Clydesdale East (ward)
Clydesdale East 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 13,165 people
| Clydesdale East | |
|---|---|
| South Lanarkshire | |
 Boundary of Clydesdale East in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017. | |
| Population | 13,165 (2021)[1] |
| Electorate | 10,578 (2022) |
| Major settlements | Biggar |
| Scottish Parliament constituency | Clydesdale |
| Scottish Parliament region | South Scotland |
| UK Parliament constituency | Lanark and Hamilton East Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Number of councillors | 3 |
| Councillor | Ian McAllan (SNP) |
| Councillor | Alex Allison (Conservative) |
| Councillor | Ralph Baker (Labour) |
| Created from | Biggar/Symington and Black Mount Carstairs/Carnwath Duneaton/Carmicheal |
The ward has been a Conservative stronghold with the party winning two of the three seats in 2007 and 2017.
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 Clydesdale East was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Carstairs/Carnwath ward as well as all of the former Biggar/Symington and Black Mount and Duneaton/Carmicheal wards. Clydesdale East covers a large, rural and sparsely populated area in the southern- and eastern-most parts of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders, West Lothian and East Ayrshire. The largest settlement in the ward is Biggar and it includes the villages of Abington, Carnwath, Carstairs, Carstairs Junction, Cleghorn, Crawford, Leadhills, Symington and Thankerton.[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
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Bev Gauld (SNP/Ind.) |
Beith Forrest (Conservative) |
Hamish Stewart (Conservative) | |||||
| 2012 | Ralph Barker (Labour) | |||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||
| 2017 | Ian Donald McAllan (SNP) |
Eric Holford (Conservative) |
Alex Allison (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022 | Ralph Barker (Labour) | |||||||
Election results
2022 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Ian McAllan (incumbent) | 28.6 | 1,513 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Alex Allison (incumbent) | 25.8 | 1,364 | ||||||||
| Labour | Ralph Barker | 16.4 | 869 | 876 | 879 | 882 | 952 | 1,034 | 1,218 | 1,517 | |
| Conservative | Eric Holford (incumbent) | 15.0 | 794 | 797 | 832 | 850 | 881 | 903 | 929 | ||
| Scottish Green | Claire Watson | 5.3 | 278 | 288 | 288 | 293 | 325 | ||||
| SNP | John McLatchie | 4.9 | 260 | 419 | 420 | 422 | 431 | 571 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Nicholas Mark Tucker | 3.1 | 162 | 165 | 165 | 171 | |||||
| Scottish Family | Gareth Kirk | 0.9 | 49 | 49 | 49 | ||||||
| Electorate: 10,578 Valid: 5,395 Spoilt: 106 Quota: 1,323 Turnout: 51.0% | |||||||||||
2017 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Alex Allison | 35.5 | 1,927 | ||||||||
| SNP | Ian Donald McAllan | 25.7 | 1,393 | ||||||||
| Labour | George Hannah | 10.9 | 592 | 609 | 613 | 634 | 678 | 802 | 984 | ||
| Conservative | Eric Holford | 9.7 | 526 | 959 | 960 | 967 | 992 | 1,021 | 1,136 | 1,386 | |
| Independent | Rev. Bev Gauld (incumbent) | 8.6 | 469 | 508 | 511 | 539 | 560 | 617 | |||
| Scottish Green | Janet Moxley | 4.9 | 268 | 277 | 293 | 324 | 376 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Mark Gordon | 2.7 | 144 | 160 | 162 | 170 | |||||
| Independent | Andrew McCallum | 2.1 | 112 | 121 | 123 | ||||||
| Electorate: 10,165 Valid: 5,431 Spoilt: 109 Quota: 1,358 Turnout: 54.5% | |||||||||||
2012 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Bev Gauld (incumbent)[note 1] | 22.3 | 936 | 981 | 1,013 | 1,070 | |||
| Conservative | Hamish Stewart (incumbent) | 19.8 | 832 | 882 | 1,453 | ||||
| SNP | Ian Donald McAllan | 17.7 | 745 | 783 | 810 | 850 | 864 | ||
| Labour | Ralph Barker | 17.3 | 727 | 794 | 824 | 876 | 877 | 1,120 | |
| Conservative | John McLatchie | 16.5 | 692 | 713 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Janet Moxley | 6.4 | 268 | ||||||
| Electorate: 9,815 Valid: 4,200 Spoilt: 65 Quota: 1,051 Turnout: 42.8% | |||||||||
Source:[9]
2007 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Beith Forrest[note 2] | 22.5 | 1,204 | ??? | 1,252 | 1,325 | 1,364 | |||
| Conservative | Hamish Stewart | 19.6 | 1,048 | ??? | 1,105 | 1,175 | 1,209 | ??? | ??? | |
| SNP | Bev Gauld[note 3] | 19.5 | 1,042 | ??? | 1,093 | 1,630 | ||||
| Labour | Ralph Barker | 15.5 | 832 | ??? | 937 | 989 | 1,056 | ??? | ||
| SNP | Tom Mitchell | 15.4 | 824 | ??? | 864 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Ron Waddell | 5.7 | 305 | ??? | ||||||
| Independent | Tom Dalbindle | 1.9 | 101 | |||||||
| Electorate: 9,907 Valid: 5,356 Quota: 1,340 Turnout: 54.8% | ||||||||||
Notes
- Clydesdale East SNP councillor Reverend Bev Gauld resigned from the party and became an independent in February 2014 after the party legalised same-sex marriage.[8]
- Returning councillor for Duneaton/Carmichael single-member ward.
- Returning councillor for Carstairs/Carnwath single-member ward.
References
- "Clydesdale East". 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 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 3 Clydesdale East Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- "Ward 3 Clydesdale East Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- "Ward 3 Clydesdale East Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- "Ward 3 Clydesdale East Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- "Councillor Bev Gauld resigns from SNP". Carluke Gazette. 12 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 17 June 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.