Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke (UK Parliament constituency)

Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament.^[2] Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election, when it was won by Pamela Nash of Scottish Labour.

Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
County constituency for the House of Commons
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Boundary of Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke in Scotland
Subdivisions of Scotland	North Lanarkshire South Lanarkshire
Electorate	72,318 (March 2020)[1]
Major settlements	Motherwell, Wishaw, Carluke
Current constituency
Created	2024
Member of Parliament	Pamela Nash (Labour)
Created from	Motherwell and Wishaw

Boundaries

The constituency comprises the following:^[3][4]

• In full: the North Lanarkshire Council wards of Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig, Motherwell West, Wishaw.
• In part: the North Lanarkshire Council wards of Motherwell North (southern parts including Carfin), Murdostoun (southern and western areas including Cambusnethan and Coltness); and the South Lanarkshire Council wards of Clydesdale North (minority, comprising northern areas, including the village of Forth), Clydesdale West (nearly all, including the town of Carluke).

The bulk of the constituency, comprising the areas in North Lanarkshire comes from the former Motherwell and Wishaw constituency; the areas in South Lanarkshire were previously part of the abolished Lanark and Hamilton East constituency.^[5][6]

Constituency profile

Electoral Calculus characterises the seat as "Traditionalist", with left-wing economic views but more liberal social attitudes. Incomes and house prices in the seat are well below UK averages.^[7]

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke ^{[8] [9]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Pamela Nash	19,168	49.1	+21.6
	SNP	Marion Fellows	12,083	31.0	−14.9
	Reform UK	Robert McLaughlan	3,004	7.7	N/A
	Conservative	Oyebola Ajala	2,415	6.2	−15.0
	Scottish Green	Gordon Miller	1,200	3.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Hayley Bennie	822	2.1	−1.9
	BUP	Gus Ferguson	158	0.4	N/A
	UKIP	Neil Wilson	110	0.3	−1.1
	Scottish Libertarian	Ross Hagen	66	0.2	N/A
Majority			7,085	18.1
Turnout			39,026	54.4	−7.7
Registered electors			71,777
	Labour gain from SNP		Swing	+18.2

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result [a] [10]
Party		Vote	%
	Scottish National Party	20,638	45.9
	Labour	12,344	27.5
	Conservative	9,537	21.2
	Liberal Democrats	1,781	4.0
	UK Independence Party	619	1.4
Majority		8,294	18.5
Turnout		44,919	62.1
Electorate		72,318

Notes

1. Estimate of the 2019 general election result as if the revised boundaries recommended under the 2023 boundary review were in place