Murdostoun is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] It elects four councillors and covers the settlements of Cleland, Dalziel Park and Newmains plus the Coltness and Cambusnethan areas of Wishaw, with a combined population of 20,485 in 2019;[3] created in 2007, its territory remained almost unchanged in a 2017 national review, other than the addition of a few streets by moving a section of the boundary south from the Temple Gill burn to the edge of Belhaven Park.
Location of the ward [1]
Councillors
edit| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | John Taggart (SNP) |
Jimmy Martin (Labour) |
Nicky Shevlin (Labour) |
Robert McKendrick (Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | Alan Clinch (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Cameron McManus (SNP) |
Louise Roarty (Labour) | ||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
Election Results
edit2022 Election
edit- 2017: 2xLab; 1xSNP; 1xInd
- 2022: 2xLab; 1xSNP; 1xInd
- 2017-2022: No change
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Robert John McKendrick (incumbent) | 27.2 | 1,545 | |||||||
| SNP | Cameron McManus (incumbent) | 19.4 | 1,106 | 1,167 | ||||||
| Labour | Louise Roarty (incumbent) | 15.0 | 853 | 914 | 916 | 986 | 1,191 | |||
| Labour | Nicky Shevlin (incumbent) | 13.7 | 778 | 834 | 836 | 892 | 1,007 | 1,049 | 1,317 | |
| SNP | Julia Stachurska | 10.3 | 584 | 606 | 629 | 691 | 705 | 708 | ||
| Conservative | Linsey McKay | 9.1 | 518 | 545 | 545 | 624 | ||||
| Independent | Robert Livingston Arthur | 5.4 | 305 | 394 | 394 | |||||
| Electorate: 14,403 Valid: 5,689 Spoilt: 136 Quota: 1,138 Turnout: 5,825 (40.4%) | ||||||||||
2017 Election
edit2017 North Lanarkshire Council election[6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Robert McKendrick (incumbent) | 27.55 | 1,765 | ||||||||
| SNP | Cameron McManus | 18.89 | 1,210 | 1,267 | 1,270 | 1,295 | |||||
| Conservative | Cindy MacKenzie | 12.88 | 825 | 851 | 880 | 914 | 915 | 983 | 1,006 | ||
| Labour | Nicky Shevlin (incumbent) | 12.21 | 782 | 825 | 829 | 841 | 841 | 931 | 1,008 | 1,145 | |
| Labour | Louise Roarty | 11.52 | 738 | 804 | 810 | 827 | 828 | 859 | 1,014 | 1,235 | |
| SNP | Anum Qaisar | 8.76 | 561 | 602 | 604 | 614 | 624 | 684 | |||
| Independent | John Taggart (incumbent) | 4.43 | 284 | 366 | 370 | 452 | 452 | ||||
| Independent | Robert Arthur | 2.4 | 154 | 231 | 241 | ||||||
| UKIP | Yvonne Millar | 1.04 | 67 | 77 | |||||||
| Electorate: 13,928 Valid: 6,406 Spoilt: 162 Quota: 1,282 Turnout: 6,568 (46%) | |||||||||||
2012 Election
edit2012 North Lanarkshire Council election[7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | Robert McKendrick (incumbent) | 32.1% | 1,751 | ||||||
| Labour | Nicky Shevlin (incumbent) | 21.6% | 1,178 | ||||||
| Labour | Alan Clinch | 14.5% | 789 | 982.1 | 1,045.4 | 1,111.3 | |||
| SNP | John Taggart (incumbent) | 13.4% | 729 | 860.7 | 867.5 | 925.7 | 927.8 | 1,566.7 | |
| SNP | Lyall Duff | 12.7% | 691 | 739.9 | 743.1 | 779.7 | 782.9 | ||
| Conservative | Cindy MacKenzie | 5.9% | 321 | 369.5 | 371.4 | ||||
| Electorate: 14,401 Valid: 5,459 Spoilt: 110 Quota: 1,092 Turnout: 5,569 (38.67%) | |||||||||
- SNP councillor John Taggart resigned from the party and became Independent on 10 February 2015 in opposition to the party's 2015 Westminster Election selection procedures.[8]
2007 Election
edit2007 North Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jimmy Martin | 1,449 | 20.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | John Taggart | 1,322 | 18.2 | 1 | 4 | |
| Independent | Robert McKendrick | 1,085 | 15.0 | 1 | 7 | |
| Labour | Nicky Shelvin | 804 | 11.1 | 1 | 7 | |
| Independent | John Lawrie | 756 | 10.4 | |||
| Labour | David Moon | 654 | 9.0 | |||
| Conservative | Mark Nolan | 614 | 8.5 | |||
| Scottish Christian | Tom Selfridge | 348 | 4.8 | |||
| Solidarity | William Kelly | 212 | 2.9 | |||
References
edit- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk.
- ^ "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: Murdostoun Archived 2022-02-20 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ "Notice of Poll". North Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
- ^ "Election Results". North Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Lanarkshire councillors quit in SNP target area". BBC News. 10 February 2015. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2021.