Milngavie is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the East Dunbartonshire Council. It elects three Councillors. Its territory (which has not altered since its creation in 2007) consists of the entire burgh of Milngavie, and a sparsely populated hinterland to its north-west, bordering the West Dunbartonshire and Stirling local authority areas.[2][3] In 2020, the ward had a population of 13,572.[4]
Location of the ward in East Dunbartonshire[1]
Councillors
edit| Election | Councillors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jim Gibbons (SNP) |
Bill Binks (Conservative) |
Eric Gotts (Liberal Democrats) | |||
| 2012[5] | Maureen Henry (Labour) | |||||
| 2017 | Graeme McGinnigle (Conservative) |
Jim Goodall (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2022[6] | Alix Mathieson (Conservative) |
Aileen Polson (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
Election results
edit2022 election
edit2022 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons (incumbent) | 24.89% | 1,566 | |||||
| Conservative | Alix Mathieson | 20.69% | 1,293 | 1,293.05 | 1,303.06 | 1,448.07 | 1,586.08 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Aileen Polson | 16.49% | 1,031 | 1,031.26 | 1,217.49 | 1,449.63 | 2,159.10 | |
| Labour | Thomas Shepherd | 13.49% | 869 | 869.37 | 1,100.79 | 1,364.99 | ||
| Independent | Julie Duncan | 13.28% | 830 | 830.29 | 948.69 | |||
| Scottish Green | Emma Sheppard | 10.56% | 660 | 661.59 | ||||
| Electorate: 10,661 Valid: 6,249 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,563 Turnout: 59.1% | ||||||||
2017 election
edit2017 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Conservative | Graeme McGinnigle | 27.69% | 1,701 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jim Goodall | 27.64% | 1,698 | |||||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons (incumbent) | 22.38% | 1,375 | 1,381 | 1,393 | 1,486 | 1,957 | |
| Labour | Maureen Henry (incumbent) | 9.29% | 571 | 624 | 684 | 796 | 838 | |
| SNP | Kate Waddell | 7.68% | 472 | 473 | 478 | 560 | ||
| Scottish Green | Gordon Masterton | 5.32% | 327 | 342 | 372 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 6,144 Spoilt: 98 Quota: 1,537 Turnout: 58.7% | ||||||||
2012 election
edit2012 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Eric Gotts (incumbent) | 36.6 | 1,751 | |||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons (incumbent) | 28.0 | 1,338 | |||
| Labour | Maureen Henry | 20.0 | 955 | 1,177 | 1,283 | |
| Conservative | Bill Binks (incumbent) | 14.6 | 696 | 866 | 889 | |
| Electorate: 10,289 Valid: 4,740 Spoilt: 42 Quota: 1,186 Turnout: 46.07% | ||||||
2007 election
edit2007 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons | 20.1 | 1,310 | 1,327 | 1,388 | 1,475 | 1,581 | 1,637 | |||
| Conservative | Bill Binks | 18.8 | 1,230 | 1,234 | 1,277 | 1,305 | 1,372 | 1,436 | 1,436 | 1,742 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Eric Gotts | 18.8 | 1,226 | 1,229 | 1,257 | 1,304 | 1,951 | ||||
| Labour | Peter Ritchie | 17.8 | 1,161 | 1,175 | 1,217 | 1,263 | 1,336 | 1,400 | 1,400 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Fiona Risk | 14.1 | 919 | 924 | 962 | 1,051 | |||||
| EDIA | Pat Ryan | 4.7 | 308 | 314 | |||||||
| Scottish Green | Emma Sheppard | 4.7 | 307 | 319 | 364 | ||||||
| Scottish Socialist | Bill Newman | 1.1 | 71 | ||||||||
| Electorate: Valid: 6,532 Spoilt: 61 Quota: 1,634 Turnout: 65.12% | |||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ 5th Reviews - ward maps | East Dunbartonshire | Ward 1 Milngavie, Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 17 April 2022
- ^ Councillors 2017, East Dunbartonshire Council. Retrieved 17 April 2022
- ^ Electoral Ward | Milngavie, Scottish Government Statistics. Retrieved 17 April 2022
- ^ a b "East Dunbartonshire Election Results". East Dunbartonshire Council. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2012.
- ^ "East Dunbartonshire Election Results". East Dunbartonshire Council. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ "Local Government election results 2022". East Dunbartonshire Council. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
- ^ "Local elections latest – massive win for Independent Cumming, joy for Labour and misery for Tories". milngavieherald.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 June 2012.