Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone (ward)
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| Dyce/Buckburn/Danestone | |
|---|---|
| ward Aberdeen City Council | |
 Boundary of Dyce/Buckburn/Danestone in Aberdeen from 2017. | |
| Lieutenancy area | Aberdeen |
| Electorate | 15,278 |
| Current ward | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Councillor | Neil MacGregor (SNP) |
| Councillor | Gill Samarai (SNP) |
| Councillor | Barney Crockett (Labour) |
| Councillor | Graeme Lawrence (Labour) |
Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone is a ward represented in the Aberdeen City Council. As with all Scottish councils, the council elects its councillors by the Single transferable vote system of election every five years.
The ward elects four councillors.
Barney Crockett of the Labour Party, and Neil MacGregor and Gill Samarai, both of the Scottish National Party have been councillors in the ward since 2017,[note 1] whilst Graeme Lawrence of the Labour Party was elected in a by-election in 2023.
In the Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements, conducted by The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland, and published in 2006, the ward is described to contain the areas of Dyce, Aberdeen Airport and its surrounding area, Stoneywood, Bankhead, and Bucksburn.[1]
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Mark McDonald (SNP) |
Barney Crockett (Labour) |
Ron Clark (Liberal Democrats) |
George Penny (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2011 by-election |
Neil MacGregor (SNP) | |||||||
| 2012 | Gill Samarai (SNP) |
Graeme Lawrence (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Avril MacKenzie (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
| 2023 by-election |
Graeme Lawrence (Labour) | |||||||