Leaderdale and Melrose (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Leaderdale and Melrose is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Scottish Borders Council. It elects three Councillors.

Election	Councillors
2007		David Parker (Ind.)		Nicholas Watson (Borders Party)	John Paton-Day (Liberal Democrats)
2012			Jim Torrance (SNP)	Nicholas Watson (Borders Party)
2013			Jim Torrance (SNP)	Ian Gillespie (Ind.)
2017			Tom Miers (Conservative)	Kevin Drum (SNP)
2022	Jenny Linehan (Conservative)		John Paton-Day (SNP)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	David Parker (incumbent)	34.3	1,594
	Conservative	Jenny Linehan	24.4	1,133	1,241.4
	SNP	John Paton-Day	19.7	918	1,003.4	1,004.4	1,006.2	284.3	1,180.1
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Johnson	12.7	589	686.9	718.7	724.4	791.8	905.9
	Labour	Michael Scott	4.5	207	240.3	247.0	250.2	284.3
	Green	Michael Needham	4.3	199	227.7	229.4	231.4
	Vanguard	Chris Stefanek	0.2	10	14.6	16.8
Electorate: 9,107 Valid: 4,650 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 1,163 Turnout: 51.5%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	David Parker (incumbent)	25.2%	1,149
	Conservative	Tom Miers	20.5%	934	934.9	950.9	1,014	1,476.5
	SNP	Kevin Drum	17.8%	811	812.4	832.5	903.7	910.8	915.5	1,105.3
	Independent	Iain Gillespie (incumbent)	11.2%	510	513.3	585.7	720.2	744.4	871.1
	Conservative	Diana Findlay	11.5%	523	523.6	543.7	529.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Paton-Day	9.4%	426	427.5	473.6
	Independent	Rebecca Fraser	4.4%	202	202.7
Electorate: 8,673 (Est.) Valid: 4,555 Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,139 Turnout: 4,633 (53.4%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Rachael Hamilton	27.57	956	975	982	1,038	1,283
	Borders	Iain Gillespie	23.48	814	844	900	1,118	1,444	2,066
	Liberal Democrats	John Paton-Day	21.46	744	756	816	983
	SNP	Harry Cummings	17.68	613	623	666
	Labour	Robin Tatler	6.78	235	238
	UKIP	Sherry Fowler	3.03	105
Electorate: 8,386 Valid: 3,467 Spoilt: 20 Quota: 1,734 Turnout: 3,487 (41.58%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	David Parker (incumbent)	36.34	1,304
	Borders	Nicholas Watson (incumbent)†	17.31	621	705.9	758.9	929.6
	SNP	Jim Torrance††††	15.55	558	632.4	706.8	742.6	747.6	969.6
	Conservative	Peter Duncan	12.29	441	488.3	500.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Paton-Day (incumbent)	12.24	439	527.1	568.3	715.8	726.8
	Labour	Agnes Craig	6.27	225	258.6
Electorate: 8,292 Valid: 3,588 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 898 Turnout: 3,609 (43.27%)

Election results

	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Independent	David Parker	1,362	29.9	1	1
Conservative	John Greenwell	713	15.6
Liberal Democrats	John Paton-Day	703	15.3	2	5
Borders Party	Nicholas Watson	692	15.1	3	5
SNP	Frank McCann	640	14.0
Independent	Harry Cummings	394	8.6
Independent	John Rae	78	1.7