Blantyre (ward)

Blantyre is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. It elects four Councillors. Its territory mirrors the limits of the town of Blantyre. The population in 2018 was 16,101.[2]

Location of the ward [1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Hugh Dunsmuir (Labour)		Jim Handibode (Labour)		John McNamee (SNP)		Bert Thomson (Ind./ Labour)
2012
2015 by-	Mo Razzaq (Labour)
2017		3 seats		Maureen Chalmers (SNP)

Election Results

2017 Election

2017 South Lanarkshire Council election

Blantyre - 3 seats[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Mo Razzaq (incumbent)	31.00%	1,663
	SNP	Maureen Chalmers	25.30%	1,354
	SNP	Michael McGlynn	14.80%	797	815	827	838	860	879	902
	Labour	Bert Thomson (incumbent)	13.60%	731	980	980	988	1,013	1,051	1,278	1,533
	Conservative	Alan Fraser	11.10%	593	601	601	603	607	635
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Reid	1.90%	100	109	109	112	125
	Solidarity	Ashley Hubbard	1.40%	76	80	81	101
	Scottish Socialist	Gerry McMahon	0.90%	48	51	52
Electorate: 12,711   Valid: 5,362   Spoilt: 180   Quota: 1,341   Turnout: 5,542 (43.6%)

2015 by-election

Blantyre By-election (10 December 2015) - 1 Seat[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Mo Razzaq	47.2	1,476	1,483	1,504	1,536	1,589
	SNP	Gerry Chambers	39.6	1,236	1,246	1,259	1,314	1,327
	Conservative	Taylor Muir	4.5	140	156	172	173
	Scottish Socialist	Sean Baillie[5]	3.9	122	125	133
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Reid	2.9	92	97
	UKIP	Emma Jay Docherty	1.9	59
Electorate: 13,745   Valid: 3,125   Spoilt: 45   Quota: 1,563   Turnout: 3,170 (23.1%)

2012 Election

2012 South Lanarkshire Council election

Blantyre - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Labour	Hugh Dunsmuir (incumbent)	25.04	1,144
	SNP	Bert Thomson (incumbent)†††††	20.33	929
	Labour	Jim Handibode (incumbent)†††††††††	16.55	756	935.7
	Labour	John McNamee (incumbent)	12.67	579	600.9	616.9	617.4	621.4	626.2	638.7	686.5	751.7	843.7
	SNP	John Mullen	10.29	470	472.2	472.7	484.2	485.7	489.8	511.9	541.9	580.8
	Independent	Michael Martin	5.12	234	238.2	238.9	239.4	241.4	259.7	297	348.4
	CPA	Michael McGlynn	4.57	209	212	213.2	213.6	213.6	216.9	253.2
	Conservative	Isobel Black	3.85	176	179	179.4	179.7	187.7	190.8
	Independent	Gavin Wallace	0.88	40	41.4	41.6	41.9	45
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Watson	0.70	32	33	33.1	33.2
Electorate: 13,021   Valid: 4,569   Spoilt: 135   Quota: 914   Turnout: 4,704 (35.09%)

2007 Election

2007 South Lanarkshire Council election

South Lanarkshire council election, 2007: Bothwell and Uddingston

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Henry Mitchell	1,615	30.0	1	1
	Labour	Maureen Devlin	1,292	24.0	2	4
	SNP	James McGuigan	998	18.6	3	7
	Labour	Pat Morgan	696	12.9
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas Herbison	477	8.9
	Scottish Green	Kenneth Robb	168	3.1
	Solidarity	Denis Reilly	132	2.5

References

1. "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
2. Electoral Ward: Blantyre, Scottish Government Statistics
3. "Local Government Election results 2017". South Lanarkshire Council.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2015-12-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "Scottish Socialists Stand in Blantyre – SAVE OUR SERVICES". 9 November 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.