Motherwell West (ward)

Motherwell West is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. It elects four Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Annette Valentine (SNP)		Michael Ross (Labour)		Paul Kelly (Labour)
2012
2017			Meghan Gallacher (Conservative)

Election Results

2017 Election

2017 North Lanarkshire Council election [1]

Motherwell West - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Conservative	Meghan Gallacher	21.99	1,002	1,019	1,047	1,097	1,163
	SNP	Annette Valentine (incumbent)	21.15	964	970	1,009	1,047	1,080	1,081	1,854
	Labour	Paul Kelly (incumbent)	20.12	917	923	958	1,453
	SNP	Jamie Super	16.74	763	773	808	834	867	869
	Labour	Michael Ross (incumbent)	14	638	652	673
	RISE	Julie Fleming	4.08	186	207
	Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire	Elaine McSpadden	1.91	87
Electorate: 10,585   Valid: 4,557   Spoilt: 111   Quota: 1,140   Turnout: 4,668 (44.1%)

2012 Election

2012 North Lanarkshire Council election [2]

Motherwell West - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	SNP	Annette Valentine (incumbent)	32.1%	1,256
	Labour	Paul Kelly (incumbent)	29.5%	1,156
	Labour	Michael Ross (incumbent)	22.3%	874	949.4	1,098.9
	Conservative	Robert Burgess	13.7%	535	579.4	583.7
	TUSC	Kenny Martin	2.4%	95	152.1	156.4
Electorate: 10,511   Valid: 3,916   Spoilt: 74   Quota: 980   Turnout: 3,990 (37.96%)

2007 Election

2007 North Lanarkshire Council election

North Lanarkshire council election, 2007: Motherwell West
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Annette Valentine	1,573	30.9	1	3
	Labour	Michael Ross	1,270	24.9	1	2
	Labour	Paul Kelly	1,237	24.3	1	3
	Conservative	Robert Burgess	812	15.9
	Independent	Gordon Weir	205	4.0

References

1. https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=32951
2. https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=24109&contactid=12585