Mossend and Holytown (ward)

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.

Location of the ward ^[1]

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 of New Stevenston – streets north of the Shotts Line railway tracks). A 2017 boundary review reduced the territory in central Bellshill slightly, and caused a small decrease in the electorate. The ward had a population of 13,480 in 2019.^[3]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Paul Delaney (SNP)		James Coyle (Labour)		Kevin McKeown (Labour)
2012	David Baird (SNP/ Alba)	Frank McNally (Labour)
2017			Jim Reddin (Labour)
2021
2022				Beth Baudo (SNP/ Progressive Change NL/ Labour)
2023
2024		Helena Gray (Labour)

Beth Baudo defected from the SNP to Progressive Change North Lanarkshire in 2023. In January 2024, she again defected, this time to Scottish Labour.

Election results

2024 by-election

Mossend and Holytown (10 October 2024) – 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Helena Gray	36.5	616	616	640	668	722	926
	SNP	Shahnawaz Khan	34.8	586	586	593	600	633
	Reform UK	Duncan McMillan	15.5	263	268	276	321
	Conservative	Aimee Alexander	7.5	127	127	141
	Liberal Democrats	John Cole	5.0	83	84
	UKIP	Neil Wilson	0.6	11
Electorate: 10,813   Valid: 1,686   Spoilt: 27   Quota: 844   Turnout: 15.8%

Source:^[4][5]

2022 election

Main article: 2022 North Lanarkshire Council election

Mossend and Holytown – 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Frank McNally (incumbent)	29.8	1,132
	SNP	Beth Baudo	25.7	974
	SNP	Michael Clarkson	16.9	642	650	672	763	782
	Conservative	Sheila Cameron	12.8	486	496	497	512
	Labour	Jim Reddin (incumbent)	9.6	364	512	512	544	818	1,095
	Alba	John Marshall	5.2	198	199	200
Electorate: 10,343   Valid: 3,796   Spoilt: 152   Quota: 950   Turnout: 38.2%

Source:^[6][7]

2017 election

Main article: 2017 North Lanarkshire Council election

Mossend and Holytown - 3 seats^[8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Frank McNally (incumbent)	30.41	1,131
	SNP	David Baird (incumbent)	28.56	1,062
	Conservative	Carol Cunningham	17.19	641	649	651	701
	SNP	Michael Clarkson	12.26	456	465	586
	Labour	Jim Reddin	11.54	429	597	599	810	1,179
Electorate: 9,665   Valid: 3,719   Spoilt: 147   Quota: 930   Turnout: 3,866 (40.0%)

• On 10 July 2018, councillor David Baird was suspended from The SNP for 'breaking procedure'. He then sat as an Independent,^[9] before re-joining the party in 2018.

2012 election

Main article: 2012 North Lanarkshire Council election

Mossend and Holytown - 3 seats^[10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	James Coyle (incumbent)	37.9%	1,281
	Labour	Frank McNally	22.0%	745	1,061.5
	SNP	David Baird	17.1%	578	602.4	621.8	642.4	944.3
	SNP	Paul Delaney (incumbent)	10.2%	346	362.3	380.2	389.8
	Independent	Kevin McKeown (incumbent)	8.6%	291	310.4	358.7	417.1	449.9
	Conservative	Rosemary Pawson	4.2%	141	147.5
Electorate: 10,020   Valid: 3,382   Spoilt: 77   Quota: 846   Turnout: 3,459 (34.52%)

2007 election

Main article: 2007 North Lanarkshire Council election

North Lanarkshire council election, 2007: Mossend & Holytown

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	James Coyle	1,680	37.3	1	1
	SNP	Paul Delaney	1,365	30.3	1	1
	Labour	Kevin McKeown	886	19.7	1	2
	Conservative	Elizabeth McLeod	386	8.6
	Independent	Jim Reddin	191	4.2