Cumbernauld North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] It elects four Councillors and covers the northern parts of Cumbernauld lying north-west of the M80 motorway (Balloch/Eastfield, Blackwood, Carrickstone, Craigmarloch, Smithstone, Westerwood and Westfield) plus the separate older villages of Castlecary and Dullatur. Created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 review. In 2019, the population was 17,927.[3]
Location of the ward [1]
Councillors edit
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Alan O'Brien (SNP/ Ind.) |
Bob Chadha (Labour) |
Barry McCulloch (Labour) |
Gordon Murray (Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | Alan Masterson (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Danish Ashraf (SNP) |
Tom Fisher (Labour) |
Calum Currie (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
Election Results edit
2017 Election edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| SNP | Alan Masterton (incumbent) | 25.54 | 1,833 | ||||||||||
| Conservative | Calum Currie | 16.53 | 1,186 | 1,189 | 1,192 | 1,205 | 1,216 | 1,217 | 1,300 | 1,334 | 1,362 | 1,716 | |
| SNP | Danish Ashraf | 14.03 | 1,007 | 1,331 | 1,336 | 1,338 | 1,444 | ||||||
| Labour | Tom Fisher | 11.93 | 856 | 864 | 865 | 870 | 899 | 900 | 968 | 1,585 | |||
| Labour | Barry McCulloch (incumbent) | 10.05 | 721 | 730 | 735 | 740 | 759 | 759 | 808 | ||||
| Independent | Alan O'Brien (incumbent) | 9.91 | 711 | 722 | 723 | 733 | 769 | 770 | 1,009 | 1,051 | 1,075 | ||
| Independent | Fraser Morrison | 7.09 | 509 | 517 | 518 | 521 | 573 | 574 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Kevin Hamilton | 3.91 | 281 | 297 | 303 | 305 | |||||||
| UKIP | Carl Pearson | 0.63 | 45 | 45 | 45 | ||||||||
| Scottish Socialist | John Miller | 0.37 | 27 | 28 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 14,497 Valid: 7,176 Spoilt: 145 Quota: 1,436 Turnout: 7,321 (50.5%) | |||||||||||||
2012 Election edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Cumbernauld Independent Councillors Alliance | Alan O'Brien (incumbent) | 24.3% | 1,309 | |||||||
| Labour | Barry McCulloch (incumbent) | 18% | 971 | 995.9 | 1,005.9 | 1,039.5 | 1,054.1 | 1,060.9 | 1,154.6 | |
| Labour | Bob Chadha (incumbent) | 17.9% | 962 | 985.4 | 996.2 | 1,028.4 | 1,036.5 | 1,045.7 | 1,143.2 | |
| SNP | Alan Masterton | 17.5% | 943 | 969.2 | 979.9 | 999 | 1,250.7 | |||
| SNP | Andrew Roberts | 10.9% | 588 | 616.4 | 620.4 | 634.4 | 708.1 | 853.9 | ||
| SNP | Kevin McMail | 6.4% | 344 | 356.4 | 362.3 | 365.8 | ||||
| Conservative | Arthur Pawson | 4% | 216 | 240.1 | 244.2 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | John Miller | 1% | 50 | 63.6 | ||||||
| Electorate: 13,446 Valid: 5,383 Spoilt: 87 Quota: 1,077 Turnout: 5,470 (40.68%) | ||||||||||
2007 Election edit
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Alan O'Brien | 1,645 | 23.1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Bob Chadha | 1,576 | 22.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Barry McCulloch | 1,362 | 19.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| Independent | Gordon Murray | 727 | 10.4 | 1 | 9 | |
| SNP | Norman R Robinson | 641 | 9.2 | |||
| Conservative | Christina Giggie | 375 | 5.4 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Pamela Wilson | 321 | 4.6 | |||
| Independent | Donald Masterton | 247 | 3.5 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Davina McNeill | 101 | 1.4 | |||
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: Cumbernauld North, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ "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.