Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] It elects four councillors and covers much of the town of Motherwell (roughly all the territory east of the Argyle Line railway up to the station including the town centre, Airbles, Muirhouse and the developing suburb of Ravenscraig), as well as Craigneuk and Wishawhill in Wishaw, with a population of 18,497 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 | Alan Valentine SNP |
Tommy Luny Labour |
Kaye Harmon Labour |
Linsey McKay (Conservative) | ||||
| 2012 | Gary O'Rorke (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Kenneth Duffy Labour |
Nathan Wilson Conservative |
Agnes Magowan (SNP) | |||||
| 2022 | David Robb SNP | |||||||
| 2023 | Kaye Harmon Labour | |||||||
Election Results
edit2023 By-election
editIn August 2023, SNP councillor Agnes Magowan resigned for personal reasons.[4] A by-election, held on 16 November 2023, was won by Labour's Kaye Harmon.[5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Kaye Harmon | 43.3 | 1,368 | 1,369 | 1,379 | 1,398 | 1,427 | 1,479 | 1,642 | |
| SNP | Rosa Zambonini | 29.6 | 934 | 936 | 964 | 974 | 976 | 1,087 | 1,103 | |
| Conservative | Oyebola Ajala | 9.4 | 296 | 299 | 300 | 305 | 345 | 357 | ||
| Scottish Green | Derek Watson | 8.1 | 255 | 257 | 258 | 266 | 269 | |||
| BUP | Billy Acheson | 3.0 | 96 | 101 | 102 | 107 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Stewart McGeorge | 2.2 | 68 | 68 | 73 | |||||
| Alba | Mark Shields | 2.1 | 66 | 66 | ||||||
| UKIP | Neil Wilson | 0.8 | 24 | |||||||
| Electorate: 15,794 Valid: 3,107 Spoilt: 48 Quota: 1,554 Turnout: 20.0% | ||||||||||
2022 Election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Agnes Magowan (incumbent) | 32.0 | 1,941 | ||||||||
| Labour | Kenneth Duffy (incumbent) | 22.6 | 1,368 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Nathan Wilson (incumbent) | 16.7 | 1,010 | 1,025 | 1,032 | 1,033 | 1,039 | 1,048 | 1,090 | 1,316 | |
| SNP | David Robb | 10.8 | 653 | 1,263 | |||||||
| Labour | Michael Ross | 8.7 | 525 | 543 | 657 | 665 | 672 | 688 | 874 | ||
| Scottish Green | Derek Watson | 7.8 | 472 | 514 | 522 | 542 | 551 | 563 | |||
| Scottish Family | James Joseph Mitchell | 0.9 | 54 | 62 | 66 | 67 | 70 | ||||
| UKIP | Neil Wilson | 0.7 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | |||||
| Electorate: 15,549 Valid: 6,063 Spoilt: 190 Quota: 1,213 Turnout: 6,253 (40.2%) | |||||||||||
2017 Election
edit2017 North Lanarkshire Council election[9]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| SNP | Agnes Magowan | 25.27 | 1,507 | ||||||||||||
| Conservative | Nathan Wilson | 19.92 | 1,188 | 1,192 | 1,193 | 1,193 | 1,194 | 1,218 | |||||||
| SNP | Alan Valentine (incumbent) | 16.16 | 964 | 1,224 | |||||||||||
| Labour | Kenneth Duffy | 14.4 | 859 | 866 | 868 | 870 | 874 | 877 | 879 | 892 | 923 | 958 | 1,039 | 1,591 | |
| Labour | Kaye Harmon (incumbent) | 9.81 | 565 | 573 | 575 | 576 | 578 | 582 | 586 | 599 | 622 | 649 | 754 | ||
| Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire | Gary O'Rorke (incumbent) | 5.45 | 325 | 331 | 332 | 333 | 336 | 342 | 344 | 365 | 377 | 433 | |||
| Independent | Ian Glenny | 2.78 | 166 | 188 | 190 | 198 | 199 | 201 | 203 | 241 | 273 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Ben Adams | 2.43 | 145 | 150 | 157 | 159 | 169 | 175 | 176 | 185 | |||||
| Independent | Ian Kelly | 2.2 | 131 | 134 | 135 | 137 | 140 | 147 | 148 | ||||||
| UKIP | Neil Wilson | 1.14 | 68 | 68 | 69 | 69 | 69 | ||||||||
| Solidarity | James Mitchell | 0.42 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 29 | |||||||||
| Independent | Deryck Beaumont | 0.35 | 21 | 21 | 22 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 14,254 Valid: 5,964 Spoilt: 151 Quota: 1,197 Turnout: 6,115 (42.9%) | |||||||||||||||
2012 Election
edit2012 North Lanarkshire Council election[10]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Kaye Harmon (incumbent) | 20.9% | 944 | ||||||||
| SNP | Alan Valentine (incumbent) | 19.6% | 885 | 886.7 | 897.7 | 934.8 | |||||
| Labour | Tommy Lunny (incumbent) | 14.5% | 654 | 675.4 | 683.5 | 706.8 | 707.9 | 740.9 | 794.9 | 921.6 | |
| Labour | Gary O'Rorke††††††††† | 14.0% | 633 | 641.9 | 644.9 | 674.2 | 675.9 | 701.2 | 742.4 | 821.2 | |
| SNP | Jamie Super | 12.2% | 550 | 550.8 | 551.8 | 565.8 | 588.4 | 623.7 | 694.2 | ||
| Conservative | Linsey McKay (incumbent) | 6.9% | 311 | 312 | 324 | 333 | 333.9 | ||||
| Independent | Ian Kelly | 5.5% | 247 | 248.8 | 259.8 | 337.9 | 339.5 | 427 | |||
| Independent | Hugh McLaughlin | 5.2% | 236 | 236.8 | 240.8 | ||||||
| Scottish Christian | Brian Ross | 1.3% | 58 | 58.3 | |||||||
| Electorate: 13,218 Valid: 4,518 Spoilt: 124 Quota: 904 Turnout: 4,642 (35.12%) | |||||||||||
Labour councillor Gary O'Rorke resigned from the party and became Independent on 21 November 2016.[11]
2007 Election
edit2007 North Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Alan Valentine | 2,048 | 34.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Tommy Luny | 1,153 | 19.4 | 1 | 2 | |
| Labour | Kaye Harmon | 1,014 | 17.1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Labour | Gary O'Rorke | 782 | 13.2 | |||
| Conservative | Linsey McKay | 699 | 11.8 | 1 | 5 | |
| Scottish Socialist | Joyce Carmichael | 240 | 4.0 | |||
References
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- ^ Electoral Ward: Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig Archived 12 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ Pollock, Laura (22 August 2023). "North Lanarkshire SNP councillor resigns with immediate effect". The National. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ Thomson, Ross (17 November 2023). "Labour claim victory in Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig NLC by-election". Daily Record. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Declaration of Results Report Ward 19 Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Council. 17 November 2023. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
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- ^ "Scottish council election results | North Lanarkshire Council".
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- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - 3 May 2012 - North Lanarkshire Council - results". Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Labour duo quit party amid allegations of coup attempts and 'parasite' slurs". Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2021.