Stirling Council election, 2007

Elections to Stirling 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 seven 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 22 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

Election results

Stirling Local Election Result 2007^[1]^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	8	N/A	N/A	-3	36.4	28.2	11,112
	SNP	7	N/A	N/A	+6	31.8	29.2	11,529
	Conservative	4	N/A	N/A	-6	18.2	25.3	9,992
	Liberal Democrats	3	N/A	N/A	+3	13.6	11.5	4,542
	Scottish Green	0	N/A	N/A	0	0.0	1.7	675
	Scottish Socialist	0	N/A	N/A	0	0.0	0.2	69
	UKIP	0	N/A	N/A	0	0.0	0.1	58
	Independent	0	N/A	N/A	0	0.0	3.7	1,442

Ward results

Stirling council election, 2007: Trossachs and Teith
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Fergus Wood	1,789	33.0	1	1
	Conservative	Tony Ffinch	1,065	19.7	2	4
	Labour	Paul Owens	839	15.5	3	4
	Conservative	Mark Kenyon	782	14.4
	Liberal Democrats	Galen Milne	568	10.5
	Independent	Charles Grant	373	6.9

Stirling council election, 2007: Forth and Endrick
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Colin O'Brien	1,705	26.0	1	1
	SNP	Graham Lambie	1,500	22.9	2	4
	Conservative	Alistair Berrill	1,281	19.6	3	5
	Conservative	David Lonsdale	1,180	18.0
	Liberal Democrats	Rona Sutherland	823	12.6
	UKIP	Paul Henke	58	0.9

Stirling council election, 2007: Dunblane and Bridge of Allan
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Graham Houston	1,794	22.8	1	1
	Conservative	Callum Campbell	1,455	18.5	2	4
	Labour	Colin Finlay	1,294	16.5	4	6
	Liberal Democrats	David Goss	1,067	13.6	3	6
	Conservative	Helen McCrea	801	10.2
	Independent	Bill Baird	707	9.0
	Scottish Green	Duncan Illingworth	675	8.6
	Scottish Socialist	Jennifer Haston	69	0.9

Stirling council election, 2007: Castle
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Jim Thomson	1,482	36.1	1	1
	Labour	John Hendry	1,083	26.4	2	1
	Conservative	Lesley Stein	596	14.5
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Reed	456	11.1	3	5
	Labour	Frances Junnier	340	8.3
	Independent	James McDonald	146	3.6

Stirling council election, 2007: Stirling West
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Scott Farmer	1,674	30.2	1	1
	Labour	Andrew Simpson	1,041	18.8	2	3
	Conservative	Neil Benny	1,005	18.2	4	6
	Conservative	Gerry Power	740	13.3
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Bruce	699	12.6
	Labour	Christine Simpson	376	6.8

Stirling council election, 2007: Stirling East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Steven Paterson	1,821	32.9	1	1
	Labour	Corrie McChord	1,396	25.2	2	1
	Labour	Charles McKean	779	14.0
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Brown	765	13.8	3	4
	Conservative	Helen Scott	764	13.8

Stirling council election, 2007: Bannockburn
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Alasdair MacPherson	1,469	31.9	1	1
	Labour	Margaret Brisley	1,376	29.8	2	1
	Labour	Gerard O'Brien	883	19.1	3	3
	Conservative	Alistair McCulloch	323	7.0
	Independent	Stephen Evans	216	4.7
	Liberal Democrats	David Smith	164	3.6

By-elections Since 2007

Labour's Gerard O'Brien resigned having been found guilty of breaches of the Councillors Code of Conduct. Violet Weir held the seat for the party on 30 April 2009

Bannockburn By-Election (30 April 2009)- 1 seat^[3]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Labour	Violet Weir	39.89	1,131	1,134	1,141	1,162	1,175	1,196	1,288
	SNP	Bill McDonald	37.64	1,067	1,072	1,078	1,095	1,110	1,162	1,228
	Independent	Tommy Brookes	8.08	229	232	235	240	272	303
	Conservative	Catherine Berrill	6.10	173	176	178	194	201
	Independent	Breda O'Brien	2.89	89	94	96	99
	Liberal Democrats	Ethne Brown	2.89	82	83	91
	Scottish Green	Duncan Illingsworth	1.27	36	36
	Independent	Paul Campbell	0.99	28
	Labour hold		Swing
Electorate: 8,170 Valid: 2,835 Quota: 1,419 Turnout: 34.7%

References

↑ "Local and Scottish". Stirling Council. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
↑ "Stirling". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
↑ http://www.alba.org.uk/localby/bannockburn2009.html

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