East Ayrshire Council election, 2012

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3 May 2012 (2012-05-03) 2017 → Maureen McKay Tom Cook 14 seats, 39.21% 14 seats, 41.12%		Douglas Reid Maureen McKay Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse Kilmarnock North

Kilmarnock North Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse

Elections to East Ayrshire Council are to be held on 3 May 2012, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. The election is the second using 9 new wards created as a results of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation. The new wards replaced 32 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

Election result

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Annick

2007: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon

2012: 1xSNP; 1xLab; 1xIndependent

2007-2012 Change: Independent gain one seat from Con

Kilmarnock North

2007: 2xSNP; 1xLab

2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab

Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse

2007: 2xSNP, 1xLab, 1xCon

2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon

Kilmarnock East and Hurlford

2007: 2xSNP; 2xLab

2012: 2xSNP; 2xLab

Kilmarnock South

2007: 2xSNP; 1xLab

2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab

2007-2012: No change

Irvine Valley

2007: 2xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon

2012: 2xSNP; 1xLab; 1xCon

2007-2012 Change: No change

Ballochmyle

2007: 3xLab; 1xSNP

2012: 2xLab; 2xSNP

2007-2012 Change: SNP gain one seat from Lab

Cumnock/New Cumnock

2007: 3xLab; 1xSNP

2012: 3xLab; 1xSNP

2007-2012 Change: No change

Doon Valley

2007: 1xLab; 1xSNP; 1xInd

2009 by-election: 2xLab; 1xSNP

2012: 2xLab; 1xSNP

2007-2012 Change: Lab gain one seat from Independent

Post Election Changes

† Kilmarnock North SNP Cllr Andrew Kershaw died on 31 December 2013.[1] A by-election was held on 27 March 2014 and his seat was held by Elaine Cowan of the SNP.

†† Irvine Valley SNP Cllr Alan Brown was elected as a MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun on 7 May 2015.[2] He resigned his Council seat on 17 July 2015 and a by-election was held on 1 October 2015. His seat was held by Elena Whitham of the SNP.

††† Kilmarnock East and Hurlford SNP Cllr James Buchanan died on 28 October 2016 after a short illness.[3] The by-election was held on 26 January 2017 and the seat was held by Fiona Campbell of the SNP.

References

East Ayrshire Council election, 2012 Wikipedia

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