The placeConstituency · Scotland · Electorate 71,777 · 2023 boundaries

Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke.

Labour Party MP Pamela Nash holds the seat on 49.1% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentPamela Nash · Labour Party
CouncilNorth Lanarkshire
Boundary set2023
ONS codeS14000099
Electorate · 2024
71.8k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
49.1%
Labour Party · +18.2pp over SNP
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
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.

49.1%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
3
Wards · 8 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.3 wards · 8 councillors

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

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Motherwell South East Ravenscraig Kaye Harmon0North Lanarkshire LabNov 2023
Motherwell West(3 seats)Crichton · Nolan · Kelly3,235North Lanarkshire LabMay 2022
Wishaw(4 seats)Burgess · Fotheringham · McKay · Hume4,524North 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 48.8% Female 51.3% 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
£32,500
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,245
VAT/PAYE-registered

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£207m
Taxpayers48,000
Median per taxpayer£2,800
Mean per taxpayer£4,310

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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§ 06Election history.1 contest · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Pamela NashWONLab19,16849.1
Marion FellowsSNP12,08331.0
Robert McLaughlanRef3,0047.7
Oyebola AjalaCon2,4156.2
Gordon MillerInd1,2003.1
Hayley BennieLD8222.1
Gus FergusonInd1580.4
Neil WilsonInd1100.3
Ross HagenInd660.2

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
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