Clydesdale East (ward) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Clydesdale East
South Lanarkshire
Boundary of Clydesdale East in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population	13,165 (2021)
Electorate	10,578 (2022)
Major settlements	Biggar
Scottish Parliament constituency	Clydesdale
Scottish Parliament region	South Scotland
UK Parliament constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Current ward
Created	2007 (2007)
Number of councillors	3
Councillor	Ian McAllan (SNP)
Councillor	Alex Allison (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party)
Councillor	Ralph Baker (Labour)
Created from	Biggar/Symington and Black Mount Carstairs/Carnwath Duneaton/Carmicheal

Clydesdale East 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 13,165 people

The ward has been a Conservative stronghold with the party winning two of the three seats in 2007 and 2017.

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 Clydesdale East was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Carstairs/Carnwath ward as well as all of the former Biggar/Symington and Black Mount and Duneaton/Carmicheal wards. Clydesdale East covers a large, rural and sparsely populated area in the southern- and eastern-most parts of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders, West Lothian and East Ayrshire. The largest settlement in the ward is Biggar and it includes the villages of Abington, Carnwath, Carstairs, Carstairs Junction, Cleghorn, Crawford, Leadhills, Symington and Thankerton. Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.

Councillors

Election results

2022 election

2022 South Lanarkshire Council election

2017 election

2017 South Lanarkshire Council election

2012 election

2012 South Lanarkshire Council election

2007 election

2007 South Lanarkshire Council election