Cambuslang_West_(ward)
Cambuslang West (ward)
Electoral ward in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Cambuslang West 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 14,096 people.
| Cambuslang West | |
|---|---|
| South Lanarkshire | |
Boundary of Cambuslang West in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017. | |
| Population | 14,096 (2021)[1] |
| Electorate | 12,800 (2022) |
| Major settlements | Cambuslang (part of) |
| Scottish Parliament constituency | Rutherglen |
| Scottish Parliament region | Glasgow |
| UK Parliament constituency | Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 2007 (2007) |
| Number of councillors | 3 |
| Councillor | Margaret Walker (Labour) |
| Councillor | John Bradley (SNP) |
| Councillor | Norman Rae (Liberal Democrats) |
| Created from | Cairns Cambuslang Central Cathkin/Springhall Eastfield Kirkhill/Whitlawburn Long Calderwood |
The ward has politically been split between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party (SNP) with each party returning one councillor at half of the elections.
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 Cambuslang West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained part of the former Cairns ward, roughly half of the former Cathkin/Springhall and Cambuslang Central wards as well as all of the former Eastfield and Kirkhill/Whitlawburn wards. As a result of amendments to the boundaries of the South Lanarkshire Council's management areas, the boundaries between Rutherglen and Cambuslang, East Kilbride and Hamilton were tweaked so Cambuslang West also contained part of the former Long Calderwood ward. Cambuslang West covers a suburban area in the west of Cambuslang including the town centre and the neighbourhoods of Eastfield, Greenlees, Kirkhill, Silverbank and Whitlawburn. The ward's northern boundary is the division with Glasgow City Council which runs along the River Clyde.[2]
Prior to the local government reforms in the 1990s, Cambuslang was within the Glasgow District under Strathclyde Regional Council. One of its single-member wards was Cambuslang which included much of the same area as the current Cambuslang West.[3]
Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, streets around East Kilbride Road, Brownside Road and Dukes Road were transferred from the ward into Rutherglen South while streets between Greenlees Road and the Cathcart Circle Line railway tracks over Hamilton Road were transferred into Cambuslang West from Cambuslang East.[4]
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| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Clare McColl (SNP) |
Russell Clearie (Labour) |
David Baillie (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
| 2012 | Richard Tullett (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | John Bradley (SNP) |
Margaret Walker (Labour) |
Ann Le Blond (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022 | Norman Rae (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
2022 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Margaret Walker (incumbent) | 30.1 | 1,727 | ||||||
| SNP | John Bradley (incumbent) | 24.1 | 1,382 | 1,404 | 1,491 | ||||
| SNP | Gillian Sutherland | 14.9 | 856 | 882 | 1,000 | 1,049 | 1,066 | ||
| Conservative | Ann Le Blond (incumbent) | 12.9 | 739 | 786 | 798 | 798 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Norman Rae | 12.7 | 730 | 826 | 890 | 893 | 1,416 | 1,802 | |
| Scottish Green | Tom Lauckner | 5.2 | 301 | 327 | |||||
| Electorate: 12,800 Valid: 5,735 Spoilt: 102 Quota: 1,434 Turnout: 45.6% | |||||||||
2017 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Margaret Walker | 24.2 | 1,336 | 1,346 | 1,369 | 1,397 | |||||
| Conservative | Ann Le Blond | 21.1 | 1,167 | 1,178 | 1,201 | 1,210 | 1,212 | 1,499 | |||
| SNP | John Bradley | 19.9 | 1,099 | 1,104 | 1,110 | 1,149 | 1,150 | 1,214 | 1,220 | 2,170 | |
| SNP | Clare McColl (incumbent) | 17.4 | 962 | 965 | 976 | 1,033 | 1,035 | 1,120 | 1,128 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Norman Rae | 11.7 | 648 | 651 | 672 | 696 | 700 | ||||
| Scottish Green | David McClemont | 2.9 | 161 | 165 | 176 | ||||||
| Independent | Don Ferguson | 1.9 | 106 | 112 | |||||||
| UKIP | Kieran Kiely | 0.9 | 50 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 12,118 Valid: 5,529 Spoilt: 106 Quota: 1,383 Turnout: 46.5% | |||||||||||
2012 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Russell Clearie (incumbent) | 34.7 | 1,669 | ||||||
| SNP | Clare McColl (incumbent) | 26.2 | 1,260 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | David Baillie (incumbent) | 14.7 | 707 | 759 | 762 | 836 | 1,048 | ||
| Labour | Richard Tullett[note 1] | 12.6 | 606 | 950 | 961 | 1,030 | 1,065 | 1,395 | |
| Conservative | James MacKay | 7.2 | 344 | 356 | 358 | 388 | |||
| Scottish Green | Janice Sharkey | 4.7 | 228 | 245 | 260 | ||||
| Electorate: 11,948 Valid: 4,814 Spoilt: 81 Quota: 1,204 Turnout: 40.3% | |||||||||
Source:[9]
2007 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Russell Clearie[note 2] | 20.5 | 1,253 | 1,264 | ??? | 1,294 | 1,386 | ??? | ??? | |
| Labour | John McGuinness[note 3] | 20.0 | 1,225 | 1,238 | ??? | 1,264 | 1,305 | ??? | ||
| SNP | Clare McColl | 19.8 | 1,209 | 1,240 | ??? | 1,307 | 1,409 | ??? | ??? | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Baillie[note 4] | 19.5 | 1,191 | 1,206 | ??? | 1,294 | 1,597 | |||
| Conservative | Malcolm Macaskill | 12.6 | 772 | 774 | ??? | 844 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Christian Schmidt | 3.1 | 187 | 207 | ??? | |||||
| Scottish Unionist | Jimi Moore | 2.5 | 154 | 161 | ||||||
| Scottish Socialist | David McClemont | 2.1 | 130 | |||||||
| Electorate: 11,591 Valid: 6,121 Quota: 1,531 Turnout: 53.7% | ||||||||||
- Incumbent for Cambuslang East.
- Returning councillor for Cathkin/Springhall single-member ward.
- Returning councillor for Eastfield single-member ward.
- Returning councillor for Kirkhill/Whitlawburn single-member ward.
- "Cambuslang West". Scottish Government. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- "Second Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements". Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- "Ward 13 Cambuslang West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
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- "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
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