2007 East Lothian Council election

2007 East Lothian Council election
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All 23 seats to East Lothian Council; 12 seats needed for a majority
	The multi-member wards
Council Leader before election; ; Labour	Council Leader after election ; Paul Stewart McLennan; SNP

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The election was the first using seven new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system of proportional representation. The wards replaced 23 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

The Labour majority administration was replaced by a coalition between the SNP and Liberal Democrats, led by the SNP's Paul Stewart McLennan.

	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	7	N\A	N\A	-9	30.4	32.6	13,514
SNP	7	N\A	N\A	+6	30.4	26.9	11,157
Liberal Democrats	6	N\A	N\A	+5	26.1	15.4	6,391
Conservative	2	N\A	N\A	-2	8.7	17.4	7,209
Green	0	N\A	N\A	0	0.0	1.6	674
Solidarity	0	N\A	N\A	0	0.0	0.5	221
Scottish Senior Citizens	0	N\A	N\A	0	0.0	0.2	75
Independent	1	N\A	N\A	0	4.3	5.3	2,200

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
SNP	John Williamson	1,427	30.7	1	1
Labour	John McNeil	1,144	24.6	2	2
Liberal Democrats	Barry Turner	857	18.4	3	5
Labour	John Ross	572	12.3
Conservative	Robert Fairnie	499	10.7
Solidarity	Jack Fraser	153	3.3

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
SNP	Roger Knox	1,256	25.1	1	1
Labour	Andy Forrest	1,057	21.1	2	5
Independent	John Caldwell	937	18.7	3	6
Liberal Democrats	Jenny Mollison	809	16.2
Labour	Pat O'Donnell	585	11.7
Conservative	Ian Robertson	281	5.6
Scottish Senior Citizens	Alan Eeles	75	1.5

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Labour	Willie Innes	2,205	30.5	1	1
SNP	Peter MacKenzie	1,906	26.4	2	1
Conservative	Michael Veitch	1,040	14.4
Labour	Margaret Libberton	927	12.8	3	3
Liberal Democrats	Stuart Currie†	909	12.6	4	5
Independent	Andy Spence	244	3.4

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
SNP	Kenny McLeod	2,065	30.4	1	1
Labour	Jim Gillies	1,348	19.8	2	2
Labour	Donald Grant	1,118	16.4	4	4
Liberal Democrats	Ruth Currie††	892	13.1	3	4
Labour	Robert McNeill	835	12.3
Conservative	Henry Murray-Smith	540	7.9

Election results

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Conservative	Neil Rankin	1,837	29.7	1	1
SNP	David Berry	1,670	27.0	2	1
Labour	Pat Hanson	980	15.8
Liberal Democrats	Stuart MacKinnon	747	12.1	3	5
Conservative	Kathryn Smith	565	9.1
Green	Susan Moffat	393	6.3

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Conservative	Ludovic Broun-Lindsay	1,317	22.6	1	4
SNP	Tom Trotter	1,107	19.0	3	4
Liberal Democrats	Sheena Richardson	1,041	17.9	2	4
Independent	Charles Ingle	1,019	17.5
Labour	Ann McCarthy	985	16.9
Green	Eurig Scandrett	281	4.8
Solidarity	Gary Galbraith	68	1.2

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
SNP	Paul McLennan	1,726	30.0	1	1
Liberal Democrats	Jacquie Bell	1,136	19.8	3	3
Conservative	Katie Mackie	1,130	19.7
Labour	Norman Hampshire	1,033	18.0	2	3
Labour	Herbert Coutts	725	12.6