Motherwell (Scottish Gaelic: Tobar na Màthar, Scots: Mitherwall or Murwall) was a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996, lying to the south-east of the regional capital Glasgow.

[1] The district was created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government across mainland Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts.

As well as Motherwell itself, the district also included the settlements of Bellshill, Chapelhall, Holytown, Newarthill, Newmains and Viewpark, with a rural hinterland centred around the small town of Shotts extending east to the regional border with West Lothian.

(Scotland) Act 1994 which replaced regions and districts with unitary council areas.

North Lanarkshire council area was formed covering the abolished districts of Motherwell, Monklands, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, and the Chryston area of Strathkelvin district.