Rutherglen Central and North (ward)

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rdf:langString Rutherglen Central and North is one of the twenty wards used to elect members of the South Lanarkshire Council. Created in 2007, it elects three councillors under the Single Transferable Vote system. The ward's territory is centred around the densely populated Burgh of Rutherglen, also encompassing its surrounding suburban neighbourhoods such as Bankhead, Burnhill, Gallowflat and Farme Cross, and the unpopulated Shawfield industrial area. The northern border is the River Clyde, and the western border the long-established division with the City of Glasgow. A 2017 national boundary review added some streets in the south of the ward (around Overtoun Park, Dryburgh Avenue and Limeside Avenue). The population in 2018 was 14,489. The ward was formed from roughly the boundaries of three wards under the previous single-member system used by the local authority from the creation of South Lanarkshire in 1995 until 2007: Bankhead, Burgh and Rutherglen West. Prior to this, the town was within the Glasgow District under Strathclyde Regional Council - one of its single-member wards from 1984 was Rutherglen, which included much of the same area as the current Rutherglen Central and North, excepting the Burnhill and Newfield neighbourhoods which were in the Toryglen ward, but with the addition of parts of Burnside north of the Cathcart Circle Line railway tracks (i.e. the Stonelaw ward in the 1995 to 2007 system).