Who will win YOUR vote on May 6?

And this week, the Carluke and Lanark Gazette features all the politicians who are canvassing for our readers votes.

The Gazette covers the area known locally as Clydesdale but government boundary changes have resulted in our readers voting in THREE Parliamentary seats.

Most of our readers are in the Lanark and Hamilton East seat.

But rural voters in the south of the area are in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweedale — a seat which is larger than some European countries!

And a smaller number, in the Blackwood area, now find themselves in the East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow seat.

The Lanark seat has been staunchly Labour for half a century, Jim Hood winning with a majority of 11,947 in 2005.

That year, David Mundell became the only Conservative MP in Scotland when he won the Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale seat with a majority of over 1700 votes.

The seat was new, half of it coming from the former Dumfries area, part from Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, 15 per cent from rural Clydesdale, including Biggar, Douglas and Duneaton, and the rest from Galloway and Upper Nithsdale.

The East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow seat started life in 1974 as the East Kilbride seat, held by Labour and by Adam Ingram since 1987.

By 2005 boundary changes had added in Strathaven and Lesmahagow, but the seat remained Adam Ingram's, with a majority of 14,723.

* Each of the 18 candidates fighting for election in our three seats was given a chance to share their views with readers this week.

To find out more, pick up a copy of this week's Carluke and Lanark Gazette which is in the shops now, priced just 48p.