East Kilbride West
South Lanarkshire
Outline map
Boundary of East Kilbride West in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population13,737 (2021)[1]
Electorate13,412 (2023)
Major settlementsEast Kilbride (part of)
Scottish Parliament constituencyEast Kilbride
Scottish Parliament regionCentral Scotland
UK Parliament constituencyEast Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Current ward
Created2007 (2007)
Number of councillors3
CouncillorMonique McAdams (Labour)
CouncillorDavid Watson (Independent)
CouncillorKirsty Williams (Labour)
Created fromEast Mains
Hairmyres/Crosshouse
Lindsay
Mossneuk/Kittoch
Stewartfield
West Mains

East Kilbride West is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 13,737 people.

The ward has politically been split between the Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour and the Conservatives. Each party had held one of the three seats from the ward's creation until Cllr David Watson resigned from the SNP to become an independent in 2018. The 2022 election saw the SNP regain their seat from the Conservatives.

Boundaries

The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so East Kilbride West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Stewartfield ward, part of the previous Hairmyres/Crosshouse and Lindsay wards as well as all of the former Mossneuk/Kittoch ward and a small area from each of the former East Mains and West Mains wards. East Kilbride West covers an area in the west of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with Glasgow City Council and East Renfrewshire Council. Its territory covers the parts of East Kilbride on the north-west and western peripheries of the town, including the neighbourhoods of Gardenhall, Hairmyres, Mossneuk, Nerston (the brownfield residential developments, but not the older separate hamlet), Newlandsmuir, Philipshill and Stewartfield, plus the College Milton industrial area and the outlying village of Thorntonhall.[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.[3]

Councillors

Year Councillors
2007 Graham Simpson
(Conservative)		 Michael McCann
(Labour)		 David Watson
(SNP/
Ind.)
2010
by-election		 Alan Scott
(Labour)
2012 Janice McGinlay
(Labour)
2017 Ian Harrow
(Conservative)		 Monique McAdams
(Labour)
2018
2022 Ali Salamati
(SNP)
2023
by-election		 Kirsty Williams
(Labour)

Election results

2023 by-election

East Kilbride West by-election (6 July 2023) - 1 seat
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
123456
Labour Kirsty Williams 40.5 1,386 1,392 1,434 1,469 1,500 1,845
Conservative Bill Dorrian 26.4 904 914 919 933 937 965
SNP Robert Gillies 22.7 778 778 785 806 899  
Scottish Green Cameron Eadie 3.8 131 131 139 155    
Independent Kristofer Keane 2.9 99 112 123      
Liberal Democrats Jake Stevenson 2.4 83 85        
Scottish Family Jonathan Jack Richardson 1.2 42          
Electorate: 13,412   Valid: 3,450   Spoilt: 27   Quota: 1,712   Turnout: 25.7%  

    Source:[4][5]

    2022 election

    East Kilbride West - 3 seats
    PartyCandidateFPv%Count
    12345678
    Labour Monique McAdams (incumbent) 26.5 1,780              
    Conservative Ian Harrow (incumbent) 20.0 1,339 1,358 1,360 1,395 1,426 1,441 1,448  
    Independent David Watson (incumbent) 18.6 1,248 1,269 1,270 1,309 1,365 1,458 1,555 2,220
    SNP Craig Sloan 15.5 1,041 1,048 1,049 1,053 1,068      
    SNP Ali Salamati 15.4 1,031 1,039 1,040 1,051 1,072 1,962    
    Liberal Democrats Huaiquan Zhang 2.1 142 158 158 166        
    Scottish Family Denise Hay 1.6 110 112 121          
    UKIP Yvonne MacKay 0.3 18 18            
    Electorate: 13,319   Valid: 6,709   Spoilt: 70   Quota: 1,678   Turnout: 50.9%  

      Source:[6][7]

      2017 election

      East Kilbride West - 3 seats
      PartyCandidateFPv%Count
      1234567
      Conservative Ian Harrow 37.3 2,363            
      Labour Monique McAdams 20.7 1,315 1,529 1,571 1,612      
      SNP David Watson (incumbent)[note 1] 20.5 1,298 1,319 1,322 1,370 1,373 1,427 2,389
      SNP Ali Salamati 14.2 900 914 917 986 988 1,065  
      Liberal Democrats Ewan McRobert 3.5 223 374 397 447 458    
      Scottish Green Billy McLean 3.1 194 216 229        
      UKIP David Mackay 0.8 49 140          
      Electorate: 12,151   Valid: 6,342   Spoilt: 74   Quota: 1,586   Turnout: 52.8%  

        Source:[9][10]

        2012 election

        East Kilbride West - 3 seats
        PartyCandidateFPv%Count
        123456
        Conservative Graham Simpson (incumbent) 25.3 1,197          
        SNP David Watson (incumbent) 24.2 1,148 1,150 1,188      
        Labour Janice McGinlay 17.0 805 806 849 849 975 1,741
        Labour Alan Scott (incumbent) 16.9 800 801 823 823 916  
        SNP John Reilly 12.2 579 580 605 607    
        East Kilbride Alliance Brian Jones 4.5 211 213        
        Electorate: 12,092   Valid: 4,740   Spoilt: 44   Quota: 1,186   Turnout: 39.2%  

          Source:[11]

          2010 by-election

          East Kilbride West by-election (28 October 2010) - 1 seat
          PartyCandidateFPv%Count
          123456
          Labour Alan Scott 41.4 847 863 873 892 973 1,297
          SNP Pat McGuire 27.9 571 587 606 641 761  
          Conservative Ian Harrow 19.7 403 427 442 455    
          Scottish Green Raymond Burke 4.0 82 85 100      
          East Kilbride Alliance Brian Jones 3.5 71 76        
          Liberal Democrats Gordon Smith 3.4 70          
          Electorate: 12,024   Valid: 2,044   Quota: 1,023   Turnout: 17.0%  

            Source:[12]

            2007 election

            East Kilbride West - 3 seats
            PartyCandidateFPv%Count
            1234567
            SNP David Watson[note 2] 30.2 1,861            
            Labour Michael McCann[note 3][note 4] 29.4 1,805            
            Conservative Graham Simpson 14.0 860 906 919 941 1,019 1,197 ???
            Labour Margaret McCulloch 11.2 688 730 914 956 1,000 1,195  
            Liberal Democrats Pauline Aaron 7.1 437 501 519 615 725    
            East Kilbride Alliance Brian Jones 4.2 259 289 295 348      
            Scottish Green Kitty MacKenzie 3.8 232 283 292        
            Electorate: 10,938   Valid: 6,142   Quota: 1,536   Turnout: 56.7%  

              Source:[13][14]

              Notes

              1. ↑ On 1 November 2018, East Kilbride West SNP councillor David Watson resigned from the party and became an independent after a legal dispute over an employee grievance.[8]
              2. ↑ Returning councillor for Hairmyres/Crosshouse single-member ward.
              3. ↑ Returning councillor for Mossneuk/Kittoch single-member ward.
              4. ↑ East Kilbride West councillor Michael McCann was elected as MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow in May 2010 and he subsequently resigned his council seat. A by-election, held on 28 October 2010, was won by Labour's Alan Scott.

              References

              1. ↑ "East Kilbride West". Scottish Government. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
              2. ↑ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
              3. ↑ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
              4. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West By-election Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
              5. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West By-election Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
              6. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
              7. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
              8. ↑ Findlay, Nicola (1 November 2018). "East Kilbride councillor quits SNP Group of South Lanarkshire Council". Daily Record.
              9. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
              10. ↑ "Ward 9 East Kilbride West Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
              11. ↑ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
              12. ↑ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - East Kilbride West Ward". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
              13. ↑ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
              14. ↑ Bochel, H. M.; Denver, D. T. (2007). Scottish Council Elections 2007 Results and Statistics (PDF). Lincoln: Policy Studies Research Centre, University of Lincoln. ISBN 978-1-874474-36-4. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
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