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Since the 2007 South Lanarkshire Council election, there are 20 council wards in South Lanarkshire, [40] each serving a population ranging from 13,000 to 20,000 [41] and each ward represented on the council by 3 or 4 councillors elected using single transferable vote; in 2007 and 2012 this produced a total of 67 available seats, which was ...
South Lanarkshire was created in 1996, when the regions and districts created in 1975 were replaced with single-tier council areas. South Lanarkshire covered the whole area of three of the abolished Strathclyde districts, being Clydesdale, East Kilbride and Hamilton, plus an area including Rutherglen and Cambuslang from the City of Glasgow ...
The council was based at the Civic Centre at the corner of Andrew Street and Cornwall Street in East Kilbride, which had been built in 1968 for the former East Kilbride Town Council. [5] [6] The successor South Lanarkshire Council continues to use the building as offices, but has its headquarters at the Lanark County Buildings in Hamilton. [7]
East Kilbride (Gaelic: Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of South Lanarkshire.It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election.
East Kilbride Central North is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward initially elected four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 16,547 people. Following a boundary review, the ward has elected three councillors since 2017.
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 South was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards.
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 Central South was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards.
Elections to South Lanarkshire Council took place on 4 May 2017 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV) – a form of proportional representation – in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.