Thorniewood is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] It elects three councillors and covers the Viewpark, Tannochside and Birkenshaw areas. Its south-west boundary is the M74 motorway bordering the Bothwell and Uddingston ward of South Lanarkshire (the localities of Thorniewood were often historically considered parts of Uddingston, particularly before the two parts were divided between the districts of Hamilton and Motherwell in 1975).
Location of the ward [1]
A 2017 national review caused the territory to be reduced, the east boundary moving westwards from the A725 bypass resulting in the loss of the Fallside neighbourhood and the unpopulated Righead Industrial Estate; however, housebuilding elsewhere meant the decrease in the electorate was minimal. The ward had a population of 13,950 in 2019.[3]
Councillors
edit| Election | Councillors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Duncan McShannon (SNP) |
Jim McCabe (Labour) |
Bob Burrows (Labour) | |||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 2015 by- | Steven Bonnar (SNP) | |||||
| 2017 | Hugh Gaffney (Labour) | |||||
| 2019 by- | Norah Mooney (Labour) | |||||
| 2021 by- | Helen Loughran (Labour) | |||||
| 2022 | Margaret Boyd
(Labour) |
Barry McCluskey
(SNP) | ||||
Election Results
edit2017 Election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Labour | Bob Burrows (incumbent) | 33.48 | 1,568 | ||||
| SNP | Steven Bonnar (incumbent) | 31.17 | 1,460 | ||||
| Labour | Hugh Gaffney | 16.78 | 786 | 1,119 | 1,156 | 1,419 | |
| Conservative | Christine McConnell | 11.08 | 519 | 536 | 540 | ||
| SNP | Josh Robertson | 7.49 | 351 | 362 | 584 | 609 | |
| Electorate: 10,688 Valid: 4,684 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 1172 Turnout: 4,788 (44.8%) | |||||||
2019 By-election
edit- On 1 Jul 2019, Labour councillor Hugh Gaffney resigned his seat after he was elected as MP for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill at the 2017 UK Parliament Election.[5] A by-election was held on 19 September 2019 and the seat was retained by Labour by Norah Moody.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Labour | Norah Moody | 44.3% | 1,362 | |
| SNP | Eve Cunnington | 39.1% | 1,202 | |
| Conservative | Lorraine Nolan | 9.6% | 296 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Colin Robb | 5.5% | 168 | |
| Scottish Green | Rosemary McGowan | 1.5% | 46 | |
| Quota: | ||||
2021 By-election
edit- SNP councillor Steven Bonnar was elected as MP for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill at the 2019 UK Parliament Election.[7] He resigned his Council seat and the by-election was set for May but was deferred until 19 November 2020. It was won by Helen Loughran for Labour.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Helen Loughran | 36.4% | 998 | 999 | 1,018 | 1,112 | 1,263 | |
| SNP | Eve Cunnington | 34.5% | 944 | 944 | 960 | 971 | 1,160 | |
| Independent | Joseph Budd | 18.9% | 518 | |||||
| Conservative | Oyebola Ajala | 7.7% | 212 | 215 | 220 | |||
| Scottish Green | Rosemary McGowan | 1.9% | 53 | 57 | ||||
| UKIP | Daryl Gardner | 0.5% | 15 | |||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 2,740 Spoilt: 29 Quota: 1,371 Turnout: 25.4% | ||||||||
2012 Election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Labour | Bob Burrows (incumbent) | 37.3% | 1,623 | ||
| Labour | Jim McCabe (incumbent) | 33.2% | 1,443 | ||
| SNP | Duncan McShannon (incumbent) | 24.3% | 1,057 | 1,220.5 | |
| Conservative | Alan Henderson | 5.2% | 225 | 304.8 | |
| Electorate: 11,668 Valid: 4,348 Spoilt: 80 Quota: 1,088 Turnout: 4,428 (37.95%) | |||||
2015 By-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Steven Bonnar | 47.01% | 1,555 | 1,556 | 1,565 | 1,586 | 1,622 | 1,647 | |
| Labour | Hugh Gaffney | 42.62% | 1,410 | 1,417 | 1,422 | 1,433 | 1,456 | 1,517 | |
| Conservative | Meghan Gallacher | 4.5% | 149 | 158 | 167 | 172 | 175 | ||
| Scottish Socialist | Liam McCabe | 2.45% | 81 | 81 | 82 | 89 | |||
| Scottish Green | Patrick McAleer | 1.54% | 51 | 55 | 61 | ||||
| Scottish Christian | Craig Smith | 1% | 33 | 37 | |||||
| UKIP | Matt Williams | 0.88% | 29 | ||||||
| Electorate: 11,730 Valid: 3,308 (28.2%) Spoilt: 38 Quota: 1,655 Turnout: 3,346 (28.5%) | |||||||||
- SNP Cllr Duncan McShannon resigned his seat in May 2015. A by-election was held on 9 July 2015 and the seat was held by the party's Stephen Bonnar.[11]
2007 Election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Jim McCabe | 1,714 | 29.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | Duncan McShannon | 1,369 | 23.8 | 1 | 4 | |
| Labour | Bob Burrows | 1,342 | 23.3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Labour | Dave Saunders | 878 | 15.2 | |||
| Conservative | David Imrie Paterson | 455 | 7.9 | |||
References
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- ^ Electoral Ward: Thorniewood Archived 16 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - Scottish council elections". Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Scots Labour MP triggers council by-election". BBC News. 1 July 2019. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ "Thorniewood By-election". north lanarkshire cc. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "May by-election after Coatbridge's new MP stands down from council". 27 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council Ward 14 Thorniewood | North Lanarkshire Council". north lanarkshire cc. Archived from the original on 10 November 2020. Retrieved 9 November 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 Council - By-Election Result Announced". Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - By-Election Result Announced". Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2020.