2022 East Renfrewshire Council election
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5 May 2022
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The 2022 East Renfrewshire Council election took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election used the 5 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 18 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.[3]
Composition
| Party | 2017 result | Dissolution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | 5 | 5 | |
| Labour | 4 | 4 | |
| Conservative | 7 | 5 | |
| Independent | 2 | 4 |
Changes since 2017
Barrhead, Liboside & Uplawmoor Conservative Cllr Paul Aitken resigned from the Scottish Conservatives and became an Independent on 22 January 2018.[4]
Clarkston, Netherlee & Williamwood Conservative Cllr Stewart Miller resigned from the Scottish Conservatives and became an Independent on 10 September 2020.[5]
Results
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | 6 | 1 | 0 |  1 |
33.3 | 28.6 | 11,249 | 4.3 | |
| Conservative | 5 | 0 | 2 |  2 |
27.8 | 29.5 | 11,599 | 8.8 | |
| Labour | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
27.8 | 20.2 | 7,973 | 2.8 | |
| Independent | 2 | 0 | 0 |  |
11.1 | 14.1 | 5,571 | 4.9 | |
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 5.4 | 2,111 | 4.0 | |
| Alba | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 0.9 | 341 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 0.5 | 203 | 1.7 | |
| Scottish Family | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 0.5 | 203 | New | |
| Freedom Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 0.2 | 67 | New | |
| ISP | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
0.0 | 0.1 | 57 | New | |
Source:
Note: Votes are the sum of first preference votes across all council wards. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 4 May 2017. This is because STV has an element of proportionality which is not present unless multiple seats are being elected. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at the dissolution of Scotland's councils.[6][7]
Ward summary
| Ward | % |
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% |
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Total Cllrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Labour | Conservative | Independent | Others | |||||||
| Barrhead, Liboside and Uplawmoor | 33.4 | 2 | 20.1 | 1 | 10.7 | 0 | 31.1 | 1 | 4.5 | 0 | 4 |
| Newton Mearns North and Neilston | 32.1 | 1 | 25.4 | 1 | 34.5 | 1 | 8.0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Giffnock and Thornliebank | 26.1 | 1 | 22.2 | 1 | 25.1 | 1 | 19.9 | 0 | 6.7 | 0 | 3 |
| Clarkston, Netherlee and Williamwood | 29.0 | 1 | 16.8 | 1 | 23.5 | 1 | 20.7 | 1 | 10.0 | 0 | 4 |
| Newton Mearns South & Eaglesham | 24.3 | 1 | 19.1 | 1 | 48.9 | 2 | 7.8 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Total | 28.5 | 6 | 20.2 | 5 | 29.5 | 5 | 14.1 | 2 | 7.6 | 0 | 18 |
