton and Clyde Valley Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Number of councillors | 3 |
| Councillor | Mark Horsham (SNP) |
| Councillor | Ross Gowland (Labour) |
| Councillor | Ross Lambie (Conservative) |
| Created from | Blackwood Clyde Valley Douglas Lesmahagow |
Clydesdale South is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 14,621 people.
The ward was previously a Labour stronghold with the party holding all three seats between 2014 and 2017. However, it has since become split between Labour, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Conservatives.
Boundaries
[edit]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 South was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Lesmahagow ward and part of the former Clyde Valley ward as well as all of the former Blackwood and Douglas wards. Unlike the name suggests, Clydesdale South covers a primarily rural area in western Clydesdale in the southwest of South Lanarkshire next to its boundary with East Ayrshire. The largest settlements in the ward are Blackwood/Kirkmuirhill and Lesmahagow and it includes the villages of Coalburn, Douglas and Rigside.[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
[edit]| Year | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Archie Manson (SNP) |
Danny Meikle (Labour) |
Alex McInnes (Labour) | |||||
| 2012 | George Greenshields (Labour/Independent) | |||||||
| 2014 by-election | Gordon Muir (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Mark Horsham (SNP/Independent) |
Colin McGavigan (Conservative/Independent) | ||||||
| 2018 | ||||||||
| 2020 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Ross Gowland (Labour) |
Ross Lambie (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2023 | ||||||||
Election results
[edit]2022 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Mark Horsham (incumbent) | 33.5 | 1,762 | ||||||||
| Labour | Ross Gowland | 21.7 | 1,144 | 1,199 | 1,204 | 1,390 | |||||
| Conservative | Ross Lambie | 18.7 | 986 | 993 | 1,006 | 1,019 | 1,031 | 1,094 | 1,119 | 1,447 | |
| Independent | George Greenshields (incumbent) | 12.1 | 635 | 682 | 688 | 701 | 719 | 867 | 987 | ||
| Independent | Colin McGavigan (incumbent) | 5.7 | 298 | 329 | 341 | 345 | 352 | ||||
| Labour | Imogen Walker | 4.2 | 219 | 248 | 251 | ||||||
| Scottish Green | Ann McGuinness | 3.1 | 164 | 324 | 330 | 344 | 352 | 392 | |||
| UKIP | Janice MacKay | 1.0 | 52 | 57 | |||||||
| Electorate: 11,706 Valid: 5,260 Spoilt: 68 Quota: 1,316 Turnout: 45.5% | |||||||||||
2017 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Colin McGavigan[note 1] | 22.0 | 1,198 | 1,221 | 1,243 | 1,260 | 1,314 | 1,324 | 1,333 | 1,411 | |
| Labour | George Greenshields (incumbent)[note 2] | 18.9 | 1,031 | 1,038 | 1,050 | 1,076 | 1,206 | 1,229 | 1,280 | 1,992 | |
| SNP | Mark Horsham | 16.0 | 874 | 875 | 884 | 915 | 948 | 1,652 | |||
| Labour | Gordon Muir (incumbent) | 15.9 | 866 | 868 | 880 | 898 | 983 | 1,022 | 1,053 | ||
| SNP | Sandra Mills | 13.9 | 757 | 759 | 761 | 801 | 835 | ||||
| Independent | Danny Meikle | 7.8 | 425 | 428 | 434 | 443 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Craig Dalzell | 2.6 | 139 | 148 | 174 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Kaitey Blair | 1.8 | 97 | 101 | |||||||
| UKIP | Janice MacKay | 1.2 | 65 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 11,568 Valid: 5,452 Spoilt: 89 Quota: 1,364 Turnout: 47.9% | |||||||||||
2014 by-election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Gordon Muir | 40.8 | 1,492 | 1,512 | 1,559 | 1,819 | 2,366 | |
| SNP | George Sneddon | 32.0 | 1,170 | 1,203 | 1,260 | 1,356 | ||
| Conservative | Donna Hood | 18.0 | 659 | 674 | 744 | |||
| UKIP | Donald MacKay | 6.4 | 233 | 247 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Ruth Thomas | 2.8 | 104 | |||||
| Electorate: 11,979 Valid: 3,658 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,830 Turnout: 31.0% | ||||||||
Source:[10]
2012 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Archie Manson (incumbent)[note 3] | 35.0 | 1,625 | ||||||
| Labour | George Greenshields | 24.7 | 1,149 | 1,170 | |||||
| Labour | Alex McInnes (incumbent) | 18.8 | 875 | 889 | 894 | 921 | 1,044 | 1,251 | |
| Conservative | Colin McGavigan | 10.5 | 487 | 494 | 494 | 562 | |||
| SNP | Tom McDonald | 6.7 | 313 | 704 | 704 | 736 | 852 | ||
| UKIP | Chris McEwan | 4.3 | 199 | 207 | 207 | ||||
| Electorate: 11,620 Valid: 4,648 Spoilt: 113 Quota: 1,163 Turnout: 40.0% | |||||||||
Source:[12]
2007 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Danny Meikle[note 4] | 27.7 | 1,709 | |||||
| Labour | Alex McInnes[note 5] | 20.2 | 1,245 | 1,351 | ??? | 1,514 | ??? | |
| SNP | Archie Manson[note 6] | 18.7 | 1,156 | 1,164 | ??? | 1,341 | ??? | |
| SNP | David Smart | 18.6 | 1,148 | 1,159 | ??? | 1,334 | ||
| Conservative | John Baillie | 11.9 | 734 | 740 | ??? | |||
| Scottish Green | Billy McLean | 3.0 | 183 | 185 | ||||
| Electorate: 11,359 Valid: 6,175 Quota: 1,544 Turnout: 55.6% | ||||||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ On 29 June 2020, Clydesdale South Conservative councillor Colin McGavigan was suspended from the party over "totally unacceptable and offensive" Facebook posts in relation to the Black Lives Matter protests.[6] On 16 February 2021, Cllr McGavigan resigned from the party and became an independent.[7]
- ^ In 2018, Clydesdale South Labour councillor George Greenshields resigned from the party and became an independent.
- ^ Clydesdale South SNP councillor Archie Manson resigned on 14 March 2014 on health grounds. A by-election was held on 5 June 2014 and won by Labour's Gordon Muir.[11]
- ^ Returning councillor for Douglas single-member ward.
- ^ Returning councillor for Lesmahagow single-member ward.
- ^ Returning councillor for Blackwood single-member ward.
References
[edit]- ^ "Clydesdale South". Scottish Government. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
- ^ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
- ^ "Ward 4 Clydesdale South Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ "Ward 4 Clydesdale South Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ Hutcheon, Paul (29 June 2020). "Scottish Tory councillor suspended over 'totally unacceptable and offensive' Facebook posts". Daily Record. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ Hutcheon, Paul (16 February 2021). "Councillor quits Scottish Conservatives after Black Lives Matter Facebook row". Daily Record. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ "Ward 4 Clydesdale South Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "Ward 4 Clydesdale South Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "Clydesdale South by-election - 5 June 2014". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 June 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Beamish, Claudia (13 June 2014). "Congratulations to Cllr Gordon Muir". claudiabeamish.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021.
- ^ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ 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.