Kilsyth is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.
[2] It elects three councillors and covers the town of Kilsyth (plus neighbouring Croy) with a population of 13,772 in 2019.
[3] Created in 2007, its boundaries remained unchanged in a 2017 review.
On Friday 2 December 2022, Ex Cllr Mark John Kerr, was jailed for 6 years and place on the sex offenders register for life, after being found guilty of multiple charges including attempted rape.
Mark Griffin held the seat for the party in the resulting by-election on 31 January 2008.