Elgin City South (ward)
Location of the ward[1]
Elgin City South is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Moray Council. It elects three Councillors.
Councillors
[edit]| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Graham Leadbitter (SNP) |
Alistair Bisset (Ind.) |
John Divers (Labour) | |||||
| 2008 by | John Alexander Sharp (SNP) | |||||||
| 2012 | James Allan (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2017 | Ray McLean (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | Peter Bloomfield (Conservative) | |||||||
Election Results
[edit]2022 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Graham Leadbitter (incumbent) | 35.5 | 1,444 | |
| Labour | John Divers (incumbent) | 28.1 | 1,142 | |
| Conservative | Peter Bloomfield | 26.8 | 1,090 | |
| Independent | Michaela French | 4.0 | 161 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Bernard Salmon | 3.1 | 124 | |
| Independent | Paul Briggs | 2.5 | 101 | |
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,062 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 1,016 Turnout: 40.5% | ||||
2017 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Conservative | Ray McLean | 35.9 | 1,460 | ||
| SNP | Graham Leadbitter (incumbent) | 30.7 | 1,245 | ||
| Labour | John Divers (incumbent) | 24.8 | 1,009 | 1,126 | |
| Independent | Sean Malone | 8.5 | 347 | 531 | |
| Electorate: 9,551 Valid: 4,061 Spoilt: 42 Quota: 1,016 Turnout: 43.0% | |||||
2012 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Labour | John Divers (incumbent) | 37.6 | 1,073 | ||
| Conservative | James Allan | 25.0 | 714 | 810 | |
| SNP | Graham Leadbitter (incumbent) | 23.6 | 675 | 771 | |
| SNP | John Sharp (incumbent) | 13.8 | 394 | 434 | |
| Electorate: 8,356 Valid: 2,856 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 715 Turnout: 34.2% | |||||
2008 by-election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | John Alexander Sharp | 32.1 | 670 | 670 | 672 | 672 | 679 | 685 | 706 | 763 | 884 | |
| Independent | Hamish Simpson | 24.3 | 513 | 513 | 518 | 523 | 527 | 540 | 612 | 722 | 845 | |
| Labour | Mark Cascarino | 17.0 | 358 | 358 | 361 | 363 | 370 | 380 | 403 | 459 | ||
| Independent | James Scott Allan | 10.6 | 223 | 224 | 227 | 229 | 233 | 240 | 278 | |||
| Conservative | Frank Brown | 9.8 | 206 | 206 | 206 | 208 | 216 | 223 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter J Horton | 2.3 | 48 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 53 | |||||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Andy Anderson | 1.5 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 37 | ||||||
| UKIP | Matthew Coughlan Desmond | 1.0 | 20 | 20 | 20 | |||||||
| Independent | Martyn Harris | 0.8 | 16 | 16 | ||||||||
| Independent | Gordon Davidson | 0.1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 7,886 Valid: 2,087 Spoilt: 25 Quota: 1,044 Turnout: 2,112 | ||||||||||||
2007 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| SNP | Graham Leadbitter | 33.2 | 1,304 | ||
| Labour | John Divers | 28.8 | 1,132 | ||
| Independent | Alistair Bisset | 23.0 | 904 | 1,019 | |
| Conservative | Dennis Thompson | 15.1 | 592 | 656 | |
| Valid: 3,932 Spoilt: 50 Quota: 984 Turnout: 50.7% | |||||
Source:[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps". Scottish Boundary Commission. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ "Declaration of Results - Ward 7 - Elgin City South" (PDF). Moray Council. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Transfers Report - Ward 7 - Elgin City South" (PDF). Moray Council. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Local Government Election Results - 3rd May 2007 - Elgin City South" (PDF). Moray Council. Retrieved 28 July 2024.