Perth and Kinross Council elections
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Local government elections in Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Perth and Kinross Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007.
As a district council
| Year | SNP | Conservative | Liberal[a] | Labour | Independent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 1977 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 1980 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| 1984[b] | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| 1988 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| 1992 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
- ↑ SDP–Liberal Alliance in 1984, Liberal Democrats from 1988 onwards.
- ↑ New ward boundaries.[1]
As a unitary authority
| Year | SNP | Conservative | Liberal Democrats | Labour | Perth Independent Candidates Party | Independent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999[a] | 15 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007[b] | 18 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017[c] | 15 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Results maps
2017 results map
By-elections
2007-2012
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Katie Howie | 59.9 | 1,891 | |
| Conservative | Graham Rees | 29.8 | 940 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Kenton | 7.3 | 229 | |
| Labour | Anne Chatt | 3.1 | 97 | |
| SNP hold | ||||
| Valid: 3,157 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 1,579 Turnout: 3,178 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Tom Gray | 30.3 | 1,555 | 1,569 | 1,769 | 2,299 | 3,302 | |
| Conservative | John Blackie | 33.4 | 1,713 | 1,724 | 1,785 | 2,208 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Neil Gaunt | 20.3 | 1,042 | 1,057 | 1,321 | |||
| Labour | Alistair Munro | 14.7 | 754 | 762 | ||||
| Independent | Chris Rennie | 1.2 | 61 | |||||
| SNP hold | ||||||||
| Valid: 5,125 Spoilt: 54 Quota: 2,563.5 Turnout: 5,179 | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Mike Williamson | 54.4 | 1,449 | |
| Conservative | Graham Rees | 22.4 | 596 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Victor Clements | 12.1 | 321 | |
| Independent | William Leske | 10.1 | 269 | |
| Independent | Chris Rennie | 1.0 | 27 | |
| SNP hold | ||||
| Valid: 2,662 Spoilt: 23 Quota: 1,332 Turnout: 2,685 | ||||
2012-2017
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Andrew Parrott | 51.1 | 3,589 | |
| Conservative | Chris Ahern | 23.9 | 1,679 | |
| Labour | Lorna Redford | 13.4 | 939 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Philip Brown | 10.0 | 701 | |
| Independent | Ian Thomson | 1.7 | 119 | |
| SNP hold | ||||
| Valid: 7,027 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 3,515 Turnout: 7,131 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Conservative | Kathleen Baird | 48.5 | 1,651 | 1,681 | 1,720 | |
| SNP | Wilma Lumsden | 38.4 | 1,327 | 1,334 | 1,370 | |
| Labour | Dave MacKenzie | 6.3 | 219 | 228 | 280 | |
| Liberal Democrats | George Hayton | 4.5 | 157 | 163 | ||
| UKIP | Denise Baykal | 2.2 | 77 | |||
| Conservative gain from Independent | ||||||
| Valid: 3,431 Spoilt: 19 Quota: 1,716 Turnout: 3,450 | ||||||
2017-2022
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Audrey Coates | 31.2 | 1,734 | 1,738 | 1,744 | 1,762 | 2,381 | 2,863 | |
| SNP | Pauline Leitch | 32.1 | 1,780 | 1,781 | 1,813 | 1,883 | 2,227 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Liz Barrett | 28.8 | 1,597 | 1,601 | 1,627 | 1,733 | |||
| Labour | Tricia Duncan | 5.7 | 314 | 319 | 332 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Elspeth MacLachlan | 1.8 | 102 | 105 | 332 | ||||
| Independent | Denise Baykal | 0.5 | 25 | ||||||
| Conservative hold | |||||||||
| Valid: 5,552 Spoilt: 55 Quota: 2,777 Turnout: 5,607 | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | John Duff | 46.7 | 1,907 | 1,908 | 1,923 | 1,930 | 1,977 | 2,084 | |
| SNP | John Kellas | 35.9 | 1,466 | 1,467 | 1,472 | 1,509 | 1,594 | 1,712 | |
| Independent | Avril Taylor | 6.9 | 280 | 286 | 299 | 325 | 391 | ||
| Labour | Jayne Ramage | 5.8 | 239 | 240 | 256 | 280 | |||
| Scottish Green | Mary McDougall | 2.5 | 104 | 106 | 118 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Chris Rennie | 1.9 | 78 | 78 | |||||
| Independent | Denise Baykal | 0.3 | 12 | ||||||
| Conservative hold | |||||||||
| Valid: 4,086 Spoilt: 31 Quota: 2,044 Turnout: 4,117 | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Ian Massie | 61.0 | 1,406 | |
| Conservative | Aziz Rehman | 22.9 | 528 | |
| Labour | Nicola Ferry | 9.5 | 220 | |
| Liberal Democrats | James Graham | 3.9 | 91 | |
| Scottish Green | Paul Vallot | 2.6 | 60 | |
| SNP hold | ||||
| Valid: 2,305 Spoilt: 28 Quota: 1,153 Turnout: 2,333 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Liz Barrett | 31.6 | 1,823 | 1,824 | 1,851 | 1,925 | 2,749 | 3,571 | |
| SNP | Iain MacPherson | 32.9 | 1,898 | 1,900 | 1,960 | 2,017 | 2,110 | ||
| Conservative | Andy Chan | 29.4 | 1,698 | 1,705 | 1,713 | 1,729 | |||
| Labour | Tricia Duncan | 3.5 | 204 | 205 | 224 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Elspeth MacLachlan | 2.3 | 135 | 136 | |||||
| UKIP | Lynda Davis | 0.3 | 18 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats gain from SNP | |||||||||
| Valid: 5,776 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 2,889 Turnout: 5,827 | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Conservative | Frank Smith | 51.2 | 1,819 | |
| SNP | Michelle Frampton | 37.3 | 1,327 | |
| Labour | Craig Masson | 7.5 | 267 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Claire McLaren | 4.0 | 143 | |
| Conservative gain from SNP | ||||
| Valid: 3,556 Spoilt: 17 Quota: 1,779 Turnout: 3,573 | ||||
2022-2027
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Carol Mair | 44.7 | 917 | 946 | 961 | 1,015 | 1,058 | |
| Labour | Kirsten Nkwocha-Dyer | 15.3 | 313 | 331 | 358 | 374 | 409 | |
| Conservative | Aziz Rehman | 14.4 | 296 | 297 | 316 | 323 | 365 | |
| Reform UK | Sonia Davidson | 10.2 | 209 | 213 | 220 | 234 | ||
| Alba | Robert Reid | 6.5 | 133 | 139 | 145 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Tina Ng-a-Mann | 4.6 | 95 | 111 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Caitlin Ripley | 4.2 | 87 | |||||
| SNP gain from Labour | ||||||||
| Valid: 2,050 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 1,026 Turnout: 2,071 | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Watt | 30.0 | 978 | 1,006 | 1,035 | 1,213 | 1,509 | 2,110 | |
| Conservative | Amanda Runciman | 32.1 | 1,045 | 1,049 | 1,123 | 1,169 | 1,206 | ||
| SNP | Catherine Scott | 17.4 | 568 | 613 | 626 | 696 | |||
| Labour | Ken McCracken | 11.2 | 366 | 382 | 388 | ||||
| Reform UK | Ian Thomas | 6.0 | 194 | 198 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Nettie Sutherland | 3.3 | 107 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | |||||||||
| Valid: 3,258 Spoilt: 22 Quota: 1,630 Turnout: 3,280 | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
- ↑ "Third Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements - Perth and Kinross Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ↑ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements Final Recommendations - Perth and Kinross Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ↑ "Breakdown of results Ward 4 – Highland by-election" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Breakdown of results Ward 7 – Strathallan by-election" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Highland, 2011". Scottish Elections. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Perth & Kinross Council By Election 2015 Election Results Ward 12 - Perth City Centre" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "BY ELECTION 07-04-2016 Transfers Report Ward 9 - Almond and Earn" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Preference Summary Report". pkc.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ↑ "Ward 4 - Highland Transfers Report" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Ward 11 - Perth City North Transfers Report" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Ward 10 - Perth City South Transfers Report" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Ward 9 - Almond and Earn Transfers Report" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Ward 11 - Perth City North Transfers Report" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "Ward 7 - Strathallan Transfers Report" (PDF). Perth & Kinross Council. Retrieved 27 July 2025.