Avondale and Stonehouse
South Lanarkshire
Boundary of Avondale and Stonehouse in South Lanarkshire from 2007–2017.
Population	17,749 (2021)[1]
Electorate	14,882 (2022)
Major settlements	Strathaven Stonehouse
Scottish Parliament constituency	Clydesdale Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse
Scottish Parliament region	South Scotland
UK Parliament constituency	East Kilbride and Strathaven
Current ward
Created	2007 (2007)
Number of councillors	3
Councillor	Margaret Cooper (Independent)
Councillor	Elise Frame (SNP)
Councillor	Susan Kerr (Labour)
Created from	Avondale North Avondale South Larkhall South Lindsay

Avondale and Stonehouse is one of the 20electoral wards ofSouth Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward initially elected four councillors using thesingle transferable vote electoral system before a boundary review in 2017 reduced the number of councillors to three. It covers an area with a population of 17,749 people.

The ward has produced strong results for bothLabour and theScottish National Party (SNP). Prior to the boundary review, the SNP held half the seats in the ward and both parties have returned at least one member at every election.

The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of theLocal Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use thesingle transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Avondale and Stonehouse was formed from an amalgamation of several previousfirst-past-the-post wards. It contained the majority of the formerLindsay ward and part of the formerLarkhall South ward as well as all of the formerAvondale North andAvondale South wards. Avondale and Stonehouse is located in the west of South Lanarkshire and covers a rural hinterland next to its boundaries withEast Ayrshire andEast Renfrewshire. The ward centres around the towns ofStrathaven andStonehouse as well the villages ofChapelton andGlassford.^[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were altered to remove a corridor of farmland between theWhite Cart Water and southernEast Kilbride. The review resulted in a reduction in the number of seats from four to three in order to balance with other wards with similar populations.^[3]

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