| Hamilton South | |
|---|---|
| South Lanarkshire | |
 Boundary of Hamilton South in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017. | |
| Population | 22,032 (2020)[1] |
| Electorate | 16,516 (2022) |
| Major settlements | Hamilton (part of) |
| Scottish Parliament constituency | Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse |
| Scottish Parliament region | Central Scotland |
| UK Parliament constituency | Lanark and Hamilton East Rutherglen and Hamilton West |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Number of councillors | 4 |
| Councillor | John Ross (SNP) |
| Councillor | Gavin Wylie Keatt (Labour) |
| Councillor | Celine Handibode (Labour) |
| Councillor | Helen Toner (SNP) |
| Created from | Cadzow Hamilton Centre/Ferniegair Hamilton Centre North Low Waters Silvertonhill Woodhead/Meikle Earnock |
Hamilton South is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 22,032 people.
The ward has produced strong results for both the Scottish National Party (SNP) – who won half the seats at the 2012, 2017 and 2022 elections – and Labour who won half the seats at the 2007, 2012 and 2022 elections. Following a by-election win in 2013, Labour held three of the four seats.
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 Hamilton South was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Low Waters and Silvertonhill wards as well as part of the former Cadzow and Woodhead/Meikle Earnock wards and a small part of the former Hamilton Centre/Ferniegair and Hamilton Centre North wards. Hamilton South covers the southern part of Hamilton including the Avon Grove, Cadzow, Eddlewood, Fairhill, Laighstonehall, Low Waters, Meikle Earnock, Silvertonhill, Torhead Farm and Woodhead neighbourhoods.[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, streets around Portland Place, Burnblea Street and Kemp Street were added to the ward from Hamilton North and East which resulted in the ward's northeastern boundary moving to the Argyle Line railway tracks.[3]
Councillors
| Year | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Joe Lowe (Labour/Independent) |
Brian McCaig (Labour) |
Bobby Lawson (SNP) |
John Murray (Conservative) | ||||
| 2012 | Angela Crawley (SNP) | |||||||
| 2013 by-election |
Stuart Gallacher (Labour) | |||||||
| 2015 by-election |
John Ross (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Lynne Mailon (Conservative) |
Josh Wilson (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Gavin Wylie Keatt (Labour) |
Celine Handibode (Labour) |
Helen Toner (SNP) | |||||
Election results
2022 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| SNP | John Ross (incumbent) | 26.3 | 1,921 | ||
| Labour | Gavin Wylie Keatt | 23.1 | 1,688 | ||
| Labour | Celine Handibode | 22.3 | 1,632 | ||
| SNP | Helen Toner | 15.1 | 1,105 | 1,525 | |
| Conservative | Lynne Nailon (incumbent) | 13.1 | 960 | 967 | |
| Electorate: 16,516 Valid: 7,306 Spoilt: 193 Quota: 1,462 Turnout: 45.4% | |||||
2017 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | John Ross (incumbent) | 30.6 | 2,167 | |||||||
| Labour | Joe Lowe (incumbent)[note 1] | 25.7 | 1,818 | |||||||
| Conservative | Lynne Nailon | 21.8 | 1,544 | |||||||
| Labour | Brian McCaig (incumbent) | 9.1 | 643 | 669 | 991 | 1,020 | 1,055 | 1,177 | ||
| SNP | Josh Wilson | 6.7 | 475 | 1,105 | 1,112 | 1,115 | 1,209 | 1,245 | 1,485 | |
| Scottish Green | John Kane | 3.0 | 216 | 249 | 257 | 265 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Joanne Ferguson | 3.0 | 210 | 228 | 244 | 282 | 345 | |||
| Electorate: 16,328 Valid: 7,073 Spoilt: 177 Quota: 1,415 Turnout: 44.4% | ||||||||||
2015 by-election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | John Ross | 48.0 | 1,881 | 1,883 | 1,888 | 1,905 | 1919 | 1,988 | |
| Labour | Jim Lee | 35.6 | 1,396 | 1,398 | 1,405 | 1,410 | 1,425 | 1,460 | |
| Conservative | Lynne Nailon | 8.9 | 349 | 349 | 354 | 365 | 389 | 394 | |
| Scottish Green | John Kane | 3.2 | 127 | 128 | 132 | 135 | 146 | ||
| Scottish Christian | Craig Smith | 2.0 | 77 | 80 | 81 | 84 | |||
| UKIP | Donald Murdo MacKay | 1.1 | 43 | 44 | 45 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Matthew Cockburn | 0.8 | 32 | 34 | |||||
| Pirate | Andrew McCallum | 0.3 | 13 | ||||||
| Electorate: 14,811 Valid: 3,918 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,960 Turnout: 26.8% | |||||||||
Source:[9]
2013 by-election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Labour | Stuart Gallacher | 51.7 | 1,781 | |
| SNP | Josh Wilson | 32.5 | 1,120 | |
| Conservative | Lynne Nailon | 9.4 | 322 | |
| Scottish Christian | Craig Martin | 3.9 | 133 | |
| UKIP | Josh Richardson | 2.5 | 86 | |
| Electorate: 14,478 Valid: 3,442 Spoilt: 43 Quota: 1,722 Turnout: 24.1% | ||||
Source:[10]
2012 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Joe Lowe (incumbent) | 36.6 | 1,975 | |||||||
| SNP | Angela Crawley[note 2] | 23.2 | 1,255 | |||||||
| Labour | Brian McCaig (incumbent) | 14.8 | 800 | 1,512 | ||||||
| SNP | Bobby Lawson (incumbent)[note 3] | 9.3 | 502 | 537 | 599 | 747 | 773 | 861 | 988 | |
| Conservative | John Murray (incumbent) | 9.2 | 496 | 516 | 542 | 545 | 584 | 654 | ||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | David Holland | 3.7 | 199 | 234 | 314 | 324 | 380 | |||
| Scottish Christian | Craig Smith | 3.1 | 165 | 176 | 198 | 200 | ||||
| Electorate: 14,383 Valid: 5,392 Spoilt: 134 Quota: 1,079 Turnout: 37.5% | ||||||||||
Source:[13]
2007 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Joe Lowe[note 4] | 34.9 | 2,626 | ||||||||
| SNP | Bobby Lawson | 23.8 | 1,791 | ||||||||
| Labour | Brian McCaig[note 5] | 13.4 | 1,005 | 1,685 | |||||||
| Conservative | John Murray | 10.7 | 808 | 837 | 872 | 883 | 906 | 942 | 1,121 | ??? | |
| Independent | John Carracher | 6.2 | 464 | 531 | 564 | 584 | 611 | 740 | 876 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Oswald | 5.7 | 427 | 459 | 509 | 532 | 633 | 664 | |||
| Independent | David Holland | 2.9 | 215 | 255 | 276 | 283 | 300 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Denize McBride | 2.5 | 188 | 219 | 265 | 276 | |||||
| Electorate: 15,037 Valid: 7,524 Quota: 1,505 Turnout: 51.0% | |||||||||||
Notes
- ^ Hamilton South Labour councillor and Joe Lowe resigned from the party and became an independent in May 2017.[6]
- ^ Hamilton South SNP councillor Angela Crawley was elected as MP for Lanark and Hamilton East on 7 May 2015. She resigned her council seat on 22 May 2015.[11] A by-election was held on 6 August 2015 and was won by the SNP's John Ross.
- ^ Hamilton South SNP councillor Bobby Lawson died on 13 August 2013. A by-election was held on 24 October 2013 and was won by Labour's Stuart Gallacher.[12]
- ^ Returning councillor for Low Waters single-member ward.
- ^ Returning councillor for Silvertonhill single-member ward.
References
- ^ "Hamilton South". Scottish Government. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; South Lanarkshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
- ^ "Ward 19 Hamilton South Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Ward 19 Hamilton South Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ Findlay, Nicola (25 May 2017). "Long-standing councillors quit SNP ahead of first meeting of new council". Daily Record.
- ^ "Ward 19 Hamilton South Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ "Ward 19 Hamilton South Candidate Votes Per Stage Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ "Hamilton South by-election - 6 August 2015". South Lanarkshire Council. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ "Hamilton South by-election - 24 October 2013". South Lanarkshire Council. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Pirie, Mark (23 May 2015). "Hamilton South councillor Angela Crawley to step down triggering by-election". Daily Record.
- ^ "Hamilton South By-election Thursday 24 October 2013". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ "Local Government election results 2012". South Lanarkshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Lanarkshire". Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ 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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