Mearns (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

The Mearns is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.

It takes its name from the Mearns, an old name for the former Kincardineshire (from the Scottish Gaelic A' Mhaoirne meaning "the Stewartry").

Election
2007	Bill Howatson (Liberal Democrats)		Tom Fleming (Liberal Democrats)		George Carr (Conservative)	Jean Dick (SNP)
2012		Dave Stuart (Independent)				Jean Dick (SNP)
2017		Jeff Hutchison (Conservative)	Leigh Wilson (SNP/ Independent/ Alba)^[2]^[3]
2020
2021
2022	Alison Evison (Independent)	Laurie Carnie (Conservative)		Kevin Stelfox (SNP)
2024	Alison Evison (Independent)	Laurie Carnie (Conservative)	Tracey Smith (Conservative)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Conservative	Tracey Smith	39.2	1,347	1,350	1,494	1,768
	SNP	Hannah Scott	24.0	823	891	928	1,181
	Liberal Democrats	Isobel Knights	21.7	745	788	851
	Reform UK	Claudia Leith	10.9	375	384
	Scottish Green	William Linegar	4.0	136
Electorate: 12,414 Valid: 3,435 Quota: 1,718 Turnout: 27.8%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	SNP	Kevin Stelfox	29.0	1,677
	Conservative	George Carr (incumbent)	21.0	1,217
	Independent	Alison Elizabeth McBean Evison^{[note 1]}	10.8	623	663	667	674	699	730	792	894	1,111	1,349
	Conservative	Laurie Carnie	10.7	619	625	668	681	689	695	724	741	825	924
	Independent	Dave Stewart	8.9	513	546	550	558	573	592	622	672
	Liberal Democrats	Shona Ewen	6.5	377	413	415	418	422	430	561	680	789
	Labour	Yvonne Allan	5.8	336	392	393	396	399	412
	Scottish Green	Douglas Fraser	3.4	194	375	376	380	398	447	506
	Alba	Leigh Wilson (incumbent)	1.7	99	171	171	179	186
	Independent	David Allan Neill	1.3	75	86	86	87
	Scottish Family	Diane Elizabeth Laurenson	0.9	52	56	56
Electorate: 12,170 Valid: 5,782 Spoilt: 57 Quota: 1,157 Turnout: 47.7%

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	George Carr (incumbent)	36.19	2,034
	SNP	Leigh Wilson	16.03	901	914.41	935.75	936.02	997.27	1,045.19	1,735.42
	SNP	Carole Wise	12.46	700	705.36	715.36	715.57	751.47	815.73
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Howatson (incumbent)	10.66	599	701.79	767.94	772.58	863.53	1,100.31	1,145.13
	Independent	Dave Stewart (incumbent)	8.4	472	517.14	546.48	549.66	596.82
	Conservative	Jeff Hutchison	8.2	461	1,116.16	1,141.52
	Scottish Green	Karen Allan	4.15	233	248.19	284.09	284.94
	Labour	Patrick Coffield	3.91	220	237.43
Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,620 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,125 Turnout: 5,690 (48.3%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	George Carr (incumbent)	20.73%	868
	SNP	Jean Dick (incumbent)	20.70%	867
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Howatson (incumbent)	20.03%	839
	SNP	Robert Forbes	10.91%	457	458.3	482.2	482.4	564.1	595.9
	Independent	Dave Stewart	10.29%	431	433.2	434.5	434.7	530.9	684.8	890.5
	Conservative	David Nelson	8.93%	374	394.1	395.1	395.3	423.8
	Labour	Gill Bayfield	8.40%	352	353.2	354.5	354.7
Electorate: 10,963 Valid: 4,188 Spoilt: 35 Quota: 838 Turnout: 4,223 (38.20%)

Election results

Mearns
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Jean Dick	23.0	1,262
	Conservative	George Carr	20.5	1,123
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Fleming	16.6	909	940	945	1,046	1,144
	Liberal Democrats	Bill Howatson	13.8	759	775	778	815	850	879	1,021	1,291
	Labour	Gill Bayfield	7.1	392	406	407	442	455	459
	Independent	David Nelson	7.1	391	404	407	432	596	601	659
	Independent	Robert Gairn Davidson	6.2	342	355	358	403
	Scottish Green	Kate Anderson	5.6	306	336	338
Electorate: Valid: 5,484 Spoilt: 48 Quota: 1,097 Turnout: 53.28%