Cumbernauld East is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It currently elects four councillors.
Location of the ward [1]
It was created in 2007 as Abronhill, Kildrum and the Village, covering those neighbourhoods within the town of Cumbernauld: Abronhill, Kildrum and The Village, returning three members. A 2017 boundary change led to the name being altered to a more general geographic description due to the town centre commercial area and the Seafar neighbourhood (excepting the McGregor Road area) being added, the electorate increasing sufficiently to return an additional councillor. In 2019, the ward had a population of 16,570.[2]
Councillors
edit| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Elizabeth Irvine (SNP) |
Stevie Grant (Labour) |
Tom Johnston (SNP) |
3 seats | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2017 | Claire Barclay (SNP) |
Gillian Fannan (Labour) |
Partick Hogg (SNP) | |||||
| 2022 | Barry McCulloch (Labour) |
Adam Smith (SNP) | ||||||
Election Results
edit2017 Election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Tom Johnston | 22.68 | 1,345 | ||||||||
| SNP | Claire Barclay | 22.12 | 1,312 | ||||||||
| SNP | Paddy Hogg | 13.89 | 824 | 955 | 1,058 | 1,075 | 1,147 | 1,165 | 1,182 | 1,257 | |
| Labour | Gillian Fannan | 13.3 | 789 | 793 | 799 | 807 | 832 | 1,310 | |||
| Conservative | David Stark | 13.25 | 786 | 789 | 789 | 793 | 825 | 868 | 896 | ||
| Labour | Stevie Grant (incumbent) l | 10.52 | 624 | 631 | 636 | 644 | 673 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Anne McCrossan | 3.0 | 178 | 183 | 186 | 209 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Andy Locke | 1.23 | 73 | 75 | 75 | ||||||
| Electorate: 12,888 Valid: 5,931 Spoilt: 165 Quota: 1,187 Turnout: 6,096 (47.3%) | |||||||||||
- On 19 June 2018, SNP Councillor Paddy Hogg of resigned from the party, describing the SNP group as 'toxic'; he thereafter sat as an Independent.[4]
2012 Election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Labour | Stevie Grant (incumbent) | 32.2% | 1,449 | |
| SNP | Elizabeth Irvine (incumbent) | 31.1% | 1,399 | |
| SNP | Tom Johnston (incumbent) | 26% | 1,168 | |
| Cumbernauld Independent Councillors Alliance | Adam Smith | 5.4% | 241 | |
| Conservative | Ruth Hogg | 3.3% | 150 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Andy Locke | 2% | 91 | |
| Electorate: 11,251 Valid: 4,498 Spoilt: 88 Quota: 1,125 Turnout: 4,586 (40.76%) | ||||
2007 Election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Stevie Grant | 1,939 | 31.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | Elizabeth Irvine | 1,753 | 28.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | Tom Johnston (incumbent) | 1,430 | 23.1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Independent | Anne MacDonald | 331 | 5.4 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Carol Boyle | 292 | 4.7 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Barbara Harvey | 165 | 2.7 | |||
| Conservative | Robert Paterson | 160 | 2.6 | |||
| Independent | Robert Kelso | 109 | 1.8 | |||
References
edit- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ Electoral Ward: Cumbernauld East Archived 3 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - Scottish council elections". Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "NLC councillor quits '˜toxic' SNP". www.cumbernauld-news.co.uk. 19 June 2018. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2021.