Murdostoun (ward)
Murdostoun is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | John Taggart (SNP) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Jimmy Martin (Labour) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Nicky Shelvin (Labour) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | | Robert McKendrick (Ind.) |
| 2012 | Alan Clinch (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Cameron McManus (SNP) |
Louise Roarty (Labour) | ||||||
Election Results
2017 Election
2017 North Lanarkshire Council election [1]
| 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
2012 North Lanarkshire Council election [2]
| 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%) | |||||||||
2007 Election
2007 North Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | 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 | |||