The placeConstituency · Scotland · Electorate 70,199 · 2023 boundaries

Airdrie and Shotts.

Labour Party MP Kenneth Stevenson holds the seat on 51.5% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentKenneth Stevenson · Labour Party
CouncilNorth Lanarkshire
Boundary set2023
ONS codeS14000063
Electorate · 2024
70.2k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
51.5%
Labour Party · +20.6pp over SNP
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
1 Jun 2026

Stevenson's most notable parliamentary moment came in June 2025, when he broke with Labour five times during the Report Stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. All five rebel votes concerned the bill's eligibility criteria -- specifically, whether patients who voluntarily stop eating and drinking could qualify as terminally ill and access an assisted death. Stevenson consistently supported tighter restrictions on that loophole, voting against his party's majority on each occasion. His 67% alignment with end-of-life autonomy positions sits 22 percentage points above the Labour average, suggesting a considered rather than casual engagement with the issue.

Beyond that, Stevenson is a 97.5% party-line voter with a 71% participation rate -- below the Commons average -- who reflects orthodox Labour priorities. His voting profile shows strong alignment with workers' rights (90%) and progressive taxation (97%), near-zero alignment with pro-business positions (7%), and consistent support for government positions against Lords amendments. He speaks most on economy and jobs, local government, and immigration, and recent news coverage has been positive, largely tied to welcoming an AI Growth Zone investment for North Lanarkshire.

His seat on the Procedure Committee signals an interest in how Parliament itself functions, though no notable committee interventions are on record here. His deviations from Labour colleagues are worth noting: he scores 29 percentage points below the party average on armed forces welfare votes and 26 points below on pension protection -- areas where his record may attract scrutiny. Speech data runs to January 2026 and voting data to April 2026; there is no information on casework or local campaigning beyond press coverage.

51.5%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
5
Wards · 20 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.5 wards · 20 councillors

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Airdrie North(4 seats)Beveridge · Dunbar · Sullivan · Coyle4,403North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Airdrie South(4 seats)Coyle · McBride · Mascio · Watson5,276North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Fortissat(4 seats)Leckie · Stevenson · Hughes · McCulloch3,472North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Motherwell North(4 seats)Duffy-Lawson · Thomas · Khan · Brennan4,366North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Murdostoun(4 seats)McManus · Roarty · Shevlin · McKendrick4,282North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ

Ethnicity.

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.9% Female 51.1% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£28,000
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£33,000
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,215
VAT/PAYE-registered

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£199m
Taxpayers43,000
Median per taxpayer£2,880
Mean per taxpayer£4,610

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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§ 06Election history.6 contests · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Kenneth StevensonWONLab18,87151.5
Anum QaisarSNP11,32430.9
David HallRef2,9718.1
Alexandra HerdmanCon1,6964.6
Lewis YounieLD7252.0
Josh RobertsonInd6231.7
John LeckieInd4561.2

Turnout 36,666

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2021Anum Qaisar-JavedSNP46.4
2019Neil GraySNP45.1
2017Neil GraySNP37.6
2015Neil GraySNP53.9
2010Nash, PamelaLab58.2
Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission