Wishaw is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council.
[2] It elects four councillors and covers the town centre of Wishaw plus the neighbourhoods to its south and east including Gowkthrapple, Netherton, Overtown, Pather and Waterloo, with a population of 17,974 in 2019;[3] created in 2007, its territory remained almost unchanged in a 2017 national review, other than the loss of a few streets by moving a section of the boundary south from the Temple Gill burn to the edge of Belhaven Park.
[4] 2017 North Lanarkshire Council election[5] 2012 North Lanarkshire Council election[6] SNP councillor Marion Fellows was elected as an MP for Motherwell and Wishaw on 7 May 2015.
[9] She resigned her Council seat on 25 May 2015 and a by-election was held 13 August 2015 – the seat was held by the party's Rosa Zambonini.
2007 North Lanarkshire Council election