Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.[2] It elects four councillors and covers much of the town of Motherwell (roughly all the territory east of the Argyle Line railway up to the station including the town centre, Airbles, Muirhouse and the developing suburb of Ravenscraig), as well as Craigneuk and Wishawhill in Wishaw, with a population of 18,497 in 2019;[3] created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 national review.