Hamilton North and East is one of the 20
electoral wards
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of
South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the
single transferable vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
electoral system and covers an area with a population of 15,004 people.
The ward was previously a
Labour
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* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
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** Organized labour and the labour ...
stronghold with the party holding two of the three seats between 2007 and 2017. However, it has since become split between Labour, the
Scottish National Party
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(SNP) and the
Conservatives with each party holding one seat since 2017.
Boundaries
The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the
2007 Scottish local elections
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. As a result of the
Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the
single transferable vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
electoral system from 2007 onwards so Hamilton North and East was formed from an amalgamation of several previous
first-past-the-post
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 their ...
wards. It contained all of the former
Whitehill ward, the majority of the former
Hamilton Centre/Ferniegair ward and part of the former
Burnbank/Blantyre and
Hamilton Centre North wards as well as a small part of the former
Udston and
Wellhall/Earnock ward. Hamilton North and East covers the northern and eastern parts of
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to:
People
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including the town centre,
Barncluith,
Burnbank, Chantinghall,
Hamilton West and
Whitehill, plus the separate village of
Ferniegair
Ferniegair is a village across the Avon Water from Hamilton, on the A72 road to Larkhall in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The village contains the entrance to Chatelherault Country Park and Hamilton Golf Club. The railway station was re-opened ...
/Allanton. The
River Clyde
The River Clyde ( gd, Abhainn Chluaidh, , sco, Clyde Watter, or ) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. It is the ninth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and the third-longest in Scotland. It runs through the major cit ...
forms the ward's eastern boundary, coinciding with the council's border with
North Lanarkshire Council, and the
Avon Water forms the ward's southwestern boundary. Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the
2017 Scottish local elections
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, streets south of the town centre between Portland Place, Burnblea Street and Kemp Street were transferred to
Hamilton South while streets around Ballantrae Road were transferred into the ward from
Blantyre
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.
Councillors
Election results
2022 election
2017 election
2016 by-election
2012 election
2007 election
Notes
References
{{Wards of South Lanarkshire
Wards of South Lanarkshire
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire