Clydesdale North (ward)
{{Short description|Electoral ward in Scotland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox Scotland ward
|name =Clydesdale North
|year =2007
|council =South Lanarkshire
|region =Scotland
|map1 =Clydesdale North.svg
|map2 =
|map_entity =South Lanarkshire
|map_year =2007–2017
|abolished =
|previous =Carstairs/Carnwath
Clyde Valley
Forth
Lanark North
Lanark South
Lesmahagow
|electorate =11,889 (2022)
|population =14,726 (2021){{Cite web|url=https://statistics.gov.scot/atlas/resource?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fid%2Fstatistical-geography%2FS13003096 |title=Clydesdale North |publisher=Scottish Government |access-date=9 March 2023}}
|elects_howmany=3
|councillor1=Catherine McClymont
|party1 =Scottish Labour Party
|councillor2=Julia Marrs
|party2 =Scottish National Party
|councillor3=Richard Elliot-Lockhart
|party3 =Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
|towns =Lanark
|scot_parl =Clydesdale
|scot_region =South Scotland
|westminster =Hamilton and Clyde Valley
|westminster2=Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
}}
Clydesdale North 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 14,726 people.
The ward has politically been split between the Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour and the Conservatives. Each party has held one of the three seats since the creation of the ward apart from the period following the 2012 election when independent councillor Ed Archer won a seat from the Conservatives.
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 Clydesdale North was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Forth ward, part of the previous Clyde Valley ward as well as all of the former Lanark North and Lanark South wards and a small area from each of the former Carstairs/Carnwath and Lesmahagow wards. Clydesdale North covers an area in the northeast of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with North Lanarkshire Council and West Lothian Council and takes in the town of Lanark plus Kirkfieldbank and a rural area to the northeast including the villages of Forth and Auchengray. The ward also contains the New Lanark UNESCO World Heritage Site.{{Cite web|url=https://boundaries.scot/sites/default/files/SOUTH_LANARKSHIRE.pdf |title=Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area |publisher=Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland |date=May 2006 |access-date=21 February 2023}} Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.{{Cite web|url=https://boundaries.scot/electoral/5th_reviews/southlanarkshire_report.pdf |title=Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area |publisher=Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland |date=May 2016 |access-date=21 February 2023}}
Councillors
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Election !colspan=8|Councillors |
| 2007
|rowspan=4; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | |rowspan=1|George Sutherland |rowspan=4; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |rowspan=1|Mary McNeill |rowspan=1; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party}}" | |rowspan=1|Patrick Ross-Taylor |
|---|
| 2012
|rowspan=1|Vivienne Shaw |rowspan=3|Catherine McClymont |rowspan=1; style="background-color: {{party color|Independent politician}}" | |rowspan=1|Ed Archer |
| 2017
|rowspan=2|Julia Marrs |rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party}}" | |rowspan=2|Richard Eliott-Lockhart |
| 2022 |
Election results
=2022 election=
{{main|2022 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2022 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale North}}
=2017 election=
{{main|2017 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2017 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale North}}
=2012 election=
{{main|2012 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2012 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale North}}
=2007 election=
{{main|2007 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2007 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale North}}
Notes
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