Murdostoun is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors and covers the settlements of Cleland, Dalziel Park and Newmains plus the Coltness and Cambusnethan areas of Wishaw, with a combined population of 20,485 in 2019; [3] created in 2007, its territory remained almost unchanged in a 2017 national review, other than the addition of a few streets by moving a section of the boundary south from the Temple Gill burn to the edge of Belhaven Park.
Election | Councillors | |||||||
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2007 | John Taggart ( SNP) |
Jimmy Martin ( Labour) |
Nicky Shevlin ( Labour) |
Robert McKendrick (Ind.) | ||||
2012 | Alan Clinch ( Labour) | |||||||
2017 | Cameron McManus ( SNP) |
Louise Roarty ( Labour) | ||||||
2022 |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Independent | Robert John McKendrick ( incumbent) | 27.2 | 1,545 | |||||||
SNP | Cameron McManus ( incumbent) | 19.4 | 1,106 | 1,167 | ||||||
Labour | Louise Roarty ( incumbent) | 15.0 | 853 | 914 | 916 | 986 | 1,191 | |||
Labour | Nicky Shevlin ( incumbent) | 13.7 | 778 | 834 | 836 | 892 | 1,007 | 1,049 | 1,317 | |
SNP | Julia Stachurska | 10.3 | 584 | 606 | 629 | 691 | 705 | 708 | ||
Conservative | Linsey McKay | 9.1 | 518 | 545 | 545 | 624 | ||||
Independent | Robert Livingston Arthur | 5.4 | 305 | 394 | 394 | |||||
Electorate: 14,403 Valid: 5,689 Spoilt: 136 Quota: 1,138 Turnout: 5,825 (40.4%) |
2017 North Lanarkshire Council election [6]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Independent | Robert McKendrick ( incumbent) | 27.55 | 1,765 | ||||||||
SNP | Cameron McManus | 18.89 | 1,210 | 1,267 | 1,270 | 1,295 | |||||
Conservative | Cindy MacKenzie | 12.88 | 825 | 851 | 880 | 914 | 915 | 983 | 1,006 | ||
Labour | Nicky Shevlin ( incumbent) | 12.21 | 782 | 825 | 829 | 841 | 841 | 931 | 1,008 | 1,145 | |
Labour | Louise Roarty | 11.52 | 738 | 804 | 810 | 827 | 828 | 859 | 1,014 | 1,235 | |
SNP | Anum Qaisar | 8.76 | 561 | 602 | 604 | 614 | 624 | 684 | |||
Independent | John Taggart ( incumbent) | 4.43 | 284 | 366 | 370 | 452 | 452 | ||||
Independent | Robert Arthur | 2.4 | 154 | 231 | 241 | ||||||
UKIP | Yvonne Millar | 1.04 | 67 | 77 | |||||||
Electorate: 13,928 Valid: 6,406 Spoilt: 162 Quota: 1,282 Turnout: 6,568 (46%) |
2012 North Lanarkshire Council election [7]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Independent | Robert McKendrick ( incumbent) | 32.1% | 1,751 | ||||||
Labour | Nicky Shevlin ( incumbent) | 21.6% | 1,178 | ||||||
Labour | Alan Clinch | 14.5% | 789 | 982.1 | 1,045.4 | 1,111.3 | |||
SNP | John Taggart ( incumbent) | 13.4% | 729 | 860.7 | 867.5 | 925.7 | 927.8 | 1,566.7 | |
SNP | Lyall Duff | 12.7% | 691 | 739.9 | 743.1 | 779.7 | 782.9 | ||
Conservative | Cindy MacKenzie | 5.9% | 321 | 369.5 | 371.4 | ||||
Electorate: 14,401 Valid: 5,459 Spoilt: 110 Quota: 1,092 Turnout: 5,569 (38.67%) |
2007 North Lanarkshire Council election
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Labour | Jimmy Martin | 1,449 | 20.0 | 1 | 1 | |
SNP | John Taggart | 1,322 | 18.2 | 1 | 4 | |
Independent | Robert McKendrick | 1,085 | 15.0 | 1 | 7 | |
Labour | Nicky Shelvin | 804 | 11.1 | 1 | 7 | |
Independent | John Lawrie | 756 | 10.4 | |||
Labour | David Moon | 654 | 9.0 | |||
Conservative | Mark Nolan | 614 | 8.5 | |||
Scottish Christian | Tom Selfridge | 348 | 4.8 | |||
Solidarity | William Kelly | 212 | 2.9 |