Clydesdale South (ward)
{{Short description|Electoral ward in South Lanarkshire, Scotland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox Scotland ward
|name =Clydesdale South
|year =2007
|council =South Lanarkshire
|region =Scotland
|map1 =Clydesdale South.svg
|map2 =
|map_entity =South Lanarkshire
|map_year =2007–2017
|abolished =
|previous =Blackwood
Clyde Valley
Douglas
Lesmahagow
|electorate =11,706 (2022)
|population =14,621 (2021){{Cite web|url=https://statistics.gov.scot/atlas/resource?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fid%2Fstatistical-geography%2FS13003098 |title=Clydesdale South |publisher=Scottish Government |access-date=9 March 2023}}
|elects_howmany=3
|councillor1=Mark Horsham
|party1 =Scottish National Party
|councillor2=Ross Gowland
|party2 =Scottish Labour Party
|councillor3=Ross Lambie
|party3 =Reform UK
|towns =Lesmahagow
|scot_parl =Clydesdale
|scot_region =South Scotland
|westminster =Hamilton and Clyde Valley
|westminster2=Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
}}
Clydesdale 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 14,621 people.
The ward was previously a Labour stronghold with the party holding all three seats between 2014 and 2017. However, it has since become split between Labour, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and 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 South was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Lesmahagow ward and part of the former Clyde Valley ward as well as all of the former Blackwood and Douglas wards. Unlike the name suggests, Clydesdale South covers a primarily rural area in western Clydesdale in the southwest of South Lanarkshire next to its boundary with East Ayrshire. The largest settlements in the ward are Blackwood/Kirkmuirhill and Lesmahagow and it includes the villages of Coalburn, Douglas and Rigside.{{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=25 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=25 February 2023}}
Councillors
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Year !colspan=8|Councillors |
| 2007
|rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | |rowspan=2|Archie Manson |rowspan=4; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |Danny Meikle |rowspan=3; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |rowspan=3|Alex McInnes |
|---|
| 2012
|rowspan=5|George Greenshields |
| 2014 by-election
|style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |Gordon Muir |
| 2017
|rowspan=4; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | |rowspan=6|Mark Horsham |rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party}}" | |rowspan=3|Colin McGavigan |
| 2018
|rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Independent (politician)}}" | |
| 2020
|style="background-color: {{party color|Independent (politician)}}" | |
| 2022
|rowspan=3; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |rowspan=3|Ross Gowland |rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party}}" | |rowspan=3|Ross Lambie |
| 2023
|rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Independent (politician)}}" | |
| 2025
|style="background-color: {{party color|Reform UK}}" | |
Election results
=2022 election=
{{main|2022 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2022 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale South}}
=2017 election=
{{main|2017 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2017 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale South}}
=2014 by-election=
{{:2012 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale South 2014}}
=2012 election=
{{main|2012 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2012 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale South}}
=2007 election=
{{main|2007 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2007 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale South}}
Notes
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