Clydesdale South (ward)

Clydesdale South is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward [1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Archie Manson (SNP)		Danny Meikle (Labour)		Alex McInnes (Labour)
2012	George Greenshields (Labour)
2014 by-			Gordon Muir (Labour)
2017			Mark Horsham (SNP)		Colin McGavigan (Conservative)

Election Results

2017 Election

2017 South Lanarkshire Council election [2]

Clydesdale South - 3 seats[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Conservative	Colin McGavigan	21.97	1,198	1,221	1,243	1,260	1,314	1,324	1,333	1,411
	Labour	George Greenshields (incumbent)^[F]	18.91	1,031	1,038	1,050	1,076	1,206	1,229	1,280	1,992
	SNP	Mark Horsham	16.03	874	875	884	915	948	1,652
	Labour	Gordon Muir (incumbent)	15.88	866	868	880	898	983	1,022	1,053
	SNP	Sandra Mills	13.88	757	759	761	801	835
	Independent	Danny Meikle	7.8	425	428	434	443
	Scottish Green	Craig Dalzell	2.55	139	148	174
	Liberal Democrats	Kaitey Blair	1.78	97	101
	UKIP	Janice MacKay	1.19	65
Electorate: 11,568   Valid: 5,452   Spoilt: 89   Quota: 1,364   Turnout: 47.9%

2014 by-election

Clydesdale South By-election (5 June 2014) [4]- 1 Seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Gordon Muir	40.8%	1,492	1,512	1,559	1,819	2,366
	SNP	George Sneddon	32.0%	1,170	1,203	1,260	1,356
	Conservative	Donna Hood	18.0%	659	674	744
	UKIP	Donald MacKay	6.4%	233	247
	Scottish Green	Ruth Thomas	2.8%	104
Electorate:     Valid: 3,658   Spoilt: 52   Quota: 1,830   Turnout: 3,710 (30.97%)

2012 Election

2012 South Lanarkshire Council election

Clydesdale South - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Archie Manson (incumbent)††††††	34.96	1,625
	Labour	George Greenshields	24.72	1,149	1,170.3
	Labour	Alex McInnes (incumbent)	18.83	875	888.6	893.8	921.4	1044.4	1,250.6
	Conservative	Colin McGavigan	10.48	487	494.1	494.3	561.7
	SNP	Tom McDonald	6.73	313	703.9	704.4	736.4	852
	UKIP	Chris McEwan	4.28	199	206.7	206.9
Electorate: 11,620   Valid: 4,648   Spoilt: 113   Quota: 1,163   Turnout: 4,761 (40.0%)

2007 Election

2007 South Lanarkshire Council election

South Lanarkshire council election, 2007: Clydesdale South

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Danny Meikle	1,709	27.7	1	1
	Labour	Alex McInnes	1,245	20.2	3	5
	SNP	Archie Manson	1,156	18.7	2	5
	SNP	David Smart	1,148	18.6
	Conservative	John Baillie	734	11.9
	Scottish Green	Billy McLean	183	3.0

References

1. "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
2. Council, South Lanarkshire. "South Lanarkshire Council online information | Council and government | Elections". www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk.
3. "Local Government Election results 2017". South Lanarkshire Council.
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-11-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)