2022 Inverclyde Council election

2022 Inverclyde Council election
← 2017 5 May 2022 2027 →
All 22 seats to Inverclyde Council; 12 seats needed for a majority
Council Leader before election; Stephen McCabe; Labour	Council Leader after election ; Stephen McCabe; Labour

The 2022 Inverclyde Council election took place on 5 May 2022,^[1] as part of the 2022 Scottish local elections on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local authorities were up for election. The election used the 7 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, last changed in 2017, with 22 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.^[2]

At the previous election in 2017, the Labour Party won the most seats and formed a minority administration. The same happened at this election in 2022, with Stephen McCabe continuing as leader of the council after the election.

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Ward		Retiring councillor
Inverclyde West	Independent	Ronald Ahlfeld
Inverclyde North	Labour	Martin Brennan
Inverclyde South West	Labour	Gerry Dorrian
Inverclyde South West	Liberal Democrats	Ciano Rebecchi

	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	9	1	0	1	40.9	32.5	7,491	5.6
SNP	8	1	0	1	36.4	37.7	8,694	4.9
Independent	3	0	1	1	13.6	15.0	3,455	1.7
Conservative	2	0	0		9.0	10.3	2,372	7.3
Liberal Democrats	0	0	1	1	0.0	3.2	734	2.7
Alba	0	0	0		0.0	1.5	342	New

	Candidate	Votes
SNP	Christopher Curley (incumbent)	Unopposed
Labour	Stephen McCabe (incumbent)	Unopposed
Conservative	David Wilson (incumbent)	Unopposed

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Robert Moran (incumbent)	31.5	1,016
	SNP	Kirsty Law	22.3	720	738.51	747.75	761.36	1,301.91
	SNP	Jim MacLeod (incumbent)	19.6	633	657.48	669.92	682.56
	Independent	Drew McKenzie (incumbent)	16.8	543	603.48	615.18	718.08	843.69
	Conservative	James Kelly	8.6	277	296.95	300.46
	Alba	Louise Williams	1.2	38	45.82
Electorate: 8,065 Valid: 3,227 Spoilt: 69 Quota: 807 Turnout: 40.9%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Pam Armstrong	34.2	968
	Labour	Michael McCormick (incumbent)	26.6	753
	Labour	Colin Jackson (incumbent)	21.2	599	617.26	651.09	675.42	782.88
	SNP	Agnes McAuley	8.2	231	450.44	452.03	509.05	516.11
	Conservative	Ian Bryson	6.0	169	170.07	171.09	176.36
	Alba	Jim McEleny (incumbent)	3.8	108	115.79	117.82
Electorate: 7,787 Valid: 2,828 Spoilt: 108 Quota: 708 Turnout: 2,936 (37.7%)

2022 Inverclyde Council election

Retiring councillors

Results

Inverclyde East

Inverclyde East Central

Inverclyde Central

Inverclyde North

Inverclyde West

Inverclyde South West

Inverclyde South

Aftermath

Inverclyde West by-election

References

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Inverclyde North - 4 seats ^[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Francesca Brennan	25.5	1,284
	SNP	Elizabeth Robertson (incumbent)	22.3	1,122
	Conservative	Graeme Brooks (incumbent)	15.1	761	787.77	789.08	791.4	800.40	886.52	995.77	1,018
	SNP	Jenn Scott-McClafferty	12.0	606	615.64	713.63	738.14	744.36	766.40	826.21
	Labour	Jim Clocherty (incumbent)	10.4	526	716.4	719.52	728.94	733.46	799.36	862.95	1,138.36
	Liberal Democrats	Jacci Stoyle	6.2	312	323.34	325.06	330.06	336.92
	Independent	Gillian Maxwell	5.7	285	295.92	298.94	309.57	347.98
	Independent	John Davidson *	1.5	75	77.1	78.51	85.82
	Alba	Philomena Donnachie	1.4	70	71.5	73.32	74.3
Electorate: 10,353 Valid: 5,041 Spoilt: 128 Quota: 1,009 Turnout: 5,169 (49.9%)

Inverclyde West - 3 seats ^[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Independent	Lynne Quinn (incumbent)	30.2	1,440
	SNP	Sandra Reynolds	26.6	1,271
	Labour	Martin McCluskey	26.1	1,247
	Conservative	Ted Runciman	9.5	453
	Liberal Democrats	John Burleigh	3.6	171
	Alba	Christopher McEleny (incumbent)	2.6	126
	Independent	William Wilson	1.4	66
Electorate: 8,773 Valid: 4,774 Quota: 1,194 Turnout: 4,804 (54.8%)

Inverclyde South West - 3 seats ^[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	James Daisley	29.7	1,206
	Labour	Paul Cassidy	28.9	1,175
	SNP	Innes Nelson (incumbent)	14.9	606	755.66	774.88	815.79	925.97	1,057.69
	Conservative	Lisa Dallas	12.5	507	510.15	540.6	632.83	727.67
	Independent	Paul Travers	7.8	316	326.56	343.87	411.97
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Higgins	6.2	251	259.82	306.77
Electorate: 9,531 Valid: 4,061 Spoilt: 59 Quota: 1,016 Turnout: 4,120 (43.2%.)

Inverclyde South - 3 seats ^[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	SNP	John Crowther (incumbent)	30.8	972
	Labour	Natasha McGuire (incumbent, (elected in 2017 as Natasha Murphy))	28.2	891
	Independent	Tommy McVey (incumbent)	23.1	730	743.12	777.91	915.99
	SNP	Irene McLeod	11.4	359	506.55	521.51	528.05
	Conservative	Georgina Halfnight	6.5	205	207.25	220.06
Electorate: 7,877 Valid: 3,157 Spoilt: 62 Quota: 790 Turnout: 3,219 (40.9%)