Motherwell North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] It elects four councillors and covers part of Motherwell (the Cleekhimin, Coursington and Globe neighbourhoods) plus the nearby, adjoining villages of Carfin, Newarthill and most of New Stevenston (other than streets north of the Shotts Line railway tracks), with a combined population of 18,191 in 2019;[3] created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 national review.
Location of the ward [1]
Councillors
edit| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Gordon Stewart (SNP) |
Peter Nolan (Labour) |
Annita McAuley (Labour) |
Helen McKenna (Labour) | ||||
| 2012 | Shahid Farooq (SNP/ Alba) | |||||||
| 2014 by- | Pat O'Rourke (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Ann Weir (SNP) |
Olivia Carson (Labour) | ||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Gerry Brennan (SNP) |
Anne Thomas (SNP) |
Andrew Duffy-Lawson (Labour) |
Ayeshah Khan (Labour) | ||||
Election Results
edit2017 Election
edit2017 North Lanarkshire Council election[4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Shahid Farooq (incumbent) | 19.83 | 1,123 | 1,173 | |||||
| SNP | Ann Weir | 19.37 | 1,097 | 1,164 | |||||
| Labour | Pat O'Rourke (incumbent) | 18.38 | 1,041 | 1,182 | |||||
| Labour | Olivia Carson | 16.46 | 932 | 1,018 | 1,057 | 1,072 | 1,084 | 1,582 | |
| Conservative | Ashley Baird | 16.03 | 908 | 988 | 989 | 992 | 994 | ||
| Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire | Helen McKenna (incumbent) | 9.92 | 562 | ||||||
| Electorate: 13,646 Valid: 5,663 Spoilt: 164 Quota: 1,133 Turnout: 5,827 (42.7%) | |||||||||
2012 Election
edit2012 North Lanarkshire Council election[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Peter Nolan (incumbent) | 31.1% | 1,548 | |||||||
| Labour | Helen McKenna (incumbent) | 18.9% | 941 | 1,329.3 | ||||||
| Labour | Annita McAuley (incumbent) | 18.0% | 897 | 965.6 | 1,244.8 | |||||
| SNP | Shahid Farooq | 13.9% | 689 | 709.4 | 721.9 | 736.1 | 757.9 | 782.6 | 1,304.8 | |
| SNP | Gordon Stewart (incumbent) | 11.5% | 572 | 588.1 | 596.9 | 612.1 | 631.9 | 691.5 | ||
| Conservative | Neil Richardson | 4.4% | 217 | 224.1 | 228.1 | 235.8 | 278 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Fraser MacGregor | 2.2% | 109 | 115.1 | 118.3 | 130.2 | ||||
| Electorate: 13,573 Valid: 4,973 Spoilt: 87 Quota: 995 Turnout: 5,060 (37.28%) | ||||||||||
- On 8 March 2016, Labour councillors Helen McKenna and Peter Nolan resigned from the party and became Independents.[6]
2014 by-election
editLabour councillor Annita McAuley died on 23 October 2013. A by-election was held on 23 January 2014 and the seat was retained by Labour's Pat O'Rourke.[7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Labour | Pat O'Rourke | 68.2 | 1,719 | |
| SNP | Jordan Linden | 20.6 | 520 | |
| Conservative | Bob Burgess | 6.9 | 173 | |
| UKIP | Neil Wilson | 4.2 | 107 | |
| Electorate: Valid: 2,519 Spoilt: 38 Quota: 1,260 Turnout: 2,557 (18.4%) | ||||
2007 Election
edit2007 North Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Peter Nolan | 1,532 | 23.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | Gordon Stewart | 1,480 | 22.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Helen McKenna | 1,234 | 18.9 | 1 | 2 | |
| Labour | Annita McAuley | 1,067 | 16.3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Douglas | 465 | 7.1 | |||
| Conservative | Neil Richardson | 383 | 5.9 | |||
| Independent | Tom Kennedy | 379 | 5.8 | |||
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.
- ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ Electoral Ward: Motherwell North, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - Scottish council elections". Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - 3 May 2012 - North Lanarkshire Council - results". Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire councillors resign from Labour group". BBC News. 8 March 2016. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Tributes are paid to Annita McAuley - Motherwell Times". Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ "Scottish Elections :: Motherwell North By-Election 2014 - election result". Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2021.