2022 Stirling Council election

2022 Stirling Council election
All 23 seats to Stirling Council; 12 seats needed for a majority
	The 7 multi-member wards
Council Leader before election; Scott Farmer; SNP	Council Leader after election ; Chris Kane; Labour

2022 Elections to Stirling Council were held on 5 May 2022, 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 23 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

The election saw Scottish Labour increase their representation on the council by two and significantly increase their vote share. The SNP lost one seat and the Scottish Greens retained their single seat. The Scottish Conservatives saw their representation on the Council drop by two seats. The Scottish Liberal Democrats failed to win representation and one independent candidate won a seat.

2022 results

2022 Stirling Council election result
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
SNP	8	0	1	1	34.8	33.3	12,196	1.4
Conservative	7	0	2	2	30.4	31.5	11,522	5.7
Labour	6	2	0	2	26.1	16.1	5,899	0.1
Scottish Green	1	0	0	0	4.3	7.0	2,546	0.4
Independent	1	1	0	1	4.3	5.7	2,103	2.4
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0.0	5.0	1,841	1.7
Scottish Family	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.2	428	New
Alba	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	61	New

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 4 May 2017. 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

2017: 2xCon; 1xSNP
2022: 2xCon; 1xSNP
2017-2022: No change

Trossachs and Teith - 3 seats^[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Conservative	Martin Earl (incumbent)	37.8	2,031
	SNP	Gene Maxwell	19.2	1,031	1,053.0	1,054.0	1,064.7	1,238.4	1,377.5
	SNP	John Watson	14.2	761	773.5	774.5	785.5	874.2	945.2	974.7
	Labour	Josh Hamilton	9.1	491	530.6	534.9	610.1	764.2
	Scottish Green	Wendy Faulkner	8.3	444	480.2	485.5	537.6
	Conservative	Elaine Watterson	7.2	385	881.6	893.3	926.7	950.9	1,078.8	1,079.2	1,262.4
	Liberal Democrats	Galen Milne	3.5	188	218.4	223.8
	Scottish Family	Dolores Hughes	0.8	41	46.1
Electorate: 9,475 Valid: 5,372 Spoilt: 100 Quota: 1,344 Turnout: 57.8%

Forth and Endrick

2017: 2xCon; 1xSNP
2022: 1xCon; 1xSNP; 1xLab
2017-2022 Change: 1 Lab gain from Con

Forth and Endrick - 3 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Rosemary Fraser	24.1	1,451	1,454.0	1,484.0	1,570.0
	Conservative	Paul Henke	18.8	1,130	1,140.0	1,180.0	1,272.0	1,272.4	1,291.1	2,334.0
	Conservative	Thomas Heald	17.3	1,043	1,048.0	1,071.0	1,153.0	1,153.3	1,175.6
	Labour	Gerry McGarvey	14.0	846	857.0	996.0	1,137.0	1,140.4	1,438.0	1,481.1
	SNP	Paul Goodwin	11.1	671	672.0	687.0	719.0	776.4
	Independent	Rob Davies‡ (incumbent)	7.8	468	489.0	548.0
	Liberal Democrats	James MacLaren	5.7	345	355.0
	Scottish Family	Liam McKechnie	1.1	69
Electorate: 10,854 Valid: 6,023 Spoilt: 72 Quota: 1,506 Turnout: 56.2%

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan

2017: 2xCon; 1xSNP; 1xGreen
2022: 1xCon; 1xSNP; 1xGreen; 1xLab
2017-2022 Change: 1 Lab gain from Con

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan - 4 seats^[3]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Conservative	Douglas Dodds (incumbent)	21.6	1,536
	SNP	Graham Houston (incumbent)	17.8	1,266	1,268.0	1,269.0	1,293.0	1,317.3	1,815.3
	Scottish Green	Alasdair Tollemache (incumbent)	16.0	1,138	1,141.0	1,147.0	1,156.0	1,207.5	1,260.5	1,466.4
	Labour	Ewan Dillon	11.9	842	846.9	850.9	856.9	901.1	910.1	957.4	971.2	1,330.5	1,577.0
	Liberal Democrats	Fayzan Rehman	9.4	665	669.2	674.2	674.2	748.3	760.3	785.6	799.6
	Conservative	Willy Stirling	8.4	598	686.2	701.4	705.4	819.0	819.0	823.3	824.9	956.0
	SNP	Ahsan Khan	7.9	564	564.2	564.2	569.2	581.2
	Independent	Alastair George Majury (incumbent)	5.3	377	382.2	387.2	396.2
	Alba	Bill Cowan	0.9	61	61.1	64.1
	Scottish Family	Nickie Willis	0.7	50	50.3
Electorate: 11,911 Valid: 7,097 Spoilt: 102 Quota: 1,420 Turnout: 60.4%

Stirling North

2017: 2xSNP; 1xCon; 1xLab
2022: 2xSNP; 1xCon; 1xLab
2012-2017: No change

Stirling North - 4 seats^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Susan McGill (incumbent)	25.7	1,305
	Conservative	Rachel Nunn	22.8	1,161
	Labour	Danny Gibson (incumbent)	20.2	1,029
	SNP	Jim Thomson (incumbent)	12.6	642	872.7	878.2	879.6	886.3	908.4	1,474.8
	Scottish Green	Amy Smith	13.7	695	727.3	735.6	737.9	751.7	852.1
	Liberal Democrats	Oliver Franklin	3.7	190	195.3	254.1	257.6	276.2
	Scottish Family	Shena McLelland	1.3	64	64.9	77.7	78.3
Electorate: 11,589 Valid: 5,117 Spoilt: 91 Quota: 1,018 Turnout: 44.7%

Stirling West

2012: 1xLab; 1xSNP; 1xCon
2017: 1xCon; 1xSNP; 1xLab
2012-2017 Change: No change

Stirling West - 3 seats^[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Neil Benny (incumbent)	23.8	1,313	1,334.0	1,364.0	2,041.0
	SNP	Scott Farmer (incumbent)	21.9	1,207	1,214.0	1,239.0	1,240.0	1,258.9	1,279.9	2,038.4
	Labour	Jen Preston	20.0	1,100	1,118.0	1,268.0	1,302.0	1,509.2
	SNP	Morag Fulton	13.8	760	768.0	792.0	801.0	809.1	834.0
	Conservative	Alastair Pettigrew	13.3	730	742.0	762.0
	Liberal Democrats	Dick Moerman	5.2	285	296.0
	Scottish Family	Michael Willis	2.0	110
Electorate: 10,192 Valid: 5,505 Spoilt: 95 Quota: 1,377 Turnout: 54.9%

Stirling East

2017: 1xCon; 1xLab; 1xSNP
2022: 1xCon; 1xLab; 1xSNP
2017-2022: No change

Stirling East - 3 seats^[6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Gerry McLaughlan	30.7	1,177
	Conservative	Bryan Flannagan (incumbent)	23.3	893	895.0	905.0	925.0	931.2	999.2
	Labour	Chris Kane (incumbent)	21.6	829	839.4	848.4	877.7	933.9	1,019.6
	SNP	Grant Thoms	8.0	306	488.4	497.4	502.2	578.7	650.0
	Independent	Gary McGrow	7.9	303	305.8	310.8	323.0	359.7
	Scottish Green	Linda Hendry	4.7	182	189.8	194.1	213.9
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Murphy	2.4	91	93.2	98.2
	Scottish Family	David Tortolano	1.4	53	53.6
Electorate: 8,587 Valid: 3,834 Spoilt: 71 Quota: 959 Turnout: 45.5%

Bannockburn

2017: 2xSNP; 1xLab
2022: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xInd
2017-2022 Change: 1 Ind gain from SNP

Bannockburn - 3 seats^[7]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Independent	Alasdair MacPherson (incumbent)	26.0	955
	Labour	Margaret Brisley (incumbent)	20.7	762	770.1	775.3	794.8	813.3	839.8	900.8	1,188.2
	SNP	Brian Hambly	20.4	749	755.2	756.3	764.6	786.9	1,085.1
	Conservative	Stuart McLuckie	19.1	702	705.1	717.2	731.5	737.6	739.6	743.9
	SNP	Diane Tortolano	8.3	306	310.1	313.1	320.2	345.8
	Scottish Green	Marie Stadtler	2.4	87	88.8	93.0	101.1
	Liberal Democrats	Hilary MacPherson	2.1	77	78.5	81.6
	Scottish Family	Sophie Hendry	1.1	41	41.9
Electorate: 8,777 Valid: 3,679 Spoilt: 64 Quota: 920 Turnout: 42.6%

Notes

‡On 17 May 2017, Robert Davies (Forth and Endrick) was suspended from the Scottish Conservative party over potentially offensive Twitter posts.^[8]^[9] He was reinstated on 21 August 2017. However, on 29 September 2017, Robert Davies resigned from the Conservative group at a council meeting and subsequently had his Conservative party membership terminated. He ran as an independent in the 2022 election.^[10]

Aftermath

Despite the SNP winning the most seats, Labour formed a minority administration after the Conservatives voted in favour of it.^[11]

Changes since 2022

In October 2022, Labour councillor Ewan Dillon quit the party to become an independent. This reduced the ruling Labour administration to five councillors.^[12]

By-elections since 2022

A by-election was held in Dunblane and Bridge of Allan on 16 March 2023 following the death of SNP councillor Graham Houston.^[13]

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan by-election (16 March 2023) – 1 seat^[14]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Conservative	Robin Kleinman	41.0	1,832
	SNP	Ahsan Khan	26.9	1,202
	Labour	David Wilson	13.4	600
	Liberal Democrats	Dick Moerman	8.9	399
	Scottish Green	Clare Andrews	8.7	389
	Scottish Family	Nickie Willis	1.1	50
Valid: 4,074 Quota: Turnout: 38.1

A by-election will be held in Dunblane and Bridge of Allan on 25 January 2024 following the resignation of Conservative councillor Douglas Dodds due to health concerns.

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan by-election (25 January 2024) – 1 seat
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Thomas Heald	37.8	1,644	1,653	1,714	1,738	1,998	2,286
	SNP	Ahsan Khan	23.3	1,000
	Labour	David Wilson	20.2	869
	Scottish Green	Clare Andrews	10.1	433
	Liberal Democrats	Dick Moerman	6.8	292
	Scottish Family	Michael Willis	1.2	50
Electorate: 11,778 Valid: 4,288 Spoilt: 27 Quota: 2,145 Turnout: 36.6

References

^ "Stirling Ward 1 results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Ward 2 - Forth and Endrick results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Ward 3 - Dunblane and Bridge of Allan results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Ward 4 - Stirling North results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Ward 5 - Stirling West results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Ward 6 - Stirling East results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Ward 7 - Bannockburn results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Racist tweets councillor leaves Tories". BBC News. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ Jones, Gareth Iwan (12 May 2017). "Second newly-elected Tory councillor embroiled in offensive Twitter row". Daily Record. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ "Racist tweets councillor Robert Davies leaves Scottish Conservatives". BBC News. 29 September 2017.
^ Wilson, Louise (19 May 2022). "Comment: Labour's 'grown-up politics' is all talk". Holyrood.
^ Marjoribanks, Kaiya (19 October 2022). "Stirling councillor leaves Labour to become independent in political switch". Daily Record. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
^ "Tributes paid following the death of Councillor Graham Houston". Stirling Council. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
^ Meighan, Craig (17 March 2023). "Tories become largest party at Stirling Council after by-election win". STV News.

[1] "Stirling Ward 1 results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.

[2] "Ward 2 - Forth and Endrick results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.

[3] "Ward 3 - Dunblane and Bridge of Allan results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.

[4] "Ward 4 - Stirling North results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.

[5] "Ward 5 - Stirling West results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.

[6] "Ward 6 - Stirling East results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.

[7] "Ward 7 - Bannockburn results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.

[8] "Racist tweets councillor leaves Tories". BBC News. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[9] Jones, Gareth Iwan (12 May 2017). "Second newly-elected Tory councillor embroiled in offensive Twitter row". Daily Record. Retrieved 16 March 2018.

[10] "Racist tweets councillor Robert Davies leaves Scottish Conservatives". BBC News. 29 September 2017.

[11] Wilson, Louise (19 May 2022). "Comment: Labour's 'grown-up politics' is all talk". Holyrood.

[12] Marjoribanks, Kaiya (19 October 2022). "Stirling councillor leaves Labour to become independent in political switch". Daily Record. Retrieved 10 February 2023.

[13] "Tributes paid following the death of Councillor Graham Houston". Stirling Council. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.

[14] Meighan, Craig (17 March 2023). "Tories become largest party at Stirling Council after by-election win". STV News.

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