Dundee City Council election, 2007
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Elections to Dundee City 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[1], 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.
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[edit] Election results
The votes and percentage of vote share are based on first preference votes.
| Dundee Local Election Result 2007 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net Gain/Loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/- | |
| Scottish National Party | 13 | +2 | 44.83 | 39.97 | 20,804 | ||||
| Labour | 10 | 0 | 34.48 | 29.38 | 15,294 | ||||
| Conservative | 3 | -2 | 10.34 | 12.52 | 6,516 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | 2 | 0 | 6.90 | 11.29 | 5,878 | ||||
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 3.45 | 3.04 | 1,582 | ||||
| Solidarity | 0 | 0.00 | 1.93 | 1,002 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0.00 | 1.28 | 664 | |||||
| Scottish Green | 0 | 0.00 | 0.59 | 307 | |||||
[edit] Ward results
| 2007 Council election: Strathmartine | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Scottish National Party | Stewart Hunter | 1,612 | 23.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Independent | Ian Borthwick | 1,472 | 21.3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Labour | Kevin Keenan | 1,219 | 17.7 | 3 | 7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Helen Dick | 959 | 13.9 | 4 | 9 | |
| Scottish National Party | Wendy Wrieden | 725 | 10.5 | |||
| Labour | John McKiddie | 534 | 7.7 | |||
| Conservative | Martyn Geddes | 186 | 2.7 | |||
| Solidarity | Jim McFarlane | 120 | 1.7 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Alan Boylan | 75 | 1.1 | |||
| Turnout | 50.41 | |||||
| 2007 Council election: Lochee | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Scottish National Party | Nigel Don | 2,216 | 31.1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | John Letford | 1,385 | 19.4 | 3 | 3 | |
| Scottish National Party | Bob Duncan | 1,142 | 16.0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Labour | Tom Ferguson | 940 | 13.2 | 4 | 9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Chris Hall | 479 | 6.7 | |||
| Conservative | Philip Varghese | 369 | 5.2 | |||
| Labour | Chris Hind | 297 | 4.2 | |||
| Solidarity | Neil Bell | 218 | 3.1 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Alan Albert Graham | 83 | 1.2 | |||
| Turnout | 52.36 | |||||
| 2007 Council election: West End | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Liberal Democrats | Fraser MacPherson | 1,693 | 28.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Richard McCready | 1,331 | 22.0 | 2 | 1 | |
| Scottish National Party | James Walker Barrie | 1,326 | 21.9 | 3 | 1 | |
| Conservative | Donald Hay | 738 | 12.2 | 4 | 8 | |
| Scottish National Party | Chic Brodie | 495 | 8.2 | |||
| Scottish Green | George Alexander Burton | 307 | 5.1 | |||
| Solidarity | Luke Ivory | 95 | 1.6 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Angela Gorrie | 69 | 1.1 | |||
| Turnout | 49.55 | |||||
| 2007 Council election: Coldside | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Scottish National Party | James Black | 1,740 | 24.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Helen Wright | 1,320 | 18.3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Scottish National Party | Dave Bowes | 1,033 | 14.4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Labour | Mohammed Asif | 849 | 11.8 | 4 | 10 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Murray Dick | 779 | 10.8 | |||
| Labour | David Cowan | 774 | 10.8 | |||
| Conservative | Margaret Stewart | 351 | 4.9 | |||
| Solidarity | Sinead Daly | 141 | 2.0 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Mary McGregor | 128 | 1.8 | |||
| Independent | Stuart Winton | 80 | 1.1 | |||
| Turnout | 50.30 | |||||
| 2007 Council election: Maryfield | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Scottish National Party | Elizabeth Fordyce | 1,247 | 25.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Joe Morrow | 1,172 | 23.8 | 2 | 5 | |
| Scottish National Party | Ken Lynn | 941 | 19.1 | 3 | 8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Claire Matthew | 644 | 13.1 | |||
| Conservative | John McCraw | 410 | 8.3 | |||
| Labour | Alex Perry | 339 | 6.9 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Grant Cromar | 96 | 1.9 | |||
| Solidarity | Mark Walker | 83 | 1.7 | |||
| Turnout | 46.21 | |||||
| 2007 Council election: North East | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Scottish National Party | Andy Dawson | 1,956 | 41.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Brian Gordon | 1,392 | 29.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| Scottish National Party | Willie Sawers | 612 | 13.0 | 3 | 5 | |
| Labour | Shane Trevor Mochrie-Cox | 208 | 4.4 | |||
| Conservative | Gladys Ross | 184 | 3.9 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Donald Ross MacDonald | 162 | 3.4 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Helen Mary Fortune | 92 | 1.9 | |||
| Solidarity | Leah Ganley | 83 | 1.8 | |||
| Independent | Raymond Anthony Mennie | 30 | 0.6 | |||
| Turnout | 45.33 | |||||
| 2007 Council election: East End | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Scottish National Party | William Dawson | 1,980 | 34.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | George Regan | 957 | 16.6 | 3 | 8 | |
| Labour | George McIrvine | 913 | 15.8 | |||
| Scottish National Party | Christina Roberts | 810 | 14.0 | 2 | 6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Allan Petrie | 529 | 9.2 | |||
| Conservative | Roberta Mackie | 325 | 5.6 | |||
| Solidarity | Jim Malone | 208 | 3.6 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Heather Ferguson | 56 | 1.0 | |||
| Turnout | 49.39 | |||||
| 2007 Council election: The Ferry | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Scottish National Party | Kenneth Guild | 2,400 | 25.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Laurie Bidwell | 1,664 | 17.8 | 2 | 5 | |
| Conservative | Derek Scott | 1,604 | 17.2 | 3 | 8 | |
| Conservative | Rod Wallace | 1,211 | 13.0 | 4 | 8 | |
| Conservative | Charlie Webster | 1,138 | 12.2 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Raymond Lawrie | 633 | 6.8 | |||
| Scottish National Party | Robert Piggot | 569 | 6.1 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Alasdair Brydie Robertson Stewart | 65 | 0.7 | |||
| Solidarity | Philip Stott | 54 | 0.6 | |||
| Turnout | 61.82 | |||||
| Preceded by Dundee City Council election, 2003 |
Dundee City Council elections | Succeeded by Dundee City Council election, 2011 |
