South Ayrshire Council elections
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Local government elections in South Ayrshire, Scotland
South Ayrshire 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.
Results maps
1995 results map
1999 results map
2003 results map
2007 results map
2012 results map
2017 results map
2022 results map
By-elections
2003-2007
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Arthur Spurling | 1,072 | 55.8 | +2.4 | |
| Labour | Sandra Marshall | 506 | 26.4 | −1.1 | |
| SNP | Nan McFarlane | 242 | 12.6 | −6.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Ritchie | 100 | 5.2 | +5.2 | |
| Majority | 566 | 29.5 | |||
| Turnout | 1,920 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Brian Connolly | 408 | 27.7 | +27.7 | |
| Conservative | Ann Galbraith | 407 | 27.6 | −0.4 | |
| Labour | Sandra Goldie | 342 | 23.2 | −23.7 | |
| SNP | William McCubbin | 316 | 21.5 | +1.0 | |
| Majority | 1 | 0.1 | |||
| Turnout | 1,473 | ||||
| Independent gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
2012-2017
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SNP | John Wallace | 38.0 | 1,507 | 1,540 | 1,600 | 1,775 | |
| Conservative | Dan McCroskrie | 38.5 | 1,527 | 1,534 | 1,589 | 1,740 | |
| Labour | Susan Wilson | 16.2 | 642 | 654 | 708 | ||
| Independent | Andrew Bryden | 5.5 | 218 | 227 | |||
| Green | Boyd Murdoch | 1.9 | 76 | ||||
| SNP hold | |||||||
| Valid: 3,970 Spoilt: 36 Quota: 1,986 Turnout: 4,006 | |||||||
2022-2027
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Alan Lamont | 47.5 | 1,315 | 1,323 | 1,346 | 1,497 | |
| SNP | Joseph McLaughlin | 28.1 | 778 | 802 | 824 | 947 | |
| Labour | Nicola Saxton | 18.0 | 499 | 507 | 551 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Jamie Ross | 3.9 | 108 | 113 | |||
| Alba | Denise Sommerville | 2.5 | 70 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||||
| Valid: 2,770 Spoilt: 32 Quota: 1,386 Turnout: 2,802 | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Wullie Hogg | 25.1 | 850 | 864 | 871 | 924 | 952 | 1,138 | 1,325 | 1,699 | |
| SNP | Ian Douglas | 23.3 | 790 | 802 | 818 | 835 | 847 | 898 | 1,075 | ||
| Labour | John Duncan | 20.4 | 691 | 696 | 713 | 738 | 775 | 830 | |||
| Reform | Andrew Russell | 17.2 | 584 | 584 | 589 | 607 | 642 | ||||
| Conservative | David Paterson | 5.7 | 195 | 196 | 199 | 211 | |||||
| Independent | David Petrie | 4.5 | 151 | 157 | 160 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Mason Graham | 2.1 | 73 | 74 | |||||||
| Independent | Orhan Bulikj | 1.5 | 51 | ||||||||
| Independent hold | |||||||||||
| Valid: 3,385 Spoilt: 37 Quota: 1,693 Turnout: 3,422 | |||||||||||
References
- ↑ "Third Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements - South Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements Final Recommendations - South Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "South Ayrshire Council - Council Election Results 2004". South Ayrshire Council. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ↑ "South Ayrshire Council - Council Election Results 2006". South Ayrshire Council. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ↑ "Ayr East by-election, 2015". Scottish Elections. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
{{cite web}}: Check|archive-url=value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Faulds, Allan. "By-Election Result: Girvan and South Carrick". Ballot Box Scotland. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
- ↑ "LGBE 2025 Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 3 Ayr North" (PDF). South Ayrshire Council. 17 October 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
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