Angus Council election, 2007

Elections to Angus Council were held on the May 3, 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 8 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 29 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

[edit] Election result

 13 Seats - SNP
 5  Seats - Conservatives
 3  Seats - Lib Dems
 2  Seats - Labour
 6  Seats - Independents

2007 Council election: Kirriemuir and Dean
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Andrews
	Scottish National Party	Iain Gaul
	Conservative	Ian Mackintosh
	Labour	Derek David Ramsay
	Scottish National Party	Christine Urquhart

2007 Council election: Brechin and Edzell
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	David Adam
	Scottish National Party	Mairi Evans
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Fleming
	Independent	Ruth Leslie-Melville
	Conservative	Elaine Milne
	Scottish National Party	Joy Mowatt
	Independent	Bob Myles
	Labour	Ron Thoms

2007 Council election: Forfar and District
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Colin Brown
	Labour	Mitch Cameron
	Scottish National Party	Glennis Middleton
	Scottish National Party	William Middleton
	Independent	John Phillip
	Conservative	John Rymer
	Liberal Democrats	Avril Simpson

2007 Council election: Monifieth and Sidlaw
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Scottish National Party	Frank Ellis
	Independent	Craig Fotheringham
	Scottish National Party	Rob Murray
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Petrie
	Labour	Margaret Thomson
	Conservative	John R Whyte

2007 Council election: Carnoustie and District
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	John Richard Hillman
	Solidarity	Alan Manley
	Labour	Peter Murphy
	Scottish National Party	Helen Oswald
	Scottish National Party	Ralph Palmer
	Liberal Democrats	Eddie Wilmott

2007 Council election: Arbroath West and Letham
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	David Fairweather
	Scottish National Party	Alex King
	Conservative	David Lumgair
	Scottish National Party	Brian Milne
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Nield
	Independent	Rob Pearce
	Independent	Anne Marie Sim
	Labour	Joan Warren

2007 Council election: Arbroath East and Lunan
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Liberal Democrats	Ginny Graham
	Conservative	Jim Millar
	Scottish National Party	Donald Morrison
	Independent	Robert Ritchie Spink
	Labour	Alastair John Stuart
	Independent	Ian Watson
	Scottish National Party	Sheena Welsh

2007 Council election: Montrose and District
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Ingram Bruce
	Liberal Democrats	David May
	Independent	Mark Salmond
	Labour	James Sinclair
	Scottish National Party	Paul Valentine
	Scottish National Party	Sandy West
	Independent	Joe Wishart