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The council has been under no overall control since 2017. Since August 2022 the council has been led by a Labour minority administration. [4]The first election to North Lanarkshire Council was held in 1995, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new system came into force on 1 April 1996.
The growth of the Greater Glasgow metropolitan area into the south-western part of North Lanarkshire has also led to a large number of residential areas for commuters. [5] The North Lanarkshire council area was established in 1996 as part of a reorganisation of local government in the United Kingdom. [10]
The district was abolished in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 which replaced regions and districts with unitary council areas. North Lanarkshire council area was formed covering the abolished districts of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Monklands, Motherwell, and the Chryston area of Strathkelvin district. [5]
Stepps, Chryston and Muirhead is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It currently elects three councillors and, as its name suggests, covers the settlements of Stepps, Chryston and Muirhead (as well as Auchinloch) with a combined population of 12,290 in 2019.
Murdostoun is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors and covers the settlements of Cleland, Dalziel Park and Newmains plus the Coltness and Cambusnethan areas of Wishaw, with a combined population of 20,485 in 2019; [3] created in 2007, its territory remained almost unchanged in a 2017 national review, other than the ...
Mossend and Holytown is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] Created in 2007, it elects three councillors. As its name suggests, its territory comprises the localities of Mossend (as well as parts of Bellshill including the town centre east of Motherwell Road, and the Thorndean and Milnwood neighbourhoods) and neighbouring Holytown (plus part ...
Coatbridge North is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors. Covering neighbourhoods in the north of Coatbridge (Blairhill, Cliftonville, Drumpellier, Dunbeth, Gartsherrie, Greenhill, Parklands, Summerlee, Sunnyside, Townhead and the town centre), the ward had a population of 15,146 in 2019.
Cumbernauld South is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] Created in 2007, it elects four Councillors and covers the south-western parts of Cumbernauld (Carbrain, Condorrat, Greenfaulds and Ravenswood).