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All five are within the Central Scotland electoral region. The electoral wards used in the creation of Motherwell and Wishaw are listed below. All of these wards are part of North Lanarkshire. [3] In full: Motherwell West; Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig; Murdostoun; Wishaw; In part: Motherwell North (shared with Uddingston and Bellshill)
The City of Glasgow is divided into a number of wards. [3] These electoral districts, as they are also known, are used to elect councillors to Glasgow City Council.The council, composed of the elected members from each ward, provides local government services to the City of Glasgow.
All wards in Scotland are multi-member wards, meaning there are multiple councillors per area. Under this system, voters must number their candidates by preference. First-preference votes are counted and the candidates with the least get eliminated, so the first-preference votes for the candidates get ignored and their second preferences get ...
Ballot paper used for the elections in the Victoria Park ward of the Glasgow City Council. Councillors are elected to represent multi-member wards using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) method, which has been used for all elections to local authorities in Scotland since the 2007 election. Previous to this election, in all votes since 2007 ...
The Scottish Parliament (), created by the Scotland Act 1998, has used a system of constituencies and electoral regions since the first general election in 1999.. The parliament has 73 constituencies, each electing one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first-past-the-post) system of voting, and eight additional member regions, each electing seven additional MSPs.
Following their First Periodic review into constituencies to the Scottish Parliament, the Boundary Commission for Scotland had recommended a modified Glasgow Shettleston constituency. The electoral wards used to create the newly formed Shettleston are: In full: Calton, Shettleston; In part: Baillieston (shared with Glasgow Provan)
Shettleston (Ward 19) is one of the 23 wards of Glasgow City Council. [2] Since its creation in 2007 it has returned four council members, using the single transferable vote system; the boundaries have not changed since it was formed.
Further to reviews of local government ward boundaries which came into effect in 2007 and 2017, but did not affect the parliamentary boundaries, the constituency comprised the City of Glasgow Council wards or part wards of: Calton (minority), East Centre (majority), Shettleston, Baillieston and North East (majority).