Cumnock South and Old Cumnock was one of 30
electoral wards
The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors. The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and dist ...
of
East Ayrshire Council
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...
. Originally created in 1984, the ward was initially within
Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council before the
local government reforms in the 1990s. The ward elected one councillor using the
first-past-the-post voting
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
electoral system.
The ward was a
Labour
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the labour ...
stronghold as the party successfully held the seat at every election. David Sneller was the only councillor elected as he represented the ward from 1984 to 1999.
In 1999, the ward was abolished with the majority of the area represented by the ward was placed into the new
Ochiltree, Skares, Netherthird and Craigens ward. The remainder of the ward was split between the
Auchinleck
Auchinleck ( ; sco, Affleck ;
,
Cumnock East and
Cumnock West wards.
Boundaries
The Cumnock South and Old Cumnock ward was created for the 1984 local elections by the Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in 1981 from the former
Cumnock Burgh and
Old Cumnock Parish wards. The ward took in the southern part of
Cumnock
Cumnock (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cumnag'') is a town and former civil parish located in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The town sits at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water. There are three neighbouring housing projects which lie just ...
including Netherthird as well as
Skares. Minor changes were made to the ward's boundaries in Cumnock town centre following the Second Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements in 1994. After the implementation of the
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994
The Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which created the current local government structure of 32 unitary authorities covering the whole of Scotland.
It abolished the two-tie ...
, the boundaries proposed by the second review became the Formation Electoral Arrangements for the newly created
East Ayrshire Council
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth.
Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...
– an amalgamation of Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council and
Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Council. In 1998, the ward was abolished by the Third Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements. The majority of the area represented by the ward was placed into the new
Ochiltree, Skares, Netherthird and Craigens ward. The remainder of the ward was split between the
Auchinleck
Auchinleck ( ; sco, Affleck ;
,
Cumnock East and
Cumnock West wards.
Councillors
Election results
1995 election
1992 election
1988 election
1984 election
References
{{Wards of East Ayrshire
Wards of East Ayrshire (1995–2007)
Cumnock
Wards of Cumnock and Doon Valley (1974–1995)
1984 establishments in Scotland
1999 disestablishments in Scotland