Elections to Inverclyde Council were held on the May 3, 2007 the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six 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 20 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.
Inverclyde Local Election Result 2007 | ||||||||||
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Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/- | ||
Labour | 9 | 45.0 | 37.9 | 12,194 | ||||||
SNP | 5 | 25.0 | 21.5 | 6,097 | ||||||
Liberal Democrats | 4 | 20.0 | 20.3 | 6,525 | ||||||
Conservative | 1 | 5.0 | 8.6 | 2,778 | ||||||
Solidarity | 0 | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 197 | |||||
Scottish Socialist | 0 | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 96 | |||||
UKIP | 0 | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 43 | |||||
Independent | 1 | 5.0 | 10.7 | 3,451 |
Inverclyde East | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Labour | Stephen McCabe | 2,122 | 30.1 | 1 | 1 | |
SNP | Jim MacLeod | 1,401 | 19.8 | 2 | 2 | |
Conservative | David Wilson | 1,369 | 19.4 | 3 | 5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Fyfe | 805 | 11.4 | 4 | 7 | |
Labour | Tom Monteith | 522 | 7.4 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Iain Tucker | 404 | 5.7 | |||
Independent | John Logan | 259 | 3.7 | |||
Solidarity | Denise McLaughlan | 179 | 2.5 |
Inverclyde East Central | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Labour | Michael McCormick | 2,065 | 43.5 | 1 | 1 | |
SNP | Jim Grieve | 1,132 | 23.8 | 2 | 2 | |
Labour | Robert Moran | 551 | 11.6 | 3 | 2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jean Stewart | 425 | 9.0 | |||
Conservative | Graeme Brooks | 234 | 4.9 | |||
Independent | Robert Kyle | 188 | 4.0 | |||
Independent | Tommy Murray | 95 | 2.0 | |||
Solidarity | Don Shearer | 57 | 1.2 |
Inverclyde North | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Labour | Jim Clocherty | 1,812 | 27.0 | 1 | 1 | |
SNP | Chris Osborne | 1,388 | 20.7 | 2 | 1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alan Blair | 1,150 | 17.1 | 3 | 6 | |
Labour | Charles McCallum | 571 | 8.5 | 4 | 8 | |
Independent | Frank McGlinn | 468 | 7.0 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Campbell Snoddy | 439 | 6.5 | |||
Conservative | Margaret Miller | 431 | 6.4 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Robbie Henderson | 342 | 5.1 | |||
Independent | Kit Shields | 114 | 1.7 |
Inverclyde South | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Labour | Iain McKenzie | 1,102 | 26.2 | 1 | 1 | |
Labour | Joseph McIlwee | 1,000 | 23.8 | 2 | 3 | |
SNP | Keith Brooks | 994 | 23.7 | 3 | 5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eddie Gallacher | 407 | 9.7 | |||
Independent | Stuart Cameron | 273 | 6.5 | |||
Conservative | Jim Strachan | 174 | 4.1 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Robert Burns | 155 | 3.7 | |||
Scottish Socialist | Davy Landels | 96 | 2.3 |
Inverclyde West | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Independent | Ronald Ahlfeld | 1,256 | 23.7 | 1 | 2 | |
Labour | Terry Loughran | 1,212 | 22.9 | 3 | 4 | |
SNP | John Crowther | 1,028 | 19.4 | |||
Liberal Democrats | George White | 828 | 15.6 | 2 | 4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kenny Wilson | 577 | 10.9 | |||
Conservative | Robert Hunter | 391 | 7.4 |
Inverclyde South West | ||||||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
SNP | Ken Ferguson | 964 | 23.2 | 2 | 5 | |
Independent | Innes Nelson | 741 | 17.8 | |||
Labour | Gerry Dorrian | 723 | 17.4 | 1 | 5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ciano Rebecchi | 544 | 13.1 | 3 | 6 | |
Labour | Alex McGhee | 514 | 12.4 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Eric Forbes | 449 | 10.8 | |||
Conservative | Harry Osborn | 179 | 4.3 | |||
UKIP | Peter Campbell | 43 | 1.0 |