North Lanarkshire Council election, 2012

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All 70 seats to North Lanarkshire Council
36 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jim McCabe	David Stocks	Robert McKendrick
Party	Labour	SNP	Independent
Leader's seat	Thorniewood	Airdrie Central	Murdostoun
Last election	40 seats, 57.1%	23 seats, 32.9%	5 seats, 7.1%
Seats before	43	22	5
Seats won	41	26	2
Seat change	1	3	3

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Alan O'Brien	Linsey McKay	John Love
Party	CICA	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat	Cumbernauld North	Motherwell South East & Ravenscraig	Airdrie South
Last election	0 seats, 0%	1 seats, 1.4%	1 seat, 1.4%
Seats before	1	1	1
Seats won	1	0	0
Seat change	1	1	1

Council Leader before election

Jim McCabe
Labour

Council Leader after election

Jim McCabe
Labour

Elections to North Lanarkshire Council were held on 3 May 2012 on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the twenty wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 70 Councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

The election saw Labour retain their traditional position as the largest party on the Council as they gained 1 seat from 2007 and retained their overall majority. The Scottish National Party also increased their representation and remained in second place on the authority with 3 net gains. Both the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and the Scottish Liberal Democrats were wiped out losing their single Council seats. Independents saw their seat numbers fall from 5 to 2 while former SNP Councillor, Alan O'Brien, was elected for the Cumbernauld Independent Councillors Alliance.

Following the election the Labour Party again formed an administration.

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

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