Johnstone South and Elderslie (ward)

Johnstone South and Elderslie is one of the twelve electoral wards in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It elects four of its forty-three Councillors using the Single Transferable Vote electoral system.[1]

As reflected in its name, the ward contains the southern half of the town of Johnstone including the neighbourhoods of Cochrane Castle, Corseford, Johnstone Castle, Quarrelton, Spateston and Thorn (the division being the Inverclyde Line railway tracks) and the adjacent village of Elderslie.[2][3] The village of Howwood was included when the ward was created in 2007,[4] but a boundary review prior to the 2017 Renfrewshire Council election removed Howwood and the rural hinterland up to the local authority boundaries with East Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire to the Johnstone North, Kilbarchan and Lochwinnoch ward, both entities being re-named accordingly. Johnstone South gained some territory from the Paisley Northwest ward, namely streets west of the course of the former Paisley and Barrhead District Railway tracks at Barskiven Road, though most of the developed land comprises the non-residential Phoenix Retail Park and St James Business Park. In 2020, the ward's population was 15,860.[5]