Argyll and Bute Council election, 2007

Elections to Argyll and Bute 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 11 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 36 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

Contents

1 Election result
2 Ward results
3 References

Election result

Argyll and Bute Local Election Result 2007
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	SNP	10	N/A	N/A	+7	27.8	22.2	8,921
	Liberal Democrats	7	N/A	N/A	–1	19.4	19.2	7,702
	Conservative	3	N/A	N/A	+1	8.3	15.7	6,301
	Labour	0	N/A	N/A	±0	0.0	3.7	1,471
	Solidarity	0	N/A	N/A	±0	0.0	0.2	76
	Independent	16	N/A	N/A	–7	44.4	39.1	15,715

Ward results

South Kintyre
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Donald Kelly	1,332	42.9	1	1
	SNP	John Donald Semple	663	21.3	2	4
	Labour	George McMillan	444	14.3
	Liberal Democrats	Rory Colville	441	14.2	3	6
	Conservative	James Campbell Martin	152	4.9
	Solidarity	Deirdre Henderson	76	2.4

Kintyre and the Islands
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Currie	1,131	34.6	1	1
	Independent	John McAlpine	608	18.6	2	5
	SNP	Anne Horn	482	14.7	3	7
	Independent	Ann Newman	342	10.5
	Conservative	Peter Minshall	300	9.2
	Labour	Phil Hawkins	219	6.7
	Independent	Maureen Scott	190	5.8

Mid Argyll
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Hay	813	22.0	1	4
	Independent	Donnie MacMillan	699	18.9	2	6
	SNP	Colin Stevenson	625	16.9
	Independent	Douglas Trevor Philand	582	15.7	3	8
	Independent	Sandy Cameron	344	9.3
	Conservative	Charlotte Hanbury	305	8.2
	Labour	Wendy Reynolds	225	6.1
	Independent	Cameron Lewis	106	2.9

Oban South and the Isles
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Roderick William McCuish	955	23.3	1	1
	Liberal Democrats	Mary-Jean Devon	672	16.4	2	5
	SNP	Donald Skye McIntosh	506	12.4	3	9
	Independent	Gordon Chalmers	444	10.9	4	9
	Conservative	Roy Rutherford	413	10.1
	Independent	Alastair MacDougall	347	8.5
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Welsh	293	7.2
	Independent	Neil MacKinnon MacIntyre	290	7.1
	Independent	Roderick MacEachen	143	3.5
	Independent	David Gallant	27	0.7

Oban North and Lorn
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Elaine Robertson	1,005	22.0	1	1
	Independent	Duncan MacIntyre	779	17.1	2	5
	Liberal Democrats	Neil MacKay	665	14.6	3	8
	SNP	Donald MacDonald	618	13.6	4	10
	SNP	Mike MacKenzie	401	8.8
	Conservative	Eileen Mary Kirkpatrick	387	8.5
	Independent	Ian Smyth	200	4.4
	Independent	Sidney MacDougall	188	4.1
	Independent	George Doyle	176	3.9
	Independent	Gwen Cameron	140	3.1

Cowal
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Ron Simon	1,127	29.8	1	1
	Independent	Alex McNaughton	880	23.3	2	3
	Independent	Bruce Marshall	745	19.7	3	5
	Conservative	Dave Petrie	491	13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Oxborrow	346	9.2
	Independent	Iain Jarvis Gow	192	5.1

Dunoon
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Dick Walsh	855	24.6	1	2
	SNP	Alister MacAlister	821	23.6	3	4
	Independent	Jimmy McQueen	754	21.7	2	4
	Labour	David Graham	358	10.3
	Liberal Democrats	Tony Miles	257	7.4
	Conservative	Sandy MacPherson	239	6.9
	Independent	Gordon McKinven	193	5.6

Isle of Bute
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Len Scoullar	868	28.2	1	1
	SNP	Robert MacIntyre	839	27.2	2	1
	SNP	Isobel Strong	551	17.9	3	6
	Independent	Fraser Gillies	238	7.7
	Labour	Harry Hattan	225	7.3
	Liberal Democrats	Karen Anne Hilton	218	7.1
	Conservative	Peter Wallace	143	4.6

Lomond North
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Billy Petrie	794	22.2	1	3
	Independent	Danny Kelly	734	20.5	2	4
	Independent	George Freeman	616	17.2	3	6
	SNP	Elizabeth Buist	557	15.6
	Conservative	James Proctor	484	13.5
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Nisbet	395	11.0

2007 Council election: Helensburgh Central
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Gary Mulvaney	1,220	27.7	1	1
	SNP	James Alexander Robb	822	18.6	4	4
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Morton	734	16.6
	Liberal Democrats	Al Reay	728	16.5	2	4
	Independent	Vivien Dance	707	16.0	3	4
	Independent	Richard William Humphrey	198	4.5

2007 Council election: Helensburgh and Lomond South
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	David Fairbairn Kinniburgh	835	26.7	1	1
	Independent	Ronald Kinloch	713	22.8	3	4
	Liberal Democrats	Ellen Morton	700	22.4	2	3
	SNP	Richard MacDonald Trail	572	18.3
	Liberal Democrats	Karen York	309	9.9

References