East Ayrshire Council election, 2012

Main article: Scottish local elections, 2012

3 May 2012 (2012-05-03)

All 32 seats to East Ayrshire Council 17 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Douglas Reid	Maureen McKay	Tom Cook
Party	SNP	Labour	Conservative
Leader's seat	Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse	Kilmarnock North	Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse
Last election	14 seats, 39.21%	14 seats, 41.12%	3 seats, 12.80%
Seats before	14	15	3
Seats won	15	14	2
Seat change	1	1	1

The 9 multi-member wards

Council Leader before election

Douglas Reid
SNP

Council Leader after election

TBC

Elections to East Ayrshire Council are to be held on 3 May 2012, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. The election is the second using 9 new wards created as a results of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation. The new wards replaced 32 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

Election result

East Ayrshire Local Election Result 2012
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	SNP	15	1	0	+1	46.88
	Labour	14	1	1	±0	43.75
	Conservative	2	0	1	-1	6.25
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	±0	0.00
	Independent	1	1	1	±0	3.13

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Seats changing hands

Seat	2007			2012
Seat	Party		Member	Party		Member
Annick		Conservative	Rose-Ann Cunninghame		Independent	Ellen Freel
Ballochmyle		Labour	Jimmy Kelly		SNP	Stephanie Primrose
Doon Valley		Independent	Jim Sutherland		Labour	Elaine Dinwoodie

Ward summary

Results of the East Ayrshire Council election, 2012
by ward
Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
Ward	SNP		Labour		Conservative		Lib Dem		Independents		Total Cllrs
Annick		1		1		0		0		1	3
Kilmarnock North		2		1		0	-	-	-	-	3
Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse		2		1		1	-	-		0	4
Kilmarnock East and Hurlford		2		2		0	-	-	-	-	4
Kilmarnock South		2		1		0	-	-	-	-	3
Irvine Valley		2		1		1	-	-			4
Ballochmyle		2		2		0	-	-	-	-	4
Cumnock and New Cumnock		1		3		0	-	-		0	4
Doon Valley		1		2		0	-	-		0	3
Total		15		14		2		0		1	32

Ward Results

Annick

2007: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon
2012: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xIndependent
2007-2012 Change: Independent gain one seat from Con

Annick (3 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	SNP	Eòghann MacColl	22.66%	947	957	1,327
	Labour	John McGhee (incumbent)	24.43%	1021	1,032	1,060
	Independent	Ellen Freel	19.38%	810	827	858	960	965	1,394
	Conservative	Rose-Ann Cunninghame (incumbent)	20.89%	873	886	907	941	943
	SNP	John MacKay (incumbent)	11.03%	461	465
	Liberal Democrats	Greg Foster	1.63%	68
	SNP gain from SNP		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
Electorate: Valid: 4,180 Spoilt: 57 (1.35%) Quota: 1,046 Turnout: 4,237(44.01%)

Kilmarnock North

2007: 2xSNP; 1xLab

2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab

Kilmarnock North (3 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	SNP	Helen Coffey (incumbent)	44.74%	1,475
	Labour	Maureen McKay (incumbent)	35.67%	1,176
	SNP	Andrew Hershaw†	7.98%	263	817	921
	Conservative	Ian Grant	11.62%	383	417	476
	SNP hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	SNP hold		Swing
Electorate: Valid: 3,297 Spoilt: 40 (1.20%) Quota: 825 Turnout: 3,337 (35.36%)

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse

2007: 2xSNP, 1xLab, 1xCon

2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse (4 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	SNP	Iain Linton (incumbent)	24.27%	1,210
	SNP	Douglas Reid (incumbent)	20.70%	1,032
	Labour	Lillian Jones	20.56%	1,025
	Conservative	Tom Cook (incumbent)	16.61%	828	864	869	870	980	1,171
	Labour	Dave Meechan	10.35%	516	554	559	582	709
	Independent	Andi McCann	7.52%	375	417	423	424
	SNP hold		Swing
	SNP hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
Electorate: Valid: 4,986 Spoilt: 136 (2.66%) Quota: 998 Turnout: 5,122(40.87%)

Kilmarnock East and Hurlford

2007: 2xSNP; 2xLab

2012: 2xSNP; 2xLab

Kilmarnock East and Hurlford (4 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1
	SNP	John Campbell (incumbent)	25.39	1,126
	Labour	Gordon Cree (incumbent)	23.77	1,054
	Labour	Drew McIntyre (incumbent)	22.19	984
	SNP	James Buchanan (incumbent)	21.29	944
	Conservative	Rob Murray	7.35	326
Electorate: Valid: 4,434 Spoilt: 142 (3.10%) Quota: 887 Turnout: 4,576 (39.2%)

Kilmarnock South

2007: 2xSNP; 1xLab
2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab
2007-2012: No change

Kilmarnock South (3 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Labour	John Knapp (incumbent)	37.56	1,250
	SNP	Jim Todd (incumbent)	23.76	791	814.4	822.7	949.7
	SNP	Hugh Ross (incumbent)	22.08	735	759.4	789.4	924.4
	Labour	Ronnie Scott	12.53	417	743.9	785.9
	Conservative	Alyson Holden	4.06	135	138.7
Electorate: Valid: 3,328 Spoilt: 93 (%) Quota: 833 Turnout: 3,421 (%)

Irvine Valley

2007: 2xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon
2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon
2007-2012 Change: No change

Irvine Valley (4 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Labour	George Mair	29.71	1,423
	SNP	Alan Brown (incumbent)	26.14	1,252
	Conservative	John McFadzean	17.89	857	896	940.3	942.9	1,188.3
	SNP	Bobby McDill (incumbent)	17.68	847	961.1
	Independent	May Anderson	7.08	339	451.4	541.9	547.1
Electorate: Valid: 4,718 Spoilt: 72 (%) Quota: 944 Turnout: 4,790 (%)

Ballochmyle

2007: 3xLab; 1xSNP
2012: 2xLab; 2xSNP
2007-2012 Change: SNP gain one seat from Lab

Ballochmyle (4 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	SNP	Jim Roberts (incumbent)	25.35	1,109
	Labour	Neil McGhee (incumbent)	23.27	1,018
	Labour	David Shaw (incumbent)	18.52	810	827.8	857
	Labour	Neil Murray	11.34	496	510.1	622.3	628.4	704.7
	SNP	Stephanie Primrose	10.56	462	665.7	670.5	671	735.6	869.7
	Conservative	Nick Martin	7.96	348	352.5	353.8	354
Electorate: Valid: 4,243 Spoilt: 131 (%) Quota: 849 Turnout: 4,374 (%)

Cumnock/New Cumnock

2007: 3xLab; 1xSNP
2012: 3xLab; 1xSNP
2007-2012 Change: No change

Cumnock and New Cumnock (4 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Labour	Eric Ross (incumbent)	23.82	987
	SNP	Kathy Morrice (incumbent)	21.57	894
	Labour	Barney Menzies (incumbent)	19.52	809	892.9
	Labour	Billy Crawford (incumbent)	14.77	612	672.6	677.3	741.3	744.2	763	800	945.5
	Independent	Ian Allan	7.43	308	310.3	311.3	314.5	352.9	409.6	475.9
	Conservative	James Boswell	4.97	206	208.8	209.9	210.9	215.2
	SNP	Craig Murray	4.34	180	185.7	253.1	255.9	258.1	286.6
	Independent	David Fraser	1.42	59	62	63.3	64.8
Electorate: Valid: 4,055 Spoilt: 89 (%) Quota: 812 Turnout: 4,144 (%)

Doon Valley

2007: 1xLab; 1xSNP; 1xInd
2009 by-election: 2xLab; 1xSNP
2012: 2xLab; 1xSNP
2007-2012 Change: Lab gain one seat from Independent

Doon Valley (3 members)
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Labour	Elaine Dinwoodie (incumbent)	33.12	1,171
	SNP	John Bell	22.34	790	812.4	832.9	950.9
	Independent	Ian Borthwick	13.80	488	501.7	540.9	680	708
	Independent	Drew Filson (incumbent)	12.08	427	465.4	491.2
	Labour	Moira Pirie (incumbent)	11.91	421	590.4	613.9	719	734.6	984.9
	Conservative	Irene Grant	5.03	178	181.9
Electorate: Valid: 3,475 Spoilt: 61 (%) Quota: 869 Turnout: 3,536 (%)

Post Election Changes

† Kilmarnock North SNP Cllr Andrew Kershaw died on 31 December 2013. A by-election was held on 27 March 2014 and his seat was held by Elaine Cowan of the SNP.

By-elections since 2012

Kilmarnock North By-election (27 March 2014) - 1 Seat^[1]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	SNP	Elaine Cowan	44.2	1,334	1,358	1,473	2,042
	Labour	Scott Thomson	37.4	1,130	1,147	1,320
	Conservative	Ian Grant	16.3	493	501
	Scottish Green	Robin Tatler	2.0	61

References

↑ http://www.scottishelections.org.uk/scotland/lby/kilmarnocknorth.php

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