East Kilbride West 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 13,737 people.
| East Kilbride West | |
|---|---|
| South Lanarkshire | |
Boundary of East Kilbride West in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017. | |
| Population | 13,737 (2021)[1] |
| Electorate | 13,412 (2023) |
| Major settlements | East Kilbride (part of) |
| Scottish Parliament constituency | East Kilbride |
| Scottish Parliament region | Central Scotland |
| UK Parliament constituency | East Kilbride and Strathaven |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Number of councillors | 3 |
| Councillor | Monique McAdams (Labour) |
| Councillor | David Watson (Independent) |
| Councillor | Kirsty Williams (Labour) |
| Created from | East Mains Hairmyres/Crosshouse Lindsay Mossneuk/Kittoch Stewartfield West Mains |
The ward has politically been split between the Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour and the Conservatives. Each party had held one of the three seats from the ward's creation until Cllr David Watson resigned from the SNP to become an independent in 2018. The 2022 election saw the SNP regain their seat from the Conservatives.
Boundaries
editThe 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 East Kilbride West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Stewartfield ward, part of the previous Hairmyres/Crosshouse and Lindsay wards as well as all of the former Mossneuk/Kittoch ward and a small area from each of the former East Mains and West Mains wards. East Kilbride West covers an area in the west of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with Glasgow City Council and East Renfrewshire Council. 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.[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 | Graham Simpson (Conservative) |
Michael McCann (Labour) |
David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) | |||||
| 2010 by-election |
Alan Scott (Labour) | |||||||
| 2012 | Janice McGinlay (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Ian Harrow (Conservative) |
Monique McAdams (Labour) | ||||||
| 2018 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Ali Salamati (SNP) | |||||||
| 2023 by-election |
Kirsty Williams (Labour) | |||||||
Election results
edit2023 by-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Kirsty Williams | 40.5 | 1,386 | 1,392 | 1,434 | 1,469 | 1,500 | 1,845 | |
| Conservative | Bill Dorrian | 26.4 | 904 | 914 | 919 | 933 | 937 | 965 | |
| SNP | Robert Gillies | 22.7 | 778 | 778 | 785 | 806 | 899 | ||
| Scottish Green | Cameron Eadie | 3.8 | 131 | 131 | 139 | 155 | |||
| Independent | Kristofer Keane | 2.9 | 99 | 112 | 123 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jake Stevenson | 2.4 | 83 | 85 | |||||
| Scottish Family | Jonathan Jack Richardson | 1.2 | 42 | ||||||
| Electorate: 13,412 Valid: 3,450 Spoilt: 27 Quota: 1,712 Turnout: 25.7% | |||||||||
2022 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Monique McAdams (incumbent) | 26.5 | 1,780 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Ian Harrow (incumbent) | 20.0 | 1,339 | 1,358 | 1,360 | 1,395 | 1,426 | 1,441 | 1,448 | ||
| Independent | David Watson (incumbent) | 18.6 | 1,248 | 1,269 | 1,270 | 1,309 | 1,365 | 1,458 | 1,555 | 2,220 | |
| SNP | Craig Sloan | 15.5 | 1,041 | 1,048 | 1,049 | 1,053 | 1,068 | ||||
| SNP | Ali Salamati | 15.4 | 1,031 | 1,039 | 1,040 | 1,051 | 1,072 | 1,962 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Huaiquan Zhang | 2.1 | 142 | 158 | 158 | 166 | |||||
| Scottish Family | Denise Hay | 1.6 | 110 | 112 | 121 | ||||||
| UKIP | Yvonne MacKay | 0.3 | 18 | 18 | |||||||
| Electorate: 13,319 Valid: 6,709 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,678 Turnout: 50.9% | |||||||||||
2017 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Ian Harrow | 37.3 | 2,363 | |||||||
| Labour | Monique McAdams | 20.7 | 1,315 | 1,529 | 1,571 | 1,612 | ||||
| SNP | David Watson (incumbent)[note 1] | 20.5 | 1,298 | 1,319 | 1,322 | 1,370 | 1,373 | 1,427 | 2,389 | |
| SNP | Ali Salamati | 14.2 | 900 | 914 | 917 | 986 | 988 | 1,065 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Ewan McRobert | 3.5 | 223 | 374 | 397 | 447 | 458 | |||
| Scottish Green | Billy McLean | 3.1 | 194 | 216 | 229 | |||||
| UKIP | David Mackay | 0.8 | 49 | 140 | ||||||
| Electorate: 12,151 Valid: 6,342 Spoilt: 74 Quota: 1,586 Turnout: 52.8% | ||||||||||
2012 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Graham Simpson (incumbent) | 25.3 | 1,197 | ||||||
| SNP | David Watson (incumbent) | 24.2 | 1,148 | 1,150 | 1,188 | ||||
| Labour | Janice McGinlay | 17.0 | 805 | 806 | 849 | 849 | 975 | 1,741 | |
| Labour | Alan Scott (incumbent) | 16.9 | 800 | 801 | 823 | 823 | 916 | ||
| SNP | John Reilly | 12.2 | 579 | 580 | 605 | 607 | |||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 4.5 | 211 | 213 | |||||
| Electorate: 12,092 Valid: 4,740 Spoilt: 44 Quota: 1,186 Turnout: 39.2% | |||||||||
Source:[11]
2010 by-election
edit| 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 | |||
| Scottish Green | Raymond Burke | 4.0 | 82 | 85 | 100 | ||||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 3.5 | 71 | 76 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Smith | 3.4 | 70 | ||||||
| Electorate: 12,024 Valid: 2,044 Quota: 1,023 Turnout: 17.0% | |||||||||
Source:[12]
2007 election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | David Watson[note 2] | 30.2 | 1,861 | |||||||
| Labour | Michael McCann[note 3][note 4] | 29.4 | 1,805 | |||||||
| Conservative | Graham Simpson | 14.0 | 860 | 906 | 919 | 941 | 1,019 | 1,197 | ??? | |
| Labour | Margaret McCulloch | 11.2 | 688 | 730 | 914 | 956 | 1,000 | 1,195 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Pauline Aaron | 7.1 | 437 | 501 | 519 | 615 | 725 | |||
| East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 4.2 | 259 | 289 | 295 | 348 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Kitty MacKenzie | 3.8 | 232 | 283 | 292 | |||||
| Electorate: 10,938 Valid: 6,142 Quota: 1,536 Turnout: 56.7% | ||||||||||
Notes
edit- ^ On 1 November 2018, East Kilbride West SNP councillor David Watson resigned from the party and became an independent after a legal dispute over an employee grievance.[8]
- ^ Returning councillor for Hairmyres/Crosshouse single-member ward.
- ^ Returning councillor for Mossneuk/Kittoch single-member ward.
- ^ East Kilbride West councillor Michael McCann was elected as MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow in May 2010 and he subsequently resigned his council seat. A by-election, held on 28 October 2010, was won by Labour's Alan Scott.
References
edit- ^ "East Kilbride West". Scottish Government. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
- ^ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
- ^ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West By-election Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West By-election Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
- ^ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ Findlay, Nicola (1 November 2018). "East Kilbride councillor quits SNP Group of South Lanarkshire Council". Daily Record.
- ^ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - East Kilbride West Ward". Retrieved 19 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.