Portobello/Craigmillar (ward)
Electoral region for local council elections
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Portobello/Craigmillar is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council.[2] Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it elects four Councillors.
As its name suggests, the ward's territory is based around the communities of Craigmillar and Portobello in the east of the city's urban area up to the boundary with Musselburgh (East Lothian) and the coast on the Firth of Forth, also including the neighbourhoods of Bingham, Brunstane, Cleikimin, Eastfield, Greendykes, Joppa, Magdalene, Newcraighall and Niddrie. A minor boundary change in 2017 saw the addition of the western part of the Durham neighbourhood which, combined with housebuilding in the existing area (new and redeveloped), was sufficient to push the population over the threshold for a fourth councillor. In 2019, the ward had a population of 31,957.[3]
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Stephen I Hawkins (Liberal Democrats) |
Maureen Child (Labour) |
Michael A Bridgeman (SNP) |
3 seats | ||||
| 2012 | David Walker (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Mary Campbell (Greens) |
Kate Campbell (SNP) |
Callum Laidlaw (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022 | Alys Mumford (Greens) |
Jane Elizabeth Meagher (Labour) |
Tim Jones (Conservative) | |||||
| 2026 | Lorenzo Martinico (Greens) | |||||||
Election results
2026 by-election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Green | Lorenzo Martinico | 28.0 | 1,781 | 1,786 | 1,788 | 1,810 | 1,825 | 1,872 | 1,890 | 1,920 | 2,652 | 3,341 | |
| SNP | Silas MacGilvray | 24.1 | 1,531 | 1,533 | 1,537 | 1,555 | 1,567 | 1,609 | 1,631 | 1,681 | |||
| Labour | Jim Wyke | 22.2 | 1,413 | 1,416 | 1,417 | 1,421 | 1,431 | 1,568 | 1,733 | 1,848 | 2,188 | ||
| Reform | Andrew McLaughlin | 8.9 | 569 | 569 | 573 | 574 | 588 | 598 | 727 | ||||
| Conservative | Haris Young | 8.2 | 522 | 522 | 522 | 523 | 528 | 575 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Liss Owen | 5.7 | 365 | 365 | 366 | 372 | 372 | ||||||
| Scottish Family | Niel Deepnarain | 1.1 | 73 | 74 | 77 | 80 | |||||||
| Workers Party | Pete Gregson | 0.9 | 58 | 64 | 73 | ||||||||
| ADF | David Ballantine | 0.4 | 28 | 28 | |||||||||
| Communist | Peter Olech | 0.3 | 22 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 28,062 Valid: 6,362 Spoilt: 65 Quota: 3,182 Turnout: 22.9% | |||||||||||||
2022 election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | Kate Campbell (incumbent) | 30.7 | 3,438 | |||||||||
| Labour | Jane Elizabeth Meagher | 18.8 | 2,099 | 2,192 | 2,212 | 2,429 | ||||||
| Green | Alys Mumford | 16.2 | 1,808 | 1,998 | 2,007 | 2,037 | 2,039 | 2,169 | 2,349 | |||
| Conservative | Tim Jones | 15.3 | 1,712 | 1,729 | 1,743 | 1,776 | 1,777 | 1,869 | 1,986 | 1,990 | 2,290 | |
| SNP | Simon Clark Shedden | 6.7 | 744 | 1,534 | 1,574 | 1,593 | 1,593 | 1,616 | 1,710 | 1,770 | ||
| Labour | Heather Pugh | 5.2 | 578 | 597 | 607 | 629 | 638 | 774 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jill Reilly | 4.3 | 480 | 488 | 495 | 527 | 528 | |||||
| Independent | Andrew McDonald | 1.6 | 182 | 197 | 221 | |||||||
| Alba | Anne Todd | 1.3 | 142 | 149 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 26,118 Valid: 11,183 Spoilt: 243 Quota: 2,237 Turnout: 43.7% | ||||||||||||
2017 election
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[8]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Maureen Child (incumbent) | 22.80% | 2,378 | ||||||
| Conservative | Callum Laidlaw | 19.48% | 2,032 | 2,057 | 2,114 | ||||
| SNP | Kate Campbell | 16.96% | 1,769 | 1,785 | 1,799 | 1,800 | 1,906 | 3,355 | |
| Green | Mary Campbell | 15.10% | 1,575 | 1,621 | 1,702 | 1,705 | 1,950 | 2,073 | |
| SNP | Mike Bridgman (incumbent) | 15.60% | 1,627 | 1,640 | 1,652 | 1,653 | 1,749 | ||
| Labour | David Walker (incumbent) | 7.59% | 792 | 941 | 1,001 | 1,010 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Callum Leslie | 2.47% | 258 | 271 | |||||
| Electorate: 22,360 Valid: 10,431 Spoilt: 223 Quota: 2,087 Turnout: 10,654 (47.6%) | |||||||||
2012 election
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Maureen Child (incumbent) | 36.6 | 2,645 | ||||||||
| SNP | Michael A. Bridgeman (incumbent) | 20.4 | 1,477 | 1,559 | 1,565 | 1,607 | 1,649 | 2,381 | |||
| SNP | David Manson | 11.6 | 837 | 879 | 891 | 921 | 953 | ||||
| Labour | David Walker | 10.8 | 784 | 1,212 | 1,237 | 1,270 | 1,319 | 1,356 | 1,431 | 1,744 | |
| Green | Peter McColl | 8.5 | 615 | 723 | 768 | 825 | 974 | 1,059 | 1,203 | ||
| Conservative | Henry Christian | 7.2 | 523 | 549 | 574 | 601 | |||||
| Independent | Norrie Davies | 2.9 | 213 | 253 | 261 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Veart | 1.9 | 137 | 155 | |||||||
| Electorate: 17,603 Valid: 7,231 Spoilt: 169 (2.28%) Quota: 1,808 Turnout: 7,400 (42%) | |||||||||||
2007 election
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||||
| SNP | Michael A Bridgeman | 28.0 | 3,471 | ||||||||||||||
| Labour | Maureen Child | 21.9 | 2,076 | 2,125.94 | 2,125.94 | 2127.94 | 2,138.44 | 2,158.45 | 2,189.70 | 2,227.08 | 2,295.83 | 2,337.97 | |||||
| Conservative | Alison Miller | 11.0 | 1,041 | 1,057.31 | 1,058.69 | 1,058.69 | 1,061.44 | 1,068.82 | 1,072.45 | 1,089.45 | 1,102.83 | 1,156.59 | 1,157.08 | 1,202.78 | 1,262.92 | ||
| Labour | Lawrence Marshall | 8.9 | 849 | 857.91 | 857.91 | 858.91 | 862.28 | 867.79 | 880.42 | 900.42 | 935.80 | 958.30 | 967.58 | 1,100.53 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen I. Hawkins | 8.3 | 791 | 817.98 | 817.98 | 817.98 | 820.98 | 857.87 | 875.25 | 910.76 | 923.76 | 1,006.27 | 1,007.97 | 1,290.09 | 1,481.76 | 1,850.76 | |
| Green | Peter McColl | 6.7 | 635 | 668.63 | 668.63 | 668.63 | 693.01 | 701.89 | 762.80 | 803.30 | 827.56 | 885.08 | 886.40 | ||||
| Independent | Norrie Davies | 3.2 | 302 | 316.30 | 316.43 | 317.81 | 320.18 | 325.68 | 342.81 | 367.32 | |||||||
| Independent | Archie Burns | 3.1 | 291 | 306.56 | 307.93 | 310.19 | 311.31 | 315.94 | 332.70 | 376.83 | 415.09 | ||||||
| Independent | Margaret Munro | 2.6 | 244 | 251.40 | 251.65 | 257.78 | 260.41 | 262.91 | 268.41 | ||||||||
| Solidarity | Caroline J. Hosking | 2.0 | 187 | 214.35 | 214.73 | 214.85 | 231.61 | 238.62 | |||||||||
| Liberal | Massimo Circi | 1.2 | 114 | 131.94 | 131.94 | 131.94 | 133.07 | ||||||||||
| Scottish Socialist | Jan Moran | 0.8 | 73 | 81.91 | 82.03 | 82.03 | |||||||||||
| Independent | John Smart | 0.2 | 19 | 20.13 | 20.13 | ||||||||||||
| Independent | Gerry Kerr | 0.1 | 5 | 7.001 | |||||||||||||
| Electorate: 17,404 Valid: 9,281 Spoilt: 206 Quota: 2,321 Turnout: 54.5% | |||||||||||||||||