Avondale and Stonehouse (ward)
Avondale and Stonehouse is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council.[2] Created in 2007, it elects three councillors. Its territory covers the small towns of Strathaven and Stonehouse, the villages of Chapelton and Glassford and a rural hinterland to the west up to the local authority borders with East Ayrshire and East Renfrewshire – a 2017 national boundary review removed a corridor of farmland between the White Cart Water and southern East Kilbride where housebuilding was planned (although the nearby Benthall Farm development was not re-assigned at that time, still falling just within Avondale and Stonehouse despite being an extension of the Lindsayfield suburb). This review also caused the loss of one seat from the original four despite the electorate increasing slightly, to balance with other wards with similar populations but only three seats. The population in 2019 was 17,089.[3]
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | William Holman (SNP) |
James Malloy (Labour) |
Graeme Campbell (Conservative /Ind./ Conservative) |
Lynn Filshie (Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | Margaret Cooper (Labour /Ind.) |
Isobel Dorman (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017[4] | 3 seats | |||||||
| 2022 | Susan Kerr (Labour) |
Elise Frame (SNP) | ||||||
Election Results
2022 Election
2022 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Margaret Cooper (incumbent) | 23.7 | 1,629 | 1,639 | 1,740 | |||||
| SNP | Elise Frame | 21.1 | 1,454 | 1,471 | 1,632 | 1,635 | 2,122 | |||
| Conservative | Gary Burns | 20.6 | 1,416 | 1,420 | 1,440 | 1,445 | 1,452 | 1,462 | ||
| Labour | Susan Kerr | 19.8 | 1,363 | 1,367 | 1,439 | 1,444 | 1,480 | 1,619 | 2,290 | |
| SNP | Leigh Payne | 7.2 | 495 | 515 | 566 | 567 | ||||
| Green | Erica Bradley-Young | 6.3 | 437 | 444 | ||||||
| Alba | Colin MacLaren | 1.0 | 75 | |||||||
| Electorate: 14,882 Valid: 6,869 Spoilt: 93 Quota: 1,718 Turnout: 46.8% | ||||||||||
2017 Election
2017 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Graeme Campbell (incumbent) | 31.5 | 2,062 | ||||||||
| Labour | Margaret Cooper (incumbent)[B] | 23.53 | 1,540 | 1,656 | |||||||
| SNP | Isobel Dorman (incumbent) | 17.12 | 1,121 | 1,131 | 1,134 | 1,137 | 1,147 | 1,187 | 1,309 | 2,279 | |
| SNP | Mairi Tulbure | 13.4 | 877 | 882 | 883 | 884 | 893 | 967 | 1,111 | ||
| Independent | Alister Hendry | 8.86 | 580 | 665 | 669 | 695 | 739 | 801 | |||
| Green | Erica Young | 2.95 | 193 | 203 | 204 | 211 | 273 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Daniel O'Malley | 1.86 | 122 | 170 | 173 | 181 | |||||
| UKIP | Laura Murray | 0.78 | 51 | 82 | 83 | ||||||
| Electorate: 13,114 Valid: 6,546 Spoilt: 90 Quota: 1,637 Turnout: 50.6% | |||||||||||
- Labour Party councillor Margaret Cooper resigned from the party and became Independents in May 2017.[7]
2012 Election
2012 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
| SNP | Isobel Dorman | 21.40 | 1,148 | |||||||||||
| SNP | William Holman (incumbent) | 16.14 | 866 | 922.7 | 931.8 | 949.8 | 992.8 | 1,061.3 | 1,162.6 | |||||
| Labour | Margaret Cooper | 12.49 | 670 | 673.1 | 674.1 | 685.2 | 698.3 | 732.3 | 759.3 | 764 | 1,158.8 | |||
| Conservative | Allan Finnie | 11.63 | 624 | 625.4 | 634.5 | 641.6 | 649.6 | 666.6 | 718.7 | 724.5 | 734.7 | 739.4 | ||
| Independent | Graeme Campbell (incumbent) | 9.36 | 502 | 503.2 | 505.2 | 516.4 | 525.4 | 580.6 | 808 | 823.5 | 853 | 861.9 | 1,100.3 | |
| Labour | John Hamilton | 9.21 | 494 | 494.9 | 494.9 | 498.2 | 521.2 | 564.2 | 588.3 | 596.6 | ||||
| Independent | Lynn Filshie (incumbent) | 7.62 | 409 | 411.6 | 417.6 | 428.7 | 459.7 | 554.8 | ||||||
| Independent | Jim Malloy (incumbent) | 6.32 | 339 | 340.4 | 340.4 | 357.4 | 380.5 | |||||||
| Green | Erica Young | 3.37 | 181 | 183 | 185.1 | 189.2 | ||||||||
| Independent | Kenny Weir | 1.75 | 94 | 96.4 | 99.4 | |||||||||
| UKIP | Melvyn Donald Randall | 0.69 | 37 | 37.4 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 12,848 Valid: 5,364 Spoilt: 97 Quota: 1,073 Turnout: 5,461 (41.75%) | ||||||||||||||
2007 Election
2007 South Lanarkshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | William Holman | 1,989 | 27.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Conservative | Graeme Campbell | 1,384 | 19.2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Labour | James Malloy[a] | 1,071 | 14.9 | 3 | 8 | |
| Independent | Lynn Filshie | 797 | 11.1 | 4 | 8 | |
| Labour | Ian McInnes | 788 | 10.9 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Nigel Benzies | 414 | 5.7 | |||
| Green | John Innes | 333 | 4.6 | |||
| Independent | Stuart Brown | 238 | 3.3 | |||
| Independent | Frank Reilly | 198 | 2.7 | |||
- ^ Returning councillor for Avondale North single-member ward.
References
- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ Electoral Ward: Avondale and Stonehouse, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ a b Local Government Election results 2017, South Lanarkshire Council
- ^ "Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse Declaration of Results Elections". South Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Ward 5 Avondale and Stonehouse 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". dailyrecord.