South Lanarkshire Council election, 2017

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May 4, 2017 (2017-05-04)

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All 64 seats to South Lanarkshire Council
33 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	John Ross	Gerry Convery
Party	SNP	Labour
Leader's seat	Hamilton South	East Kilbride Central South
Last election	28 seats, 36.3%	33 seats, 43.1%
Seats before	26 (notional)	32 (notional)
Seats after	27	22
Seat change	1	11

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Alex Alison	Robert Brown
Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat	Clydesdale East	Rutherglen South
Last election	3 seats, 4.5%	1 seat, 1.5%
Seats before	4 (notional)	1 (notional)
Seats after	14	1
Seat change	11

Results by ward.

Council Leader before election

Edward McAvoy
Labour

Council Leader after election

John Ross
SNP

Edward McAvoy
Labour

John Ross
SNP

The overall turnout was 46.9% and there were 2,308 rejected ballots.

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.

Elections to South Lanarkshire Council were held on 4 May 2017 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 64 Councillors being elected, a reduction of 3 members from 2012. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

Following the 2017 election the Scottish National Party attempted to form a coalition with Labour and the Liberal Democrats which was unsuccessful. The SNP then formed a minority administration.

On 23 June 2017 Rutherglen Central and North Labour Cllr Gerard Killen resigned his seat having been elected as an MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West. A by-election was held on 23 November 2017, won by Martin Lennon of the Scottish Labour Party.

East Kilbride Central North and East Kilbride East SNP Cllrs Sheena and Jim Wardhaugh resigned from the party and became Independents on 25 May 2017.

Avondale and Stonehouse and Hamilton South Labour Party Cllrs Margaret Cooper and Joe Lowe resigned from the party and became Independents in May 2017. Larkhall Labour Cllr Jackie Burns was expelled from the party and is now an Independent following a conviction for breach of the peace.

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