Rutherglen Central and North is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the

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. Created in 2007, it elects three councillors under the

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system. The ward's territory is centred around the densely populated Burgh of

Rutherglen Rutherglen (, sco, Ruglen, gd, An Ruadh-Ghleann) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, immediately south-east of the city of Glasgow, from its centre and directly south of the River Clyde. Having existed as a Lanarkshire burgh in its own ...

, also encompassing its surrounding suburban neighbourhoods such as Bankhead, Burnhill, Gallowflat and Farme Cross, and the unpopulated

Shawfield Shawfield is an industrial/commercial area of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located to the north of the town centre. It is bordered to the east by the River Clyde, to the north by the Glasgow neighbourhood of Oa ...

industrial area. The northern border is the

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, and the western border the long-established division with the

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. A 2017 national boundary review added some streets in the south of the ward (around Overtoun Park, Dryburgh Avenue and Limeside Avenue). The population in 2018 was 14,489. The ward was formed from roughly the boundaries of three wards under the previous single-member system used by the local authority from the creation of South Lanarkshire in 1995 until 2007: ''Bankhead'', ''Burgh'' and ''Rutherglen West''.South Lanarkshire Council Area
3rd Reviews of Electoral Arrangements Maps : Wards 1999 - 2007,

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Prior to this, the town was within the Glasgow District under

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- one of its single-member wards from 1984 was ''Rutherglen'', which included much of the same area as the current ''Rutherglen Central and North'', excepting the Burnhill and Newfield neighbourhoods which were in the ''Toryglen'' ward, but with the addition of parts of Burnside north of the

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railway tracks (i.e. the ''Stonelaw'' ward in the 1995 to 2007 system).

Councillors

Rutherglen War Memorial (geograph 4120906)

Election Results

2022 Election

2017 By-election

2017 Election

2012 Election

2012 South Lanarkshire Council election Elections to South Lanarkshire Council took place on 3 May 2012 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. Labour retained their position as the largest party on the council as they gained three seat from 2007 but we ...

2007 Election

2007 South Lanarkshire Council election Elections to South Lanarkshire Council took place on 3 May 2007 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election was the first to use the 20 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act ...

Notes

References

{{Wards of South Lanarkshire Wards of South Lanarkshire Rutherglen