City of Edinburgh Council elections

City of Edinburgh Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007.

Year
Year	SNP	Labour	Liberal^[a]	Conservative	Independent
1974	1	29	3	30	1
1977	5	23	1	34	1
1980^[b]	2	25	2	31	2^[c]
1984	2	34	4	22	0
1988	2	33	4	23	0
1992	2	30	7	23	0

Year
Year	SNP	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Green	Conservative
1995	0	34	10	0	14
1999^[a]	1	31	13	0	13
2003	0	30	15	0	13
2007^[b]	12	15	17	3	11
2012	18	20	3	6	11
2017^[c]	19	12	6	8	18
2022	19	13	12	10	9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth O'Malley^[5]	883	43.1	−15.6
	Conservative		743	36.3	+17.1
	Green		185	9.0	+9.0
	Labour		141	6.9	−5.1
	SNP		95	4.6	−2.0
Majority			140	6.8
Turnout			2,047
	Liberal Democrats hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jason Rust^[7]	1,830	46.0	−16.7
	Liberal Democrats		1,680	42.2	+30.4
	Labour		289	7.3	−8.3
	SNP		145	3.6	−6.3
	Scottish Socialist		38	1.0	+1.0
Majority			150	3.8
Turnout			3,982
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jeremy Balfour	1,327	50.0	−0.4
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Crockart	859	32.4	+10.5
	Independent	Kristina Woolnough	226	8.5	+8.5
	Labour	Norma Hart	114	4.3	−12.0
	Green	Jill Boulton	58	2.2	+2.2
	SNP	Sheena Cleland	52	2.0	−5.7
	Liberal	Roy Isserlis	12	0.5	+0.5
	UKIP	Melville Brown	4	0.2	+0.2
Majority			468	17.6
Turnout			2,652
	Conservative hold

City of Edinburgh Council elections

As a district council

As a unitary authority

Results maps

By-elections

2003-2007

2007-2012

2012-2017

2017-2022

2022-2027

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Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Cammy Day	29.53	2,013	2,014	2,023	2,042	2,134	2,228	2,543	2,810	3,735
	SNP	George Gordon	27.01	1,841	1,843	1,849	1,861	1,920	2,005	2,259	2,529
	Conservative	Iain McGill	17.31	1,180	1,184	1,187	1,188	1,199	1,225	1,453
	Liberal Democrats	Sanne C Djikstra-Downie	14.45	985	987	989	995	1,033	1,155
	Green	Kate Joester	5.06	341	343	360	373	410
	Independent	John Loughton	4.36	297	303	307	323
	Solidarity	Willie Black	1.17	80	80	84
	Scottish Socialist	Robert Richard	1.0	53	54
	Independent	James G MacLean	0.1	26
	Labour hold
Valid: 6,816 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 3,409 Turnout: 6,886

v t e Elections in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Corporation	1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 Abolished
City of Edinburgh District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992 Abolished
Lothian Regional Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 Abolished
City of Edinburgh Council	1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017 2022
Referendums	2005

Liberton/Gilmerton By-Election 9 September 2010^[10]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Bill Cook	44.8	2,974				3,121	3,308
	SNP	Richard Lewis	20.8	1,382				1,484	1,698
	Conservative	Stephanie Murray	15.4	1,020				1,055	1,262
	Liberal Democrats	John Christopher Knox	10.9	722				816
	Green	Peter McColl	3.0	201
	Scottish Socialist	Colin Fox	2.5	169
	Independent	Mev Brown	1.9	128
	Pirate	Philip Hunt	0.6	43
	Labour hold
Valid: 6,639 Spoilt: 65 Quota: 3,320 Turnout: 6,704

City Centre By-Election 18 August 2011^[11]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Alasdair Rankin	23.1	797	825	893	1,081	1,368
	Conservative	Iain McGill	24.2	837	904	1,043	1,110	1,264
	Labour	Karen Doran	19.7	682	716	745	968
	Green	Melanie Main	14.3	494	576	635
	Independent	John Carson	11.4	394	402
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Hodgson	7.3	251
	SNP hold
Valid: 3,455 Spoilt: 11 Quota: 1,728 Turnout: 3,466

Liberton/Gilmerton By-Election 20 June 2013^[12]^[13]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Keith John Robson	39.5	2,892	2,896	2,906	2,941	3,070	3,255	3,448
	SNP	Derek Howie	30.7	2,249	2,251	2,256	2,287	2,403	2,523	2,633
	Conservative	Stephanie Murray	11.2	823	824	836	903	934	1,098
	Liberal Democrats	John Christopher Knox	8.3	605	611	616	625	708
	Green	Alys Mumford	5.6	412	430	440	471
	UKIP	Jonathan Stanley	3.2	235	239	251
	Independent	John Scott	0.9	64	70
	Pirate	Phil Hunt	0.6	47
	Labour gain from SNP
Valid: 7,246 Spoilt: 81 Quota: 3,664 Turnout: 7,327

Leith Walk By-Election 10 September 2015^[14]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	SNP	John Ritchie	36.2	2,290
	Labour	Marion Donaldson	25.7	1,623	1,650.1	1,653.1	1,659.6	1,661.7	1,680.4	1,697.6	1,798.2	1,990.2	2,717.3
	Green	Susan Rae	21.8	1,381	1,464.6	1,469.8	1,483.4	1,495.3	1,502.7	1,576.1	1,653.3	1,729.9
	Conservative	Gordon Murdie	7.9	501	503.8	505.8	506.9	507.0	540.2	541.2	574.6
	Liberal Democrats	Mo Hussain	4.0	255	261.6	263.0	265.3	265.3	267.4	271.6
	UKIP	Alan Melville	1.6	102	105.6	105.6	106.8	106.8
	Scottish Socialist	Natalie Reid	1.5	97	107.7	107.7	108.2	122.0	125.2
	Left Unity	Bruce Whitehead	0.5	32	33.6	33.7	33.9
	Independent	John Scott	0.4	26	29.0	30.0
	Scottish Libertarian	Tom Laird	0.3	17	17.9
	SNP hold
	Labour gain from Green
Valid: 6,324 Spoilt: 83 Quota: 2,109 Turnout: 6,407