Hamilton South | |
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South Lanarkshire | |
Population | 22,032 (2020) [1] |
Electorate | 16,516 (2022) |
Major settlements | Hamilton (part of) |
Scottish Parliament constituency | Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse |
Scottish Parliament region | Central Scotland |
UK Parliament constituency | Lanark and Hamilton East Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
Current ward | |
Created | 2007 |
Number of councillors | 4 |
Councillor | John Ross (SNP) |
Councillor | Gavin Wylie Keatt (Labour) |
Councillor | Celine Handibode (Labour) |
Councillor | Helen Toner (SNP) |
Created from | Cadzow Hamilton Centre/Ferniegair Hamilton Centre North Low Waters Silvertonhill Woodhead/Meikle Earnock |
Hamilton South 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 22,032 people.
The ward has produced strong results for both the Scottish National Party (SNP) – who won half the seats at the 2012, 2017 and 2022 elections – and Labour who won half the seats at the 2007, 2012 and 2022 elections. Following a by-election win in 2013, Labour held three of the four seats.
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 Hamilton South was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Low Waters and Silvertonhill wards as well as part of the former Cadzow and Woodhead/Meikle Earnock wards and a small part of the former Hamilton Centre/Ferniegair and Hamilton Centre North wards. Hamilton South covers the southern part of Hamilton including the Avon Grove, Cadzow, Eddlewood, Fairhill, Laighstonehall, Low Waters, Meikle Earnock, Silvertonhill, Torhead Farm and Woodhead neighbourhoods. [2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, streets around Portland Place, Burnblea Street and Kemp Street were added to the ward from Hamilton North and East which resulted in the ward's northeastern boundary moving to the Argyle Line railway tracks. [3]
Year | Councillors | |||||||
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2007 | Joe Lowe (Labour/Independent) | Brian McCaig (Labour) | Bobby Lawson (SNP) | John Murray (Conservative) | ||||
2012 | Angela Crawley (SNP) | |||||||
2013 by-election | Stuart Gallacher (Labour) | |||||||
2015 by-election | John Ross (SNP) | |||||||
2017 | Lynne Mailon (Conservative) | Josh Wilson (SNP) | ||||||
2017 | ||||||||
2022 | Gavin Wylie Keatt (Labour) | Celine Handibode (Labour) | Helen Toner (SNP) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
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1 | 2 | ||||
SNP | John Ross (incumbent) | 26.3 | 1,921 | ||
Labour | Gavin Wylie Keatt | 23.1 | 1,688 | ||
Labour | Celine Handibode | 22.3 | 1,632 | ||
SNP | Helen Toner | 15.1 | 1,105 | 1,525 | |
Conservative | Lynne Nailon (incumbent) | 13.1 | 960 | 967 | |
Electorate: 16,516 Valid: 7,306 Spoilt: 193 Quota: 1,462 Turnout: 45.4% |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
SNP | John Ross (incumbent) | 30.6 | 2,167 | |||||||
Labour | Joe Lowe (incumbent) [note 1] | 25.7 | 1,818 | |||||||
Conservative | Lynne Nailon | 21.8 | 1,544 | |||||||
Labour | Brian McCaig (incumbent) | 9.1 | 643 | 669 | 991 | 1,020 | 1,055 | 1,177 | ||
SNP | Josh Wilson | 6.7 | 475 | 1,105 | 1,112 | 1,115 | 1,209 | 1,245 | 1,485 | |
Green | John Kane | 3.0 | 216 | 249 | 257 | 265 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Joanne Ferguson | 3.0 | 210 | 228 | 244 | 282 | 345 | |||
Electorate: 16,328 Valid: 7,073 Spoilt: 177 Quota: 1,415 Turnout: 44.4% |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
SNP | John Ross | 48.0 | 1,881 | 1,883 | 1,888 | 1,905 | 1919 | 1,988 | |
Labour | Jim Lee | 35.6 | 1,396 | 1,398 | 1,405 | 1,410 | 1,425 | 1,460 | |
Conservative | Lynne Nailon | 8.9 | 349 | 349 | 354 | 365 | 389 | 394 | |
Green | John Kane | 3.2 | 127 | 128 | 132 | 135 | 146 | ||
Scottish Christian | Craig Smith | 2.0 | 77 | 80 | 81 | 84 | |||
UKIP | Donald Murdo MacKay | 1.1 | 43 | 44 | 45 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Cockburn | 0.8 | 32 | 34 | |||||
Pirate | Andrew McCallum | 0.3 | 13 | ||||||
Electorate: 14,811 Valid: 3,918 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,960 Turnout: 26.8% |
Source: [9]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Labour | Stuart Gallacher | 51.7 | 1,781 | |
SNP | Josh Wilson | 32.5 | 1,120 | |
Conservative | Lynne Nailon | 9.4 | 322 | |
Scottish Christian | Craig Martin | 3.9 | 133 | |
UKIP | Josh Richardson | 2.5 | 86 | |
Electorate: 14,478 Valid: 3,442 Spoilt: 43 Quota: 1,722 Turnout: 24.1% |
Source: [10]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Labour | Joe Lowe (incumbent) | 36.6 | 1,975 | |||||||
SNP | Angela Crawley [note 2] | 23.2 | 1,255 | |||||||
Labour | Brian McCaig (incumbent) | 14.8 | 800 | 1,512 | ||||||
SNP | Bobby Lawson (incumbent) [note 3] | 9.3 | 502 | 537 | 599 | 747 | 773 | 861 | 988 | |
Conservative | John Murray (incumbent) | 9.2 | 496 | 516 | 542 | 545 | 584 | 654 | ||
Scottish Senior Citizens | David Holland | 3.7 | 199 | 234 | 314 | 324 | 380 | |||
Scottish Christian | Craig Smith | 3.1 | 165 | 176 | 198 | 200 | ||||
Electorate: 14,383 Valid: 5,392 Spoilt: 134 Quota: 1,079 Turnout: 37.5% |
Source: [13]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Labour | Joe Lowe [note 4] | 34.9 | 2,626 | ||||||||
SNP | Bobby Lawson | 23.8 | 1,791 | ||||||||
Labour | Brian McCaig [note 5] | 13.4 | 1,005 | 1,685 | |||||||
Conservative | John Murray | 10.7 | 808 | 837 | 872 | 883 | 906 | 942 | 1,121 | ??? | |
Independent | John Carracher | 6.2 | 464 | 531 | 564 | 584 | 611 | 740 | 876 | ||
Liberal Democrats | John Oswald | 5.7 | 427 | 459 | 509 | 532 | 633 | 664 | |||
Independent | David Holland | 2.9 | 215 | 255 | 276 | 283 | 300 | ||||
Green | Denize McBride | 2.5 | 188 | 219 | 265 | 276 | |||||
Electorate: 15,037 Valid: 7,524 Quota: 1,505 Turnout: 51.0% |
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