Avondale and Stonehouse (ward)

Avondale and Stonehouse
Avondale and Stonehouse
South Lanarkshire
	Boundary of Avondale and Stonehouse in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population	17,749 (2021)[1]
Electorate	14,882 (2022)
Major settlements	Strathaven; Stonehouse
Scottish Parliament constituency	Clydesdale; Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse
Scottish Parliament region	South Scotland
UK Parliament constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow; Lanark and Hamilton East
Current ward
Created	2007
Number of councillors	3
Councillor	Margaret Cooper (Independent)
Councillor	Elise Frame (SNP)
Councillor	Susan Kerr (Labour)
Created from	Avondale North; Avondale South; Larkhall South; Lindsay

Avondale and Stonehouse is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward initially elected four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system before a boundary review in 2017 reduced the number of councillors to three. It covers an area with a population of 17,749 people.

The ward has produced strong results for both Labour and the Scottish National Party (SNP). Prior to the boundary review, the SNP held half the seats in the ward and both parties have returned at least one member at every election.

Boundaries

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 Avondale and Stonehouse was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Lindsay ward and part of the former Larkhall South ward as well as all of the former Avondale North and Avondale South wards. Avondale and Stonehouse is located in the west of South Lanarkshire and covers a rural hinterland next to its boundaries with East Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire. The ward centres around the towns of Strathaven and Stonehouse as well the villages of Chapelton and Glassford.[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were altered to remove a corridor of farmland between the White Cart Water and southern East Kilbride. The review resulted in a reduction in the number of seats from four to three in order to balance with other wards with similar populations.[3]

Councillors

Year	Councillors
2007		William Holman (SNP)	James Malloy (Labour)		Graeme Campbell (Conservative /Independent/ Conservative)	Lynn Filshie (Independent)
2012	Margaret Cooper (Labour /Independent)	William Holman (SNP)		Isobel Dorman (SNP)
2017		3 seats
2017
2022			Susan Kerr (Labour)	Elise Frame (SNP)

Election results

2022 election

Avondale and Stonehouse - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Margaret Cooper (incumbent)	23.7	1,629	1,639	1,740
	SNP	Elise Frame	21.2	1,454	1,471	1,632	1,635	2,122
	Conservative	Gary Burns	20.6	1,416	1,420	1,440	1,445	1,452	1,462
	Labour	Susan Kerr	19.8	1,363	1,367	1,439	1,444	1,480	1,619	2,290
	SNP	Leigh Payne	7.2	495	515	566	567
	Scottish Green	Erica Bradley-Young	6.4	437	444
	Alba	Colin MacLaren	1.1	75
Electorate: 14,882 Valid: 6,869 Spoilt: 93 Quota: 1,718 Turnout: 46.8%

Source:[4][5]

2017 election

Avondale and Stonehouse - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Conservative	Graeme Campbell (incumbent)	31.5	2,062
	Labour	Margaret Cooper (incumbent)[note 1]	23.5	1,540	1,656
	SNP	Isobel Dorman (incumbent)	17.1	1,121	1,131	1,134	1,137	1,147	1,187	1,309	2,279
	SNP	Mairi Tulbure	13.4	877	882	883	884	893	967	1,111
	Independent	Alister Hendry	8.9	580	665	669	695	739	801
	Scottish Green	Erica Young	3.0	193	203	204	211	273
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel O'Malley	1.9	122	170	173	181
	UKIP	Laura Murray	0.8	51	82	83
Electorate: 13,114 Valid: 6,546 Spoilt: 90 Quota: 1,637 Turnout: 50.6%

Source:[7][8]

2012 election

Avondale and Stonehouse - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	SNP	Isobel Dorman	21.4	1,148
	SNP	William Holman (incumbent)	16.1	866	923	932	950	993	1,061	1,163
	Labour	Margaret Cooper	12.5	670	673	674	685	698	732	759	764	1,159
	Conservative	Allan Finnie	11.6	624	625	635	642	650	667	719	725	735	740
	Independent	Graeme Campbell (incumbent)	9.4	502	503	505	516	525	581	808	824	853	862	1,100
	Labour	John Hamilton	9.2	494	495	495	499	522	565	589	597
	Independent	Lynn Filshie (incumbent)	7.6	409	412	412	429	460	555
	Independent	Jim Malloy (incumbent)	6.3	339	340	340	357	381
	Scottish Green	Erica Young	3.4	181	183	185	189
	Independent	Kenny Weir	1.8	94	96	99
	UKIP	Melvyn Donald Randall	0.7	37	37
Electorate: 12,848 Valid: 5,364 Spoilt: 97 Quota: 1,073 Turnout: 41.8%

Source:[9]

2007 election

Avondale and Stonehouse - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	William Holman	27.6	1,989
	Conservative	Graeme Campbell	19.2	1,384	1,450
	Labour	James Malloy[note 2]	14.9	1,071	1,127	1,128	1,140	1,155	1,226	1,356	???
	Independent	Lynn Filshie	11.1	797	858	860	975	1,127	1,205	1,348	???
	Labour	Ian McInnes	10.9	788	816	816	824	830	867	922
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Benzies	5.7	414	496	498	511	536	646
	Scottish Green	John Innes	4.6	333	406	406	416	449
	Independent	Stuart Brown	3.3	238	266	267	304
	Independent	Frank Reilly	2.7	198	217	218
Electorate: 13,144 Valid: 6,912 Quota: 1,443 Turnout: 55.7%

Source:[10][11]

Notes

Avondale and Stonehouse Labour councillor Margaret Cooper resigned from the party and became an independent in May 2017.[6]
Returning councillor for Avondale North single-member ward.

References

"Avondale and Stonehouse". Scottish Government. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
"Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
"Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
"Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
"Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
Findlay, Nicola (25 May 2017). "Long-standing councillors quit SNP ahead of first meeting of new council". Daily Record.
"Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
"Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
"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.

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[7] Avondale and Stonehouse Labour councillor Margaret Cooper resigned from the party and became an independent in May 2017.[6]

[11] Returning councillor for Avondale North single-member ward.

[1] "Avondale and Stonehouse". Scottish Government. Retrieved 5 March 2023.

[2] "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 27 February 2023.

[3] "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2023.

[4] "Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.

[5] "Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.

[auto-6] Findlay, Nicola (25 May 2017). "Long-standing councillors quit SNP ahead of first meeting of new council". Daily Record.

[8] "Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.

[9] "Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.

[2012res-10] "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.

[LEAP-12] Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire". Retrieved 19 February 2023.

[SCE2007-13] 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.