North Ayrshire Council election, 2007

Elections to North Ayrshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using eight new wards created as a results of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 30 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

Election results

North Ayrshire Local Election Result 2007
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	12	N/A	N/A	-8	40.0%	32.42	17,666
	SNP	8	N/A	N/A	+5	26.67%	29.51	16,081
	Independent	5	N/A	N/A	+3	16.67%	16.87	9,193
	Conservative	3	N/A	N/A	-2	10.0%	13.45	7,330
	Liberal Democrats	2	N/A	N/A	+2	6.67%	4.71	2,564
	Solidarity	0	N/A	N/A	0	0	2.07	1,127
	Socialist Labour	0	N/A	N/A	0	0	0.49	265
	Scottish Socialist	0	N/A	N/A	0	0	0.48	261

Ward results

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: Irvine West
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Matt Brown	2,247	31.6	1	1
	Labour	Ian Clarkson	1,710	24.0	2	1
	Conservative	Pat McPhee	799	11.2	4	7
	Labour	David O'Neill	776	10.9	3	7
	Solidarity	Jim Byrne	517	7.3
	Labour	John McKay	508	7.1
	Liberal Democrats	Iain Rubie Dale	453	6.4
	Socialist Labour	Bobby Cochrane	103	1.5

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: Irvine East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Joan Sturgeon	2,293	32.4	1	1
	Labour	Tom Barr	1,302	18.4	2	4
	Labour	Jane Gorman	851	12.0
	Labour	John Moffat	850	12.0	3	7
	Conservative	Jane Belding	759	10.7
	Liberal Democrats	Ruby Kirkwood	543	7.7	4	7
	Solidarity	Danny McGregor	355	5.0
	Scottish Socialist	Denise Morton	117	1.7

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: Kilwinning
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	John Ferguson	1,749	27.0	1	1
	Labour	Margaret McDougall	1,033	16.0	2	4
	Labour	Ryan Oldfather	872	13.5	4	7
	Conservative	Gail Niven Allison	869	13.4
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Scott Chamberlain	713	11.0	3	7
	Labour	Donald J Reid	513	7.9
	Independent	Leanne Dorans	468	7.2
	Solidarity	Sandy Clarke	255	3.9

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: Saltcoats and Stevenston
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	William Gibson	1,629	22.4	1	1
	Independent	Ronnie McNicol	1,362	18.8	2	3
	Labour	David Munn	943	13.0	3	7
	Labour	Alan Munro	902	12.4	4	7
	SNP	Nan Wallace	691	9.5
	Labour	Sam Taylor	683	9.4
	Conservative	Stewart Ferguson	554	7.6
	Independent	Margaret Walsh	496	6.8

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: Ardrossan and Arran
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Margie Currie	1,439	19.3	2	4
	SNP	Tony Gurney	1,414	19.0	1	4
	Labour	Peter McNamara	1,007	13.5	3	7
	Independent	John Hunter	952	12.8	4	9
	Conservative	Gordon Allison	857	11.5
	Labour	Margaret Munn	829	11.1
	SNP	William McLaren	573	7.7
	Independent	Kenneth MacDougall	228	3.1
	Scottish Socialist	Nigel Hunter	144	1.9

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: Dalry and West Kilbride
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Elizabeth McLardy	1,637	29.0	1	1
	Labour	John Reid	1,176	20.7	2	6
	SNP	Catherine McMillan	1,084	19.1
	Conservative	Robert Barr†	962	17.0	3	6
	Conservative	Ian Richardson	242	4.3
	Independent	David Park	213	3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Clark	174	3.1
	Socialist Labour	Louise McDaid	162	2.9

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: Kilbirnie and Beith
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Craig Taylor	1,329	23.4	1	5
	Labour	John Bell	1,313	23.1	2	7
	Independent	Jean Highgate	947	16.7	3	7
	Labour	Donald Reid	849	15.0
	Conservative	John Smith	562	9.9
	Independent	John Johnstone	265	4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jenny Hutton	188	3.3
	Independent	William Fyfe	116	2.0
	Independent	Iain Walker	106	1.9

North Ayrshire council election, 2007: North Coast and Cumbraes
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Alan Hill	2,357	30.2	1	1
	Labour	Alex Gallagher	1,549	19.8	2	2
	Conservative	Elisabethe Marshall	1,007	12.9	3	7
	Conservative	Tom Marshall	719	9.2
	SNP	Bobby Rae	715	9.2	4	7
	Independent	Ian Murdoch	587	7.5
	Liberal Democrats	Lewis Hutton	493	6.3
	Independent	Gerard Langan	377	4.8

Changes Since June 2007

†Robert Barr quit the Conservative Party on 24 June 2010 and now sits as an Independent

By-Elections since 3 May 2007

A by-election arose in the Kilbirnie and Beith Ward following the death of the Scottish National Party's Craig Taylor and Anthea Dickson held the seat for the SNP on 14 October 2008.

Kilbirnie and Beith by-election, 14 October 2008 - 1 seat^[1]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	SNP	Anthea Dickson	48.92	1,363	1,380	1,415
	Labour	Gordon McKay	33.70	939	956	972
	Conservative	Ted Nevill	11.56	322	324	342
	Liberal Democrats	Lewis Hutton	3.37	94	104
	Socialist Labour	James McDaid	2.44	68
	SNP hold		Swing
Electorate: 11,232 Valid: 2,786 Spoilt: 20 Quota: 1,394 Turnout: 2,806 (24.98%)

A by-election arose in the Saltcoats and Stevenston Ward following the resignation of the Labour Party's David Munn and Jim Montgomorie held the seat for Labour on 25 August 2011.

Saltcoats and Stevenston by-election, 25 August 2011 - 1 seat^[2]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Labour	Jim Montgomerie	48.73	1,914	1,927	1,936	1,963	2,039
	SNP	Nan Wallace	33.25	1,306	1,311	1,326	1,363	1,425
	Conservative	Chris Barr	7.23	284	286	297	308	331
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Jimmy Miller	5.37	211	217	222	240
	Independent	Gerard Pollock	2.90	114	117	123
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Bain	1.43	56	57
	Socialist Labour	Louise McDaid	1.09	43
	Labour hold		Swing
Electorate: 11,039 Valid: 2,764 Spoilt: 42 Quota: 1,965 Turnout: 2,806 (25.42%)

References

Council elections in North Ayrshire

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