2022 North Lanarkshire Council election

2022 North Lanarkshire Council election

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All 77 seats to North Lanarkshire Council
39 seats needed for a majority
Registered264,519
Turnout41.3%
  First party Second party Third party
 
SNP
Lab
Con
Leader Jordan Linden Jim Logue Sandy Watson
Party SNP Labour Conservative
Leader's seat Bellshill Airdrie Central Airdrie South
Last election 33 seats, 38.4% 32 seats, 32.9% 10 seats, 15.8%
Seats before 26 31 8
Seats won 36 32 5
Seat change Increase 3 Steady Decrease 5
Popular vote 46,255 37,336 12,571
Percentage 43.6% 35.2% 11.8%
Swing Increase 5.2% Increase 2.3% Decrease 4.0%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Ind
Grn
BUP
Leader Claire Louise Williams John Jo Leckie
Party Independent Scottish Green BUP
Leader's seat Stepps, Chryston and Muirhead Fortissat
Last election 2 seats, 7.4% 0 seats, 1.3% 0 seats, 0.5%
Seats before 9 0 0
Seats won 2 1 1
Seat change Steady Increase 1 Increase 1
Popular vote 4,282 2,304 859
Percentage 4.0% 2.2% 0.5%
Swing Decrease 3.4% Increase 0.9% Increase 0.3%

Leader before election

Jim Logue
(Labour)
No overall control

Leader after election

Jordan Linden
(SNP)
No overall control

Elections to North Lanarkshire Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV) – a form of proportional representation – in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.

For the second consecutive election, the Scottish National Party (SNP) were returned as the largest party with 36 seats – three shy of an overall majority. Despite a slight increase in vote share, Labour made a net gain of zero seats to remain as the second-largest party on 32 seats. The Conservatives lost half of their seats while both the Greens and the British Unionist Party (BUP) won their first seats in a North Lanarkshire election. The remaining two seats were won by independents.

For the first time in the council's history, Labour lost control as their ruling minority administration supported by the Conservatives was replaced by an SNP minority administration. However, following allegations of sexual harassment against council leader Jordan Linden, Labour regained control of the council three months later.