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Suggest pagesAberdeen City Council
| Aberdeen City Council Aiberdeen Ceitie Cooncil Comhairle Cathair Obar Dheathain |
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| Location | |
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| Geography | |
| Area | Ranked 25th |
| - Total | 71.22 sq mi (184.5 km2) |
| Admin HQ | Aberdeen |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-ABE |
| ONS code | 00QA |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Ranked 8th |
| - Total (2005) | 217,100 |
| - Density | 1,169 / km² |
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| Aberdeen City Council aberdeencity.gov.uk |
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| Control | Liberal Democrat/Scottish National Party |
| MPs | Frank Doran Anne Begg Malcolm Bruce |
| MSPs | Brian Adam Kevin Stewart Maureen Watt |
Aberdeen City Council represents the Aberdeen City council area of Scotland.
The council area was created in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. However, a sense of Aberdeen as a city, with its own city council, can be traced back to 1900, when the city of county of Aberdeen was created.
In 1975, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, the county of city was combined with Bucksburn, Newhills, Old Machar, Stoneywood, Dyce and Peterculter areas of the county of Aberdeen and a Nigg area of the county of Kincardine (including Cove Bay) to form the Aberdeen district of the Grampian region. This district became the now existing unitary council area in 1996.
On 9 May 1995 by resolution under section 23 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 The City of Aberdeen Council changed the name of the local government area of "City of Aberdeen" to "Aberdeen City".
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[edit] Composition
Between 2003 and 2007 the council was under the control of a Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition, holding 23 of the 43 seats on the council. Prior to the 2003 election, the council had been considered a Labour stronghold.[1] Following the May 2007 election, contested for the first time using a system of proportional representation, the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party (SNP) formed a coalition to run the council, holding 27 of the 43 seats (following an SNP by election gain from the Conservatives on 16 August 2007, the Lib Dem/SNP coalition held 28 of the 43 seats). In August 2009 a councillor resigned from the Liberal Democrats and became an independent. The Conservative Group split in August 2010 with two councillors forming the Aberdeen Conservatives.
Aberdeen City Council comprises forty-three councillors who represent the city's wards and is headed by the Lord Provost who is currently Lord Provost Peter Stephen.
Current political composition: (as at January 2011)
- Scottish National Party - 15 councillors
- Liberal Democrat - 12 councillors
- Labour - 9 councillors
- Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - 2 councillors
- Independent Alliance - 3 councillors
- Independent - 2 councillors
Chief Officials:
- Chief Executive - Valerie Watts
- Head of Legal & Democratic Services - Jane MacEachran
[edit] New wards from May 2007
Before May 2007, councillors represented 43 single-member wards, but since then,all seats were contested by a different electoral system. On May 5, 2007, it was the first election to use the single transferable vote system of election and multi-member wards, each ward electing three or four councillors. The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland completed its final recommendations for new wards for all the council areas of Scotland and for Aberdeen there will be 13 multi-member wards with a total of 43 councillors. This system was introduced as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, and is designed to produce a form of proportional representation.[2]
The composition of wards have changed to:
3 councillors:
- (11) Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee
- (8) George Street/Harbour
- (5) Hilton/Stockethill
- (13) Kincorth/Loirston
- (3) Kingswells/Sheddocksley
- (9) Lower Deeside
- (7) Midstocket/Rosemount
- (4) Northfield
- (6) Tillydrone/Seaton/Old Aberdeen
4 councillors:
- (2) Bridge of Don
- (1) Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone
- (10) Hazlehead/Ashley/Queens Cross
- (12) Torry/Ferryhill
The most recent results from this election were as followed:
| Ward | Councillors | Party | |||||||||||
| Dyce / Bucksburn / Danestone | Ron Clark | Liberal Democrat | |||||||||||
| Barney Crockett | Labour | ||||||||||||
| Mark McDonald | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| George Penny | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Bridge of Don | Muriel Jaffrey | Scottish National Party | |||||||||||
| Gordon Leslie | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| John Reynolds | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Willie Young | Labour | ||||||||||||
| Kingswells / Sheddocksley | Len Ironside | Labour | |||||||||||
| Peter Stephen | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Wendy Stuart | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| Northfield | Jackie Dunbar | Scottish National Party | |||||||||||
| Gordon Graham | Labour | ||||||||||||
| Kevin Stewart | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| Hilton / Stockethill | George Adam | Labour | |||||||||||
| Neil Fletcher | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Kirsty West | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| Tillydrone / Seaton / Old Aberdeen | Norman Collie | Labour | |||||||||||
| Jim Noble | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| Richard Robertson | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Midstocket / Rosemount | Bill Cormie | Scottish National Party | |||||||||||
| Jenny Laing | Labour | ||||||||||||
| John Corral | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| George Street / Harbour | Jim Hunter | Labour | |||||||||||
| Andy May | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| John Stewart | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Lower Deeside | Mary Boulton | Independent | |||||||||||
| Aileen Malone | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Alan Milne | Conservative | ||||||||||||
| Hazlehead / Ashley / Queen's Cross | Jim Farquharson | Conservative | |||||||||||
| Martin Greig | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Jennifer Stewart | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| John West | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| Airyhall / Broomhill / Garthdee | Scott Cassie | Liberal Democrat | |||||||||||
| Jillian Wisely | Conservative | ||||||||||||
| Ian Yuill | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Torry / Ferryhill | Yvonne Allan | Labour | |||||||||||
| Irene Cormack | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Alan Donnelly | Conservative | ||||||||||||
| Jim Kiddle | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| Kincorth / Loirston | Neil Cooney | Labour | |||||||||||
| Katherine Dean | Liberal Democrat | ||||||||||||
| Callum McCaig | Scottish National Party | ||||||||||||
| Source: [1] | |||||||||||||
[edit] Composition (before May 2007)
The previous composition of 43 wards while using the standard First Past the Post voting system. Their representative councillors and political parties were:
| Party | Ward | Councillor | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (34) Ashley | Martin Greig | |||||||||||
| Scottish National Party | (9) Auchmill | Kevin Stewart | |||||||||||
| Labour | (2) Bankhead and Stoneywood | Brian Rattary | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (21) Berryden | John Stewart | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (6) Bridge of Don | Millicent McLeod | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (35) Broomhill | Ian Yuill | |||||||||||
| Labour | (28) Castlehill | James Hunter | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (32) Cults | Aileen Malone | |||||||||||
| Labour | (10) Cummings Park | Gordon Graham | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (3) Danestone | Raymond Hutcheon | |||||||||||
| Scottish National Party | (7) Donmouth | Muriel Jaffrey | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (38) Duthie | Irene Cormack | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (37) Dyce | Ronald Clark | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (36) Garthdee | Scott Cassie | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (26) Gilcomston | Alison Smith | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (29) Hazlehead | Karen Freel | |||||||||||
| Labour | (15) Hilton | George Adam | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (37) Holburn | David Falconer | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (4) Jesmond | Gordon Leslie | |||||||||||
| Labour | (42) Kincorth East | George Urquhart | |||||||||||
| Independent | (41) Kincorth West | David Clyne | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (19) Kittybrewster | Neil Fletcher | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (27) Langstane | Steve Delaney | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (43) Loirston | Katherine Dean | |||||||||||
| Conservative | (33) Mannofield | Jillian Wisely | |||||||||||
| Labour | (12) Mastrick | Ramsey Milne | |||||||||||
| Conservative | (24 ) Midstocket | John Porter | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (31) Murtle | Matthew Duncan | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (8) Newhills | Peter Stephen | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (5) Oldmachar | John Reynolds | |||||||||||
| Liberal Democrat | (30) Peterculter | Pamela MacDonald | |||||||||||
| Labour | (23) Pittodrie | Ronald Webster | |||||||||||
| Conservative | (25) Queens Cross | Brenda Craig | |||||||||||
| Labour | (18) Seaton | Norman Collie | |||||||||||
| Labour | (13) Sheddocksley | James Lamond | |||||||||||
| Scottish National Party | (11) Springhill | Karen Shirron | |||||||||||
| Labour | (17) St. Machar | Sandra Macdonald | |||||||||||
| Labour | (20) Stockethill | June Lamond | |||||||||||
| Labour | (14) Summerhill | Leonard Ironside | |||||||||||
| Scottish National Party | (22) Sunnybank | Andrew May | |||||||||||
| Labour | (39) Torry | Yvonne Allan | |||||||||||
| Scottish National Party | (40) Tullos | James Kiddie | |||||||||||
| Scottish National Party | (16) Woodside & Tillydrone | Alan Gowers | |||||||||||
| Source: Aberdeen City Council | |||||||||||||
[edit] References
- ^ David, Scott (2002-12-30). "Labour is set to lose council strongholds in elections". The Scotsman. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1443312002.
- ^ "Scottish elections 2007". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 2007-01-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20070127122545/http://www.electoralcommission.gov.uk/your-area/scotelections2007.cfm. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
