Bellshill (ward)
Bellshill is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] Created in 2007, it originally returned three councillors, covering part of Bellshill (including the Orbiston, Hattonrigg, Shirrell and West End neighbourhoods but not Milnwood, Thorndean, the town centre east of Hamilton Road / North Road, nor Mossend), with the northern boundary at the A8 and the western boundary at the A725 bypass; much of Strathclyde Country Park (nominally in Motherwell) was also assigned to this ward.
A 2017 national review caused the territory to be altered, with a minor change within central Bellshill moving the eastern boundary to Motherwell Road, and a shift of the western boundary further towards Viewpark to encompass the Fallside neighbourhood (although the majority of built-upon land in this area is the unpopulated Righead Industrial Estate). These changes caused an increase in population, with one additional seat allocated. In 2019, the ward had a population of 14,969.[3]
Councillors[edit]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Richard Lyle (SNP) |
Harry Curran (Labour) |
Harry McGuigan (Labour) |
3 seats | ||||
| 2012 | Marina Lyle (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Jordan Linden (SNP) |
Angela Campbell (Labour) |
Colin Cameron (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022 | Pat Patton (Labour) |
Lisa Stubbs (SNP) | ||||||
| 2023 (by-election) | Anne McCorry (Labour) | |||||||
Election results[edit]
2023 by-election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Labour | Anne McCrory | 51.8 | 1,440 | |
| SNP | Joseph Budd | 27.1 | 753 | |
| Conservative | Colin Cameron | 8.5 | 236 | |
| British Unionist Party | Billy Ross | 4.3 | 120 | |
| Alba | John Marshall | 3.9 | 107 | |
| Scottish Green | Rosemary McGowan | 1.6 | 44 | |
| Liberal Democrats | John Arthur Henry Cole | 1.2 | 34 | |
| Scottish Family | Leo Francis Lanahan | 1.1 | 30 | |
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | Simona Panaitescu | 0.3 | 7 | |
| UKIP | Neil Wilson | 0.3 | 7 | |
| Electorate: 12,410 Valid: 2,778 Spoilt: 41 Quota: 1,390 Turnout: 2,819 (22.7%) | ||||
2022 election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Jordan James Linden (incumbent) | 28.1 | 1,300 | |||||
| Labour | Angela Campbell (incumbent) | 25.1 | 1,162 | |||||
| Labour | Pat Patton | 13.7 | 635 | 657 | 829 | 845 | 935 | |
| SNP | Lisa Stubbs | 12.7 | 589 | 888 | 893 | 919 | 978 | |
| Conservative | Colin Cameron (incumbent) | 13.6 | 632 | 635 | 653 | 663 | 689 | |
| Independent | John Devlin | 4.5 | 209 | 220 | 232 | 264 | ||
| Alba | David Baird (incumbent in Mossend and Holytown) | 2.2 | 104 | 109 | 110 | |||
| Electorate: 12,279 Valid: 4,631 Spoilt: 153 Quota: 927 Turnout: 4,784 (39.0%) | ||||||||
2017 election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Harry Curran (incumbent) | 25.15 | 1,237 | ||||||
| SNP | Jordan Linden | 21.53 | 1,059 | ||||||
| Conservative | Colin Cameron | 17.69 | 870 | 877 | 877 | 915 | 971 | 1,016 | |
| SNP | Marina Lyle (incumbent) | 15.09 | 742 | 756 | 823 | 826 | 881 | ||
| Labour | Angela Campbell | 12.36 | 608 | 798 | 800 | 821 | 927 | 1,172 | |
| Independent | John Devlin | 6.36 | 313 | 327 | 329 | 343 | |||
| UKIP | William Brown | 1.81 | 89 | 91 | 92 | ||||
| Electorate: 12,229 Valid: 4,918 Spoilt: 145 Quota: 984 Turnout: 5,063 (41.4%) | |||||||||
2012 election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Harry Curran (incumbent) | 31.3% | 1,208 | |||||
| Labour | Harry McGuigan (incumbent) | 23.8% | 919 | 1,110.5 | ||||
| SNP | Marina Lyle | 17.2% | 666 | 673.6 | 690.3 | 708.8 | 1,106.1 | |
| Independent | John Devlin | 12.2% | 471 | 483.4 | 508.2 | 567.6 | 588.9 | |
| SNP | Owen Gallagher | 11.3% | 437 | 444.6 | 453.6 | 473.5 | ||
| Conservative | Robert Hargrave | 4.2% | 164 | 166.6 | 174.5 | |||
| Electorate: 10,888 Valid: 3,865 Spoilt: 94 Quota: 967 Turnout: 3,959 (36.36%) | ||||||||
2007 election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Richard Lyle | 1,523 | 30.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Harry Curran | 1,297 | 25.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Harry McGuigan | 1,128 | 22.4 | 1 | 6 | |
| SNP | Helen Gallett | 447 | 8.9 | |||
| Conservative | George Clark | 366 | 7.3 | |||
| Independent | William Devlin | 147 | 2.9 | |||
| Solidarity | Ray Gunnion | 138 | 2.7 | |||
References[edit]
- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ Electoral Ward: Bellshill Archived 3 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ "Bellshill, Ward 15 by-election". North Lanarkshire Council. North Lanarkshire Council. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - Scottish council elections". Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - 3 May 2012 - North Lanarkshire Council - results". Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2020.