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Motherwell North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It elects four Councillors and covers part of Motherwell proper (the Cleekhimin, Coursington and Globe neighbourhoods) plus the nearby, adjoining villages of Carfin, Newarthill and New Stevenston, with a combined population of 18,191 in 2019.[1]

Councillors

Election Councillors
2007 rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Gordon Stewart
(SNP) 		rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | Peter Nolan
(Labour) 		rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | Helen McKenna
(Labour) 		rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | Annita McAuley
(Labour)
2012 Shahid Farooq
(SNP)
2017 rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Ann Weir
(SNP) 		Pat O'Rourke
(Labour) 		Olivia Carson
(Labour)

Election Results

2017 Election

2017 North Lanarkshire Council election [2]

Motherwell North - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
SNP Shahid Farooq (incumbent) 19.83 1,123 1,173        
SNP Ann Weir 19.37 1,097 1,164        
Labour Pat O'Rourke (incumbent) 18.38 1,041 1,182        
Labour Olivia Carson 16.46 932 1,018 1,057 1,072 1,084 1,582
Conservative Ashley Baird 16.03 908 988 989 992 994  
Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire Helen McKenna (incumbent) 9.92 562          
Electorate: 13,646   Valid: 5,663   Spoilt: 164   Quota: 1,133   Turnout: 5,827 (42.7%)  

2012 Election

2012 North Lanarkshire Council election [3]

Motherwell North - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Labour Peter Nolan (incumbent)††††††† 31.1% 1,548            
Labour Helen McKenna (incumbent)††††††† 18.9% 941 1,329.3          
Labour Annita McAuley (incumbent)††† 18.0% 897 965.6 1,244.8        
SNP Shahid Farooq 13.9% 689 709.4 721.9 736.1 757.9 782.6 1,304.8
SNP Gordon Stewart (incumbent) 11.5% 572 588.1 596.9 612.1 631.9 691.5  
Conservative Neil Richardson 4.4% 217 224.1 228.1 235.8 278    
Liberal Democrats Fraser MacGregor 2.2% 109 115.1 118.3 130.2      
Electorate: 13,573   Valid: 4,973   Spoilt: 87   Quota: 995   Turnout: 5,060 (37.28%)  

2007 Election

2007 North Lanarkshire Council election

North Lanarkshire council election, 2007: Motherwell North
Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count
Labour Peter Nolan 1,532 23.4 1 1
SNP Gordon Stewart 1,480 22.6 1 1
Labour Helen McKenna 1,234 18.9 1 2
Labour Annita McAuley 1,067 16.3 1 7
Liberal Democrats Stuart Douglas 465 7.1
Conservative Neil Richardson 383 5.9
Independent Tom Kennedy 379 5.8

References

  1. ^ Electoral Ward: Motherwell North, Scottish Government Statistics
  2. ^ https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=32951
  3. ^ https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=24109&contactid=12585
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