East Kilbride Central North (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 =East Kilbride Central North
|year =2007
|council =South Lanarkshire
|region =Scotland
|map1 =East Kilbride Central North.svg
|map2 =
|map_entity =South Lanarkshire
|map_year =2007–2017
|abolished =
|previous =Blacklaw
Calderglen
East Mains
Heatheryknowe
Maxwellton
West Mains
|electorate =12,861 (2022)
|population =16,547 (2021){{Cite web|url=https://statistics.gov.scot/atlas/resource?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstatistics.gov.scot%2Fid%2Fstatistical-geography%2FS13003102 |title=East Kilbride Central North |publisher=Scottish Government |access-date=9 March 2023}}
|elects_howmany=3
|councillor1=Grant Ferguson
|party1 =Scottish National Party
|councillor2=Joe Fagan
|party2 =Scottish Labour Party
|councillor3=Hugh McDonald
|party3 =Scottish National Party
|towns =East Kilbride (part of)
|scot_parl =East Kilbride
|scot_region =Central Scotland
|westminster =East Kilbride and Strathaven
}}
East Kilbride Central North is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward initially elected four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 16,547 people. Following a boundary review, the ward has elected three councillors since 2017.
The ward has produced strong results for both Labour and the Scottish National Party (SNP) with the parties initially sharing the seats evenly. However, since 2017, the ward has become an SNP stronghold with the party holding two of the three seats.
Following the 2022 election, the ward has been the seat of the leader of South Lanarkshire Council, Cllr Joe Fagan.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-61497306 |title=Labour-led administration takes over South Lanarkshire Council |publisher=BBC |date=18 May 2022 |access-date=19 May 2022}}
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 Central North was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former East Mains and West Mains wards as well as part of the former Heatheryknowe and Calderglen wards and all of the former Blacklaw and Maxwellton wards. As the name suggests, East Kilbride Central North covers the parts of East Kilbride just north of the town centre with the southern boundary being the Queensway (A726) dual carriageway, including the central retail and administrative area itself as well as the neighbourhoods of East Mains, Kirktonholme, the Village and West Mains, most of St Leonards (west of High Common Road) and part of Calderwood (Maxwellton/west of Calderwood Road).{{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=27 February 2023}} Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, a few streets in the east of the ward between Calderwood Road, Morrishall Road and Hunter Primary School were transferred to the East Kilbride East ward. Although this only had a small effect on the electorate, it caused the loss of one seat from the original four to balance with other wards with similar populations.{{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=27 February 2023}}
Councillors
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Election !colspan=8|Councillors |
| 2007
|rowspan=5; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |rowspan=2|Alice Marie Mitchell |rowspan=5; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | |rowspan=3|Sheena Wardhaugh |rowspan=5; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | |rowspan=2|Anne Maggs |rowspan=2; style="background-color: {{party color|Scottish Labour Party}}" | |rowspan=2|Christopher Thompson |
|---|
| 2012 |
| 2017
|rowspan=3|Joe Fagan |rowspan=3|Hugh MacDonald !colspan=2; rowspan=3 {{n/a |
|-
!2019 by-election
|rowspan=2|Grant Ferguson
(SNP)
|-
!2022
|}
Election results
=2022 election=
{{main|2022 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2022 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=East Kilbride Central North}}
=2019 by-election=
{{:2017 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=East Kilbride Central North 2019}}
=2017 election=
{{main|2017 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2017 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=East Kilbride Central North}}
=2012 election=
{{main|2012 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2012 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=East Kilbride Central North}}
=2007 election=
{{main|2007 South Lanarkshire Council election}}
{{:2007 South Lanarkshire Council election|transcludesection=East Kilbride Central North}}
Notes
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