South Lanarkshire

  • Council Control: Min Lab
  • Conservatives 5
  • Labour 25
  • Liberal Democrats 3
  • Green 1
  • SNP 25
  • Other 5

Independent Group 2, Reform UK 2, Independent 1. Begins at Rutherglen, south-eastern suburb of Glasgow; includes new town of East Kilbride, Hamilton, and several market towns in the Lanark Hills. New Lanark mill is where Robert Owen pioneered business on cooperative principles.

Poppy Corbett (Clydesdale West) and Ross Lambie (Clydesdale South) moved from Conservative to Reform UK in March 2025.

Next local elections
2027

Election cycle
Full

Local authority type
Scotland

Address
Almada Street, Hamilton ML3 0AA

Phone
01698 454444

Website
http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/

Council Tax (Band D)
£1300.81