Aberdeen City Council election, 2007

Elections to Aberdeen City Council were held on the May 3, 2007 the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 13 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^[1]. The new wards replace 43 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

[edit] Results

  Lib Dems- Seats 15
  SNP - Seats 12
  Labour - Seats 10
  Conservatives - Seats 5
  Independents - Seats 1

2007 Council election: Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Avril Elizabeth Russell MacKenzie
	Scottish National Party	Mark McDonald
	Scottish Green	Rhonda Reekie
	Liberal Democrats	George Penny
	Liberal Democrats	Ron Clark
	Labour	Barney Crockett
	Independent	Dennis Forbes Grattan
	Independent	Angela Dunn

2007 Council election: Bridge of Don
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Brian George Davidson
	Independent	Hamish Hay Mackay
	Scottish National Party	Muriel Jaffrey
	Liberal Democrats	Millie Mcleod
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Andrew Leslie
	Liberal Democrats	John Michael Reynolds
	Labour	Willie Young

2007 Council election: Kingswells/Sheddocksley
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Bill Berry
	Scottish National Party	Wendy Alison Stuart
	Liberal Democrats	Peter James Stephen
	Liberal Democrats	David Anthony Young
	British National Party	Steven Thomson
	Labour	Len Ironside
	Labour	Rose Clayton

2007 Council election: Northfield
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Pat Wokoma
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Freel
	Scottish National Party	Jackie Dunbar
	Scottish National Party	Kevin Stewart
	Labour	Ramsay Milne
	Labour	Gordon Graham

2007 Council election: Hilton/Stockethill
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Scottish National Party	Kirsty West
	Liberal Democrats	Neil Derek Fletcher
	Conservative	Frank Webster
	Labour	George Adam
	Labour	Charlie Pirie

2007 Council election: Tillydrone/Seaton/Old Aberdeen
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Scottish National Party	Jim Noble
	Scottish Green	Daniel Johnston
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Bannerman Robertson
	Solidarity	Angela Cecilia McLeman
	Conservative	Hannah Dolan
	Labour	Norman Collie
	Labour	Sandra MacDonald

2007 Council election: Midstocket/Rosemount
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	John Porter
	Scottish National Party	Bill Cormie
	Liberal Democrats	Jim Donaldson
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Delaney
	Scottish Socialist	Christine Chandler
	Labour	Jenny Laing

2007 Council election: George St/Harbour
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Scottish National Party	Andrew May
	Scottish Green	Clive Kempe
	Liberal Democrats	John David Stewart
	Conservative	Alexander Olsen
	Labour	M. Tauqeer Malik
	Labour	Jim Hunter

2007 Council election: Lower Deeside
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Alan Milne
	Independent	Marie Boulton
	Scottish National Party	David Adam
	Labour	Marianne Elizabeth
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Michael Malone
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Jacqueline Malone

2007 Council election: Hazlehead/Ashley/Queens Cross
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Fraser Forsyth
	Conservative	Jim Farquharson
	Scottish National Party	John West
	Scottish Socialist	Howard Chandler
	Liberal Democrats	Martin Greig
	Scottish Green	Rachel Shanks
	Labour	Timothy David Harris
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Anne Stewart

2007 Council election: Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Jill Wisely
	Scottish National Party	Rigg Robertson
	Independent	Graham Murray Bennett
	Labour	Allan McIntosh
	Liberal Democrats	Scott Cassie
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Gillan Yuill

2007 Council election: Torry/Ferryhill
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Alan Donnelly
	Scottish National Party	Jim Kiddie
	Scottish Green	John Reekie
	Independent	Chris Cowie
	Solidarity	Shug Falconer
	Labour	Yvonne Allan
	Labour	Ted Harris
	Liberal Democrats	Irene Cormack
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Petchey

2007 Council election: Kincorth/Loriston
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Graeme Webster
	Scottish National Party	Callum John McCaig
	Independent	Daniel James Yeats
	Labour	Neil Cooney
	Solidarity	Paul Ronaid Andrew Mitcheson
	Labour	Sue Rae
	Liberal Democrats	Katharine Mary Dean
	Liberal Democrats	Angus Easton