Mossend and Holytown (ward)
Location of the ward [1]
Mossend and Holytown is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] Created in 2007, it elects three councillors.
As its name suggests, its territory comprises the localities of Mossend (as well as parts of Bellshill including the town centre east of Motherwell Road, and the Thorndean and Milnwood neighbourhoods) and neighbouring Holytown (plus part of New Stevenston – streets north of the Shotts Line railway tracks). A 2017 boundary review reduced the territory in central Bellshill slightly, and caused a small decrease in the electorate. The ward had a population of 13,480 in 2019.[3]
Councillors
[edit]| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Paul Delaney (SNP) |
James Coyle (Labour) |
Kevin McKeown (Labour) | |||||
| 2012 | David Baird (SNP/ Alba) |
Frank McNally (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Jim Reddin (Labour) | |||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Beth Baudo (SNP/ Progressive Change NL/ Labour) | |||||||
| 2023 | ||||||||
| 2024 | ||||||||
Beth Baudo defected from the SNP to Progressive Change North Lanarkshire in 2023. In January 2024, she again defected, this time to Scottish Labour.
Election results
[edit]2024 by-election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Helena Gray | 36.5 | 616 | 616 | 640 | 668 | 722 | 926 | |
| SNP | Shahnawaz Khan | 34.8 | 586 | 586 | 593 | 600 | 633 | ||
| Reform UK | Duncan McMillan | 15.5 | 263 | 268 | 276 | 321 | |||
| Conservative | Aimee Alexander | 7.5 | 127 | 127 | 141 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | John Cole | 5.0 | 83 | 84 | |||||
| UKIP | Neil Wilson | 0.6 | 11 | ||||||
| Electorate: 10,813 Valid: 1,686 Spoilt: 27 Quota: 844 Turnout: 15.8% | |||||||||
2022 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Frank McNally (incumbent) | 29.8 | 1,132 | ||||||
| SNP | Beth Baudo | 25.7 | 974 | ||||||
| SNP | Michael Clarkson | 16.9 | 642 | 650 | 672 | 763 | 782 | ||
| Conservative | Sheila Cameron | 12.8 | 486 | 496 | 497 | 512 | |||
| Labour | Jim Reddin (incumbent) | 9.6 | 364 | 512 | 512 | 544 | 818 | 1,095 | |
| Alba | John Marshall | 5.2 | 198 | 199 | 200 | ||||
| Electorate: 10,343 Valid: 3,796 Spoilt: 152 Quota: 950 Turnout: 38.2% | |||||||||
2017 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Frank McNally (incumbent) | 30.41 | 1,131 | |||||
| SNP | David Baird (incumbent) | 28.56 | 1,062 | |||||
| Conservative | Carol Cunningham | 17.19 | 641 | 649 | 651 | 701 | ||
| SNP | Michael Clarkson | 12.26 | 456 | 465 | 586 | |||
| Labour | Jim Reddin | 11.54 | 429 | 597 | 599 | 810 | 1,179 | |
| Electorate: 9,665 Valid: 3,719 Spoilt: 147 Quota: 930 Turnout: 3,866 (40.0%) | ||||||||
- On 10 July 2018, councillor David Baird was suspended from The SNP for 'breaking procedure'. He then sat as an Independent,[9] before re-joining the party in 2018.
2012 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | James Coyle (incumbent) | 37.9% | 1,281 | |||||
| Labour | Frank McNally | 22.0% | 745 | 1,061.5 | ||||
| SNP | David Baird | 17.1% | 578 | 602.4 | 621.8 | 642.4 | 944.3 | |
| SNP | Paul Delaney (incumbent) | 10.2% | 346 | 362.3 | 380.2 | 389.8 | ||
| Independent | Kevin McKeown (incumbent) | 8.6% | 291 | 310.4 | 358.7 | 417.1 | 449.9 | |
| Conservative | Rosemary Pawson | 4.2% | 141 | 147.5 | ||||
| Electorate: 10,020 Valid: 3,382 Spoilt: 77 Quota: 846 Turnout: 3,459 (34.52%) | ||||||||
2007 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | James Coyle | 1,680 | 37.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | Paul Delaney | 1,365 | 30.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Kevin McKeown | 886 | 19.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Conservative | Elizabeth McLeod | 386 | 8.6 | |||
| Independent | Jim Reddin | 191 | 4.2 | |||
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: Mossend and Holytown Archived 16 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ "Declaration of Results Report Ward 16 Mossend and Holytown" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Council. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
- ^ "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 16 Mossend and Holytown" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Council. 11 October 2024. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
- ^ "Declaration of Results Report Ward 16 Mossend and Holytown" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 16 Mossend and Holytown" (PDF). North Lanarkshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - Scottish council elections". Archived from the original on 22 October 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Councillor suspended by SNP Group at NLC". www.motherwelltimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "North Lanarkshire Council - 3 May 2012 - North Lanarkshire Council - results". Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2020.