# East Kilbride West (ward)

East Kilbride West is one of the 20 electoral wards of South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 13,737 people.
The ward has politically been split between the Scottish National Party (SNP), Labour and the Conservatives. Each party had held one of the three seats from the ward's creation until Cllr David Watson resigned from the SNP to become an independent in 2018. The 2022 election saw the SNP regain their seat from the Conservatives.

## Boundaries

The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so East Kilbride West was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the former Stewartfield ward, part of the previous Hairmyres/Crosshouse and Lindsay wards as well as all of the former Mossneuk/Kittoch ward and a small area from each of the former East Mains and West Mains wards. East Kilbride West covers an area in the west of South Lanarkshire next to its boundaries with Glasgow City Council and East Renfrewshire Council. Its territory covers the parts of East Kilbride on the north-west and western peripheries of the town, including the neighbourhoods of Gardenhall, Hairmyres, Mossneuk, Nerston (the brownfield residential developments, but not the older separate hamlet), Newlandsmuir, Philipshill and Stewartfield, plus the College Milton industrial area and the outlying village of Thorntonhall. Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.

## Councillors

| Year | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors | Councillors |
| 2007 | | Graham Simpson (Conservative) | | Michael McCann (Labour) | David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) |
| 2010 by-election | Alan Scott (Labour) | Graham Simpson (Conservative) | | | David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) |
| 2012 | Janice McGinlay (Labour) | Graham Simpson (Conservative) | | | David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) |
| 2017 | Ian Harrow (Conservative) | Monique McAdams (Labour) | | | David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) |
| 2018 | Ian Harrow (Conservative) | Monique McAdams (Labour) | | | David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) |
| 2022 | | Monique McAdams (Labour) | Ali Salamati (SNP) | | David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) |
| 2023 by-election | | Monique McAdams (Labour) | Kirsty Williams (Labour) | | David Watson (SNP/ Ind.) |

## Election results
### 2023 by-election

East Kilbride West by-election (6 July 2023) - 1 seat :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Labour | Kirsty Williams | 40.5 | 1,386 | 1,392 | 1,434 | 1,469 | 1,500 | 1,845 |
| | Conservative | Bill Dorrian | 26.4 | 904 | 914 | 919 | 933 | 937 | 965 |
| | SNP | Robert Gillies | 22.7 | 778 | 778 | 785 | 806 | 899 | |
| | Scottish Green | Cameron Eadie | 3.8 | 131 | 131 | 139 | 155 | | |
| | Independent | Kristofer Keane | 2.9 | 99 | 112 | 123 | | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Jake Stevenson | 2.4 | 83 | 85 | | | | |
| | Scottish Family | Jonathan Jack Richardson | 1.2 | 42 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 13,412 Valid: 3,450 Spoilt: 27 Quota: 1,712 Turnout: 25.7% ||||||||||
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### 2022 election

East Kilbride West - 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| | Labour | Monique McAdams (incumbent) | 26.5 | 1,780 | | | | | | | |
| | Conservative | Ian Harrow (incumbent) | 20.0 | 1,339 | 1,358 | 1,360 | 1,395 | 1,426 | 1,441 | 1,448 | |
| | Independent | David Watson (incumbent) | 18.6 | 1,248 | 1,269 | 1,270 | 1,309 | 1,365 | 1,458 | 1,555 | 2,220 |
| | SNP | Craig Sloan | 15.5 | 1,041 | 1,048 | 1,049 | 1,053 | 1,068 | | | |
| | SNP | Ali Salamati | 15.4 | 1,031 | 1,039 | 1,040 | 1,051 | 1,072 | 1,962 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Huaiquan Zhang | 2.1 | 142 | 158 | 158 | 166 | | | | |
| | Scottish Family | Denise Hay | 1.6 | 110 | 112 | 121 | | | | | |
| | UKIP | Yvonne MacKay | 0.3 | 18 | 18 | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 13,319 Valid: 6,709 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,678 Turnout: 50.9% ||||||||||||
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### 2017 election

East Kilbride West - 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Conservative | Ian Harrow | 37.3 | 2,363 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Monique McAdams | 20.7 | 1,315 | 1,529 | 1,571 | 1,612 | | | |
| | SNP | David Watson (incumbent) | 20.5 | 1,298 | 1,319 | 1,322 | 1,370 | 1,373 | 1,427 | 2,389 |
| | SNP | Ali Salamati | 14.2 | 900 | 914 | 917 | 986 | 988 | 1,065 | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Ewan McRobert | 3.5 | 223 | 374 | 397 | 447 | 458 | | |
| | Scottish Green | Billy McLean | 3.1 | 194 | 216 | 229 | | | | |
| | UKIP | David Mackay | 0.8 | 49 | 140 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 12,151 Valid: 6,342 Spoilt: 74 Quota: 1,586 Turnout: 52.8% |||||||||||
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### 2012 election

East Kilbride West - 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Conservative | Graham Simpson (incumbent) | 25.3 | 1,197 | | | | | |
| | SNP | David Watson (incumbent) | 24.2 | 1,148 | 1,150 | 1,188 | | | |
| | Labour | Janice McGinlay | 17.0 | 805 | 806 | 849 | 849 | 975 | 1,741 |
| | Labour | Alan Scott (incumbent) | 16.9 | 800 | 801 | 823 | 823 | 916 | |
| | SNP | John Reilly | 12.2 | 579 | 580 | 605 | 607 | | |
| | East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 4.5 | 211 | 213 | | | | |
| Electorate: 12,092 Valid: 4,740 Spoilt: 44 Quota: 1,186 Turnout: 39.2% ||||||||||
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### 2010 by-election

East Kilbride West by-election (28 October 2010) - 1 seat :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Labour | Alan Scott | 41.4 | 847 | 863 | 873 | 892 | 973 | 1,297 |
| | SNP | Pat McGuire | 27.9 | 571 | 587 | 606 | 641 | 761 | |
| | Conservative | Ian Harrow | 19.7 | 403 | 427 | 442 | 455 | | |
| | Scottish Green | Raymond Burke | 4.0 | 82 | 85 | 100 | | | |
| | East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 3.5 | 71 | 76 | | | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Gordon Smith | 3.4 | 70 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 12,024 Valid: 2,044 Quota: 1,023 Turnout: 17.0% ||||||||||
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### 2007 election

East Kilbride West - 3 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | SNP | David Watson | 30.2 | 1,861 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Michael McCann | 29.4 | 1,805 | | | | | | |
| | Conservative | Graham Simpson | 14.0 | 860 | 906 | 919 | 941 | 1,019 | 1,197 | ??? |
| | Labour | Margaret McCulloch | 11.2 | 688 | 730 | 914 | 956 | 1,000 | 1,195 | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Pauline Aaron | 7.1 | 437 | 501 | 519 | 615 | 725 | | |
| | East Kilbride Alliance | Brian Jones | 4.2 | 259 | 289 | 295 | 348 | | | |
| | Scottish Green | Kitty MacKenzie | 3.8 | 232 | 283 | 292 | | | | |
| Electorate: 10,938 Valid: 6,142 Quota: 1,536 Turnout: 56.7% |||||||||||
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