South Lanarkshire Council election, 2012

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All 67 seats to South Lanarkshire Council
34 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Edward McAvoy	Anne Maggs	Hamish Stewart
Party	Labour	SNP	Conservative
Leader's seat	Rutherglen Central and North	East Kilbride Central North	Clydesdale East
Last election	30 seats, 44.8%	24 seats, 35.8%	8 seats, 11.9%
Seats before	32	24	8
Seats won	33	28	3
Seat change	3	4	5

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Graeme Campbell	Robert Brown
Party	Independent	Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat	Avondale and Stonehouse	Rutherglen South
Last election	3 seats, 4.5%	2 seats, 3.0%
Seats before	3	2
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	1	1

Results by ward.

Council Leader before election

Edward McAvoy
Labour

Council Leader after election

Edward McAvoy
Labour

Elections to South 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 67 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 3 seat from 2007 to be just 1 seat short of an overall majority. The Scottish National Party also increased their representation and remained in second place on the authority with 4 net gains. The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party were the biggest losers falling from 8 seats to just 3. Independents lost a seat to return to the Council with 2 seats. The Scottish Liberal Democrats lost 1 seat to be reduced to a solitary member. Following the election the Labour Party again formed an administration.

In February 2013 Labour gained overall control of South Lanarkshire Council after winning Rutherglen South by-election from the SNP.

Note: "Votes" are the sum of first preference votes across all council wards. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This is because STV has an element of proportionality which is not present unless multiple seats are being elected. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Between 2007 and 2012 the following changes took place:

http://www.andrewteale.me.uk/pdf/2012/s-lanarks12.pdf

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