East Kilbride South (ward) explained

East Kilbride South
Year:2007
Council:South Lanarkshire
Region:Scotland
Map1:East Kilbride South.svg
Map Entity:South Lanarkshire
Map Year:2007–2017
Previous:Greenhills
Hairmyres/Crosshouse
Heatheryknowe
Lindsay
Westwoodhill
Whitehills
Electorate:12,589 (2022)
Population:16,985 (2021)[1]
Elects Howmany:3
Councillor1:Archie Buchanan
Party1:Scottish National Party
Councillor2:Mathew Buchanan
Party2:Scottish Labour Party
Councillor3:Geri Gray
Party3:Scottish National Party
Towns:East Kilbride (part of)
Scot Parl:East Kilbride
Scot Parl2:Clydesdale
Scot Region:Central Scotland
Westminster:East Kilbride and Strathaven

East Kilbride South 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 16,985 people.

The ward is a Scottish National Party (SNP) stronghold with the party holding two of the three seats at every election since the ward was created.

Boundaries

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 East Kilbride South was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained part of the former Hairmyres/Crosshouse, Heatheryknowe, Lindsay and Westwoodhill wards as well as all of the former Greenhills and Whitehills wards. East Kilbride South covers a primarily urban area in southern East Kilbride including the Greenhills, Lindsayfield and Whitehills neighbourhoods.[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, a few streets around Owen Avenue/Dale Avenue (generally considered to belong to The Murray neighbourhood) were transferred to the East Kilbride Central South ward and a corridor of farmland north of the White Cart Water previously part of the Avondale and Stonehouse ward was added.[3]

Councillors

YearCouncillors
2007Archie Buchanan
(SNP)
Douglas Edwards
(SNP)
Jim Docherty
(Labour)
2012
2017Geri Gray
(SNP)
Fiona Dryburgh
(Labour/Lib Dem)
2019
2022Mathew Buchanan
(Labour)

Election results

2022 election

See main article: 2022 South Lanarkshire Council election.

2017 election

See main article: 2017 South Lanarkshire Council election.

2012 election

See main article: 2012 South Lanarkshire Council election.

2007 election

See main article: 2007 South Lanarkshire Council election.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: East Kilbride South . Scottish Government . 27 February 2023.
  2. Web site: Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area . Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland . May 2006 . 27 February 2023.
  3. Web site: Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area . Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland . May 2016 . 27 February 2023.