Rutherglen Central and North (ward)


Rutherglen Central and North is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, it elects three Councillors.
The ward's territory is centred around the densely populated Burgh of Rutherglen, also encompassing its surrounding suburban neighbourhoods such as Bankhead, Burnhill, Gallowflat and Farme Cross, and the unpopulated Shawfield industrial area. The population in 2018 was 14,489.
The ward was formed from roughly the boundaries of three wards under the previous single-member system used by the local authority from the creation of South Lanarkshire in 1995 until 2007: Bankhead, Burgh and Rutherglen West. Prior to this, the town was within the Glasgow District under Strathclyde Regional Council - one of its wards from 1984 was Rutherglen, which included much of the same area as the current Rutherglen Central and North, excepting the Burnhill and Newfield neighbourhoods which were in the Toryglen ward, but with the addition of parts of Burnside north of the Cathcart Circle Line railway tracks.

Councillors

Election Results

2017 By-election

2017 Election

2012 Election

2007 Election