Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke.
Labour Party MP Pamela Nash holds the seat on 49.1% of the vote.
1 Jun 2026
Pamela Nash has been one of the more active local advocates among Scotland's 2024 intake. Her most visible recent work secured a commitment from the Business Secretary that Motherwell's Dalzell Steelworks is "front and centre" of the government's steel strategy -- a direct win for a major local employer. She has also publicly championed the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap, citing figures showing nearly 2,000 children lifted from poverty in her constituency. Her one rebel vote came in June 2025, when she voted against her party on a Crime and Policing Bill clause covering measures including the criminalisation of organising begging for profit and new offences around concealment of items -- a rare departure from near-total party loyalty.
Nash votes with Labour 99.8% of the time and participated in 79% of divisions, just below the Commons average. Her speeches cluster around economy and jobs, cost of living, and energy -- topics that map closely onto Lanarkshire's industrial base. Her stance profile shows strong alignment with progressive taxation and workers' rights, and she is notably more favourable to armed forces welfare than the average Labour MP (+26 percentage points). She sits 31 points below the Labour average on anti-sexual-exploitation votes, though the vote count is small enough to treat that figure with caution.
Local news coverage over the past 90 days has been consistently positive, with health the most prominent issue -- including her campaign against the downgrade of Wishaw's neonatal unit. She holds no select committee seats, so her influence runs primarily through speeches and local advocacy. No voting data predating July 2024 exists, as this is her first term.
Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.
| Ward | Latest winner | Votes | Council | Last cycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motherwell South East Ravenscraig | Kaye Harmon | 0 | North Lanarkshire Lab | Nov 2023 |
| Motherwell West(3 seats) | Crichton · Nolan · Kelly | 3,235 | North Lanarkshire Lab | May 2022 |
| Wishaw(4 seats) | Burgess · Fotheringham · McKay · Hume | 4,524 | North Lanarkshire Lab | May 2022 |
Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Headline indicators.
| Indicator | Local | National | Δ |
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Ethnicity.
Source · Census 2021
Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band
Income tax contribution.
| Total income tax | £207m |
| Taxpayers | 48,000 |
| Median per taxpayer | £2,800 |
| Mean per taxpayer | £4,310 |
Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence
Where the money flows back in.
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2024 — full result.
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pamela NashWON | Lab | 19,168 | 49.1 |
| Marion Fellows | SNP | 12,083 | 31.0 |
| Robert McLaughlan | Ref | 3,004 | 7.7 |
| Oyebola Ajala | Con | 2,415 | 6.2 |
| Gordon Miller | Ind | 1,200 | 3.1 |
| Hayley Bennie | LD | 822 | 2.1 |
| Gus Ferguson | Ind | 158 | 0.4 |
| Neil Wilson | Ind | 110 | 0.3 |
| Ross Hagen | Ind | 66 | 0.2 |
Turnout 39,026
Prior contests.
Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.
Sources, methods & last update
2023 boundary review
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
±8% confidence
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo