2012 Stirling Council election

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2012 Stirling Council election
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All 22 seats to Stirling Council
12 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Graham Houston Corrie McChord Alistair Berrill
Party SNP
Labour
Conservative
Leader's seat Dunblane and Bridge of Allan Stirling East Forth and Endrick
Last election 7 seats, 31.8% 8 seats, 36.4% 4 seats, 18.2%
Seats before 7 8 4
Seats won 9 8 4
Seat change Increase2 Steady0 Steady0
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Mark Ruskell Graham Reed
Party
Scottish Green
 Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat Dunblane and Bridge of Allan Castle defeated
Last election 0 seat, 0% 3 seat, 13.6%
Seats before 0 3
Seats won 1 0
Seat change Increase1 Decrease3
Council Leader before election

Graham Houston
SNP

Council Leader after election

Corrie McChord

Labour

Elections to Stirling Council were held on 3 May 2012, the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the seven wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 22 councillors being elected. Each ward will elect either three or four members, using the STV electoral system.

The election saw the

Scottish Green Party gained a seat on the authority. By contrast the Scottish Liberal Democrats
were wiped out losing all their three seats.

Following the election a coalition was formed between the Labour Party and the Conservatives which replaced the previous SNP minority administration.

Election result

Stirling Local Election Result 2012
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  SNP 9 2 0 +2 40.91 37.17 10,626 +7.97
 
Labour
 8 2 2 0 36.36 28.61 8,180 +0.41
 
Conservative
 4 0 0 0 18.18 19.90 5,689 -5.40
 
Scottish Green
 1 1 0 +1 4.55 5.80 1,658 +4.10
  Liberal Democrats 0 0 3 -3 0.00 5.46 1,562 -6.04
 
UKIP
 0 - - - - 0.92 261 +0.82
 
Independent
 0 - - - - 1.58 449 -2.12

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Ward results

Trossachs and Teith

  • 2007: 1xSNP; 1xCon; 1xLab
  • 2012: 2xSNP; 1xCon
  • 2007-2012 Change: SNP gain from Lab
Trossachs and Teith – 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Conservative
 Martin Earl 30.29% 1,285          
SNP Alycia Hayes 23.76% 1,008 1,027.2 1,054.1 1,109.6    
SNP Fergus Wood (incumbent) 21.28% 903 925.7 947.3 984.3 1,023.6 1,283.2
Labour
 Gerry McGarvey 15.84% 672 690.3 732.5 804.1 808.1  
Independent
 Jack Black 5.23% 222 260.2 307.7      
Liberal Democrats Galen Milne 3.61% 153 199.9        
Electorate: 8,464   Valid: 4,243   Spoilt: 72   Quota: 1,061   Turnout: 4,315 (50.13%)  

Forth and Endrick

  • 2007: 1xLab; 1xSNP; 1xCon
  • 2012: 2xSNP; 1xCon
  • 2007-2012 Change: SNP gain one seat from Lab
Forth and Endrick – 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Conservative
 Alistair Berrill (incumbent) 23.58% 1,097 1,128 1,198        
SNP Graham Lambie (incumbent) 19.60% 912 927 944 945.2 1,016.3 1,041.4 1,171.4
SNP Ian Muirhead 18.49% 860 894 928 929.3 991.4 1,020.4 1,201.7
Labour
 Alistair William Weir 16.14% 751 788 824 824.9 917.0 982.4  
Conservative
 Philip Graves 6.64% 309 328 356 383.2 408.7    
UKIP
 Paul Henke 5.61% 261 271          
Scottish Green
 Gordon Kerr Cowtan 5.55% 258 298 335 336.2      
Liberal Democrats Alison McGilvray 4.39% 204            
Electorate: 8,464   Valid: 4,652   Spoilt: 56   Quota: 1,164   Turnout: 4,708 (48.79%)  

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan

  • 2007: 1xSNP; 1xCon; 1xLab; 1xLib Dem
  • 2012: 1xSNP; 1xCon; 1xLab; 1xGRN
  • 2007-2012 Change: GRN gain one seat from Lib Dem
Dunblane and Bridge of Allan – 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5
SNP Graham Houston (incumbent) 27.31% 1,494        
Conservative
 Callum Campbell (incumbent) 23.07% 1,262        
Labour
 Mike Robbins 21.29% 1,165        
Scottish Green
 Mark Ruskell 16.63% 910 951.1 981 1,006.1 1,251
Liberal Democrats Gary Airnes 6.32% 346 368.4 427.1 442.4  
SNP Ian Smith 5.37% 294 604.1 615.8 624.4 683.9
Electorate: 12,193   Valid: 5,471   Spoilt: 76   Quota: 1,095   Turnout: 5,547 (44.87%)  

Castle

  • 2007: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xLib Dem
  • 2012: 2xLab; 1xSNP
  • 2007-2012 Change: Lab gain one seat from Lib Dem
Castle – 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
SNP Jim Thomson (incumbent) 27.54% 828            
Labour
 John Hendry (incumbent) 18.89% 568 570.1 581.2 606.5 643.2 673.3 759.8
Labour
 Johanna Boyd 17.59% 529 530.6 544.7 556.5 588.3 631.3 748.1
Scottish Green
 Zara Kitson 10.87% 327 331 366.5 409.9 497.3 575.7  
Conservative
 Jennifer Gordon 8.71% 262 262.6 287.9 294.1 326.4    
Independent
 Steve Sankey 7.55% 227 228.8 250.2 288.1      
SNP David Wilson 4.72% 142 201.7 207.9        
Liberal Democrats Graham Reed (incumbent) 4.12% 124 126.8          
Electorate: 7,843   Valid: 3,007   Spoilt: 67   Quota: 752   Turnout: 3,074 (38.34%)  

Stirling West

  • 2007: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon
  • 2012: 1xLab; 1xSNP; 1xCon
  • 2007-2012 Change: No change
Stirling West – 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1
SNP Scott Farmer 36.61% 1,484
Labour
 Christine Simpson 31.01 1,257
Conservative
 Neil Benny 25.04 1,015
Liberal Democrats Gordon Bruce 7.35 298
Electorate: 8,611   Valid: 4,054   Spoilt: 44   Quota: 1,014   Turnout: 4,098 (47.08%)  

Stirling East

  • 2007: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xLib Dem
  • 2012: 2xLab; 1xSNP
  • 2007-2012: Change: Lab gain one seat from Lib Dem
Stirling East – 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5
SNP Steven Paterson (incumbent)† 33.06 1,278        
Labour
 Corrie McChord (incumbent) 22.30 862 925.8 961.6 992.2  
Labour
 Danny Gibson 22.19 858 892.6 929.1 957.6 978.3
Liberal Democrats Ian Alexander Brown (incumbent) 10.42 403 436.3 507.9 642 642.9
Conservative
 Benjamin Kerr 7.81 302 320.5 333.2    
Scottish Green
 Johannes Butscher 4.22 163 224.6      
Electorate: 8,611   Valid: 3,866   Spoilt: 77   Quota: 967   Turnout: 3,943 (41.09%)  

Bannockburn

  • 2007: 2xLab; 1xSNP
  • 2012: 2xLab; 1xSNP
  • 2007-2012 Change: No change
Bannockburn – 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
SNP Alasdair MacPherson (incumbent) 37.49% 1,236            
Labour
 Margaret Brisley (incumbent) 34.36% 1,133            
Labour
 Violet Weir (incumbent) 11.68% 385 409.9 664.7 671.4 704.6 766.1 910.1
SNP Gerry McLaughlan 5.67% 187 516.2 527.3 531.6 549.9 596.6  
Independent
 Bill McDonald 5.0% 165 181.3 190.8 203.6 259.6    
Conservative
 Lesley Stein 4.76% 157 160.7 162.3 170.3      
Liberal Democrats David Kaufman 1.0% 34 38.2 44.3        
Electorate: 8,611   Valid: 3,297   Spoilt: 118   Quota: 825   Turnout: 3,415 (40.8%)  

Post-Election Changes

†On 7 May 2015, Stirling East SNP Cllr Steven Paterson was elected as the MP for Stirling. He resigned his Council seat on 30 June 2015.[1] A by-election was held on 1 October 2015 to fill the vacancy and the seat was held by the SNP's Gerry McLaughlan.

By-Elections since 2012

Stirling East By-election (1 October 2015) – 1 Seat[2]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3
SNP Gerry McLaughlan 45.2% 1,311 1,367 1,388
Labour
 Chris Kane 37.7% 1,094 1,134 1,272
Conservative
 Luke Davison 11.8% 343 352  
Scottish Green
 Alasdair Tollemache 5.2% 152    
Electorate: 10,460   Valid: 2,900   Spoilt: 28   Quota: 1,451   Turnout: 2,928  

References

  1. ^ "Steven Paterson resigns Council role". stirlingsnp.com. 30 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Stirling Council – Elections – upcoming elections". stirling.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 4 October 2015.

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