Rutherglen South (ward)

Rutherglen South is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council.[2] Established in 2007, it elects three councillors.

Location of the ward in South Lanarkshire[1]

The largest neighbourhood within the suburban ward is Burnside, also including the Blairbeth, Cathkin, Fernhill, High Burnside, Springhall and Spittal neighbourhoods in the southern part of Rutherglen.[3] The western border is the long-established division with the City of Glasgow. A 2017 national boundary review removed some streets to the north of the ward (around Overtoun Park, Dryburgh Avenue and Limeside Avenue), but added several of the streets in its east (those off East Kilbride Road, Brownside Road and Dukes Road). The population in 2018 was 15,340.[4]

The ward was formed from roughly the boundaries of four wards under the previous single-member system used by the local authority from the creation of South Lanarkshire in 1995 until 2007: Cathkin/Springhall, Fernhill, Spittal/Blairbeth and Stonelaw.[5] Prior to this, Rutherglen was within the Glasgow District under Strathclyde Regional Council – one of its single-member wards from 1984 was Fernhill, which included much of the same area as the current Rutherglen South, with the exception of the parts of Burnside north of the Cathcart Circle Line railway tracks (i.e. the 1995 to 2007 Stonelaw ward) which was in the Glasgow Rutherglen ward.