2007 Scottish local elections

2007 Scottish local elections
All 1,222 seats to Scottish councils
Turnout	52.8% (3.2%)
	Colours denote the winning party with outright control
	Colours denote the party with the most seats
	Colours denote the party with largest share of first preference votes by ward

The Scottish local elections, 2007 were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England. All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election – all Scottish councils are unitary authorities.

Background

This was the first election for local government in Great Britain to use the Single Transferable Vote (the system is used in Northern Ireland), as implemented by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. The new electoral system resulted in most councils being under no overall control.

eCounting fiasco

Scanners supplied by DRS Data Services Limited of Milton Keynes, in partnership with Electoral Reform Services (ERS), the trading arm of the Electoral Reform Society, were used to electronically count the paper ballots in both the Scottish council elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.^[2]^[3]

Because of the fiasco in 2007 of holding parliamentary (Holyrood) and local elections simultaneously, the following Scottish local elections were held in 2012 instead of 2011.

Party performance

The Labour party lost control of all but two of its councils, Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, but received the largest number of votes, while the SNP were the main beneficiaries of the new voting system, picking over 180 new seats. The Scottish Greens elected their first-ever councillors, winning eight seats.

Results

Template:Scottish council elections, 2007

style="width: 2px; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservative Party" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #00B140;" data-sort-value="Scottish Green Party" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #ff0000;" data-sort-value="Scottish Socialist Party" | style="width: 2px; background-color: #a22f32;" data-sort-value="Solidarity (Scotland)" |

Party		Councils - majority	Councils - in coalition/minority	Councillors
Scottish National	0	11	363
Labour	2	11	348
Liberal Democrats	0	12	166
Conservative	0	8	143
Scottish Green	0	0	8
Scottish Socialist	0	0	1
Solidarity	0	0	1
	Other	3	9	192^[4]
	No overall control	27	-	-

Councils

The notional results in the following table are based on a document that John Curtice and Stephen Herbert (Professors at the University of Strathclyde) produced on 3 June 2005, calculating the effect of the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote on the 2003 Scottish Local Elections.^[5]

Council	2003 result		Notional control (based on 2003 results)	2007 result
Aberdeen City style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (LD + Con)	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (LD + SNP)	Details
Aberdeenshire style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (LD + Ind)	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (LD + Con)	Details
Angus style="width: 2px; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" \|	Scottish National	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Ind + Con + LD + Lab)	Details
Argyll and Bute style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Independent style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Ind + SNP)	Details
Clackmannanshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority)	Details
Dumfries and Galloway style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority^[6])	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Con + LD)	Details
Dundee City style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Lab + LD+ Con)	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Lab + LD+ Con)	Details
East Ayrshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Labour style="width: 2px; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" \|	Scottish National (SNP minority)	Details
East Dunbartonshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" \|	Liberal Democrats (LD minority^[7])	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Lab + Con)	Details
East Lothian style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (SNP + LD)	Details
East Renfrewshire style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Lab + LD)	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Lab + LD + Ind + Con)	Details
City of Edinburgh style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority^[8])	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (LD + SNP)	Details
Falkirk style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (SNP + Ind + Con)	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Lab + Ind + Con)	Details
Fife style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority^[9])	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (LD + SNP)	Details
Glasgow City style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Labour style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Details
Highland style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Independent style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Ind + SNP)	Details
Inverclyde style="width: 2px; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" \|	Liberal Democrats	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority)	Details
Midlothian style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority)	Details
Moray style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Independent style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Ind + Con)	Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Independent style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Details
North Ayrshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Labour style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority)	Details
North Lanarkshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Labour style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Details
Orkney style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Independent style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Details
Perth and Kinross style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (SNP + LD + Ind)	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (SNP + LD)	Details
Renfrewshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (SNP + LD)	Details
Scottish Borders style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Ind + Con)	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (Ind + Con + LD)	Details
Shetland style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Independent style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	Details
South Ayrshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservative Party" \|	Conservative (Con minority^[10])	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservative Party" \|	Conservative (Con minority)	Details
South Lanarkshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Labour style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority)	Details
Stirling style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority^[11])	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour (Lab minority)	Details
West Dunbartonshire style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	Labour style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (SNP + Ind)	Details
West Lothian style="width: 2px; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" \|	Labour	NOC style="width: 2px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" \|	No overall control (SNP + Ind)	Details

Notes and references

^ p. 11
^ "Electronic counting to take over from tellers at elections", The Scotsman, 19 April 2006
^ "Green light for DRS & ERS to deliver e-Count for 2007 Scottish Elections", press release, DRS Data Services Limited
^ 193 according to the BBC website
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Labour minority control. The council was previously run by a coalition of Scottish Liberal Democrats, Independents and the SNP.
^ Liberal Democrats lack a majority (LD: 12 councillors; opposition: 12 councillors)
^ Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 29 councillors; opposition: 29 councillors)
^ Labour minority administration
^ Conservative and Unionist control, on a cut of the cards (Con: 15 councillors; opposition: 15 councillors)
^ Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 11 councillors; opposition: 11 councillors)

[1] . 11

[2] "Electronic counting to take over from tellers at elections", The Scotsman, 19 April 2006

[3] "Green light for DRS & ERS to deliver e-Count for 2007 Scottish Elections", press release, DRS Data Services Limited

[4] 193 according to the BBC website

[5] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[6] Labour minority control. The council was previously run by a coalition of Scottish Liberal Democrats, Independents and the SNP.

[7] Liberal Democrats lack a majority (LD: 12 councillors; opposition: 12 councillors)

[8] Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 29 councillors; opposition: 29 councillors)

[9] Labour minority administration

[10] Conservative and Unionist control, on a cut of the cards (Con: 15 councillors; opposition: 15 councillors)

[11] Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 11 councillors; opposition: 11 councillors)

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

v t e Elections and referendums in Scotland
Scottish Parliament	1999 2003 2007 2011 2016 2021 Next
Parliament of Scotland	1612 1617 1621 1628 1639 1644 1648 1661 1669 1681 1685 1702
Convention of Estates	1617 1625 1630 1643 1665 1667 1678 1689
UK Parliament	1801 co-option 1802 1806 1807 1812 1818 1820 1826 1830 1831 1832 1835 1837 1841 1847 1852 1857 1859 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (Jan) 1910 (Dec) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (Feb) 1974 (Oct) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 Next
Local elections	1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1977 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017 2022
Referendums	1979 1997 2014
Scotland portal

v t e (2006 ←) 2007 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2008)
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York
District councils (England)	Allerdale Alnwick Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bedford Berwick-upon-Tweed Blaby Blyth Valley Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Bridgnorth Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Caradon Carlisle Carrick Castle Point Castle Morpeth Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chester Chester-le-Street Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Christchurch Chorley Colchester Congleton Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Crewe and Nantwich Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Derwentside Dover Easington Eastbourne East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire Eastleigh East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eden Ellesmere Port and Neston Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Great Yarmouth Guildford Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kennet Kerrier Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Macclesfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Shropshire North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire Northampton Norwich Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oswestry Pendle Penwith Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Restormel Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Ryedale Salisbury Scarborough Sedgefield Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway Shrewsbury and Atcham South Bedfordshire South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Tynedale Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Vale Royal Wansbeck Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset West Wiltshire Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest
Scottish councils	Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray Comhairle nan Eilean Siar North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders Shetland South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian
National Assemblies and Parliament elections	Scotland Wales Northern Ireland