East Sutherland and Edderton (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

East Sutherland and Edderton is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the towns and villages of Brora, Dornoch, Edderton, Golspie and Helmsdale. It elects three Councillors.

Election
2007	Jim McGillivray (Ind.)		Deirdre Mackay (Labour)	Ian Ross (Liberal Democrats)
2012		Graham Phillips (SNP)
2017		Richard Gale (Liberal Democrats)
2022		Richard Gale (Liberal Democrats)	Leslie-anne Niven (SNP)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Gale (incumbent)	35.8	1,151
	SNP	Leslie-anne Niven	26.5	853
	Independent	Jim McGillivray (incumbent)	19.0	611	775	796	834
	Conservative	Max Bannerman	17.0	546	613	615	635
	Scottish Libertarian	Harry Christian	1.6	53	80	84
Electorate: 6,446 Valid: 3,214 Spoilt: 39 Quota: 804 Turnout: 50.5%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Deirdre MacKay (incumbent)	21.20%	755	757	831	946
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Gale	19.63%	699	715	773	889	909
	Independent	Jim McGillivray (incumbent)	16.76%	597	600	649	793	806	814	1,155
	SNP	Graham Phillips (incumbent)	18.20%	648	653	711	725	732	735
	Conservative	Eva Short	14.52%	517	518	532
	No Label	George Gunn	8.68%	309	311
	Scottish Libertarian	Harry Christian	1.01%	36
Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,561 Spoilt: 30 Quota: 891 Turnout: 57.1%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Deirdre MacKay (incumbent)	32.21%	966
	Independent	Jim McGillivray (incumbent)	19.27%	578	622	642.9	691.2	811
	SNP	Graham Phillips	17.34%	520	544.6	548	554.7	605.8	618.1	771.7
	Independent	Richard Gale	12.74%	382	424.5	442.8	485.3	567.8	585.7
	Liberal Democrats	Robbie Rowantree *	9.67%	290	334.5	340.1	402.1
	Conservative	Kerensa Carr	6.27%	188	198.5	220.6
	UKIP	Annie Murray	2.5%	75	81.9
Electorate: 6,179 Valid: 2,999 Spoilt: 36 Quota: 750 Turnout: 3,034 (49.1%)

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Liberal Democrats	Ian Ross	838	22.8	1	7
Labour	Deirdre Mackay	703	19.2	2	10
SNP	Derek Louden	511	13.9
Independent	Jim McGillivray	482	13.1	3	10
Conservative	Michael Napper	423	11.5
Independent	Jimmy Melville	252	6.9
Independent	Evelyn MacKenzie	155	4.2
Independent	Gordon Campbell	125	3.4
Independent	Gordon Clunie	114	3.1
Independent	Richard Easson	40	1.1
Solidarity	Frank Ward	27	0.7

Election results