Clydesdale West (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 West
|year =2007
|council =South Lanarkshire
|region =Scotland
|map1 =Clydesdale West.svg
|map2 =
|map_entity =South Lanarkshire
|map_year =2007–2017
|abolished =
|previous =Clyde Valley
Carluke/Crawforddyke
Carluke/Whitehill
Forth
Law/Carluke
|electorate =15,706 (2022)
|population =19,350 (2021){{Cite web|url=https://statistics.gov.scot/atlas/resource?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fid%2Fstatistical-geography%2FS13003095 |title=Clydesdale West |publisher=Scottish Government |access-date=9 March 2023}}
|elects_howmany=4
|councillor1=Eileen Logan
|party1 =Scottish Labour Party
|councillor2=Poppy Corbett
|party2 =Reform UK
|councillor3=David Shearer
|party3 =Scottish National Party
|councillor4=Lynsey Hamilton
|party4 =Scottish Labour Party
|towns =Carluke
|scot_parl =Clydesdale
|scot_region =South Scotland
|westminster =Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
|westminster2=Hamilton and Clyde Valley
}}
Clydesdale West is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 19,350 people.
The ward has produced strong results for both the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Labour. Initially, the SNP held half the seats in the ward before swinging towards Labour which has held half the seats since 2012.
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 West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained part of the former Clyde Valley and Forth wards as well as all of the former Carluke/Crawforddyke, Carluke/Whitehill and Law/Carluke wards. Clydesdale West covers an area in the north of South Lanarkshire next to its boundary with North Lanarkshire Council and takes in a rural area surrounding the town of Carluke including the villages of Braidwood, Crossford and Law.{{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"
!Year !colspan=8|Councillors |
| 2007
|rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | |Ian Gray |rowspan=6; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | |rowspan=6|David Shearer |rowspan=6; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |rowspan=6|Eileen Logan |style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party}}" | |Alex Allison |
|---|
| 2012
|rowspan=2|Pat Lee |rowspan=5; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |rowspan=5|Lynsey Hamilton |
| 2015
|style="background-color: {{party color|Solidarity (Scotland)}}" | |
| 2017
|rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party}}" | |rowspan=3|Poppy Corbett |
| 2022 |
| 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 West}}
=2017 election=
{{main|2017 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2017 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale West}}
=2012 election=
{{main|2012 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2012 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale West}}
=2007 election=
{{main|2007 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2007 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=Clydesdale West}}
Notes
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