Haddington and Lammermuir (ward)

Location of the ward

Haddington and Lammermuir is one of the six wards used to elect members of the East Lothian Council. It elects four Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Sheena Richardson (Liberal Democrats)		Ludovic Broun-Lindsay (Conservative)		Tom Trotter (SNP)	3 seats
2012		John McMillan (Labour)
2017	Brian Small (Conservative)			Shamin Akhtar (Labour)
2019 by	Craig Hoy (Conservative)
2022	George McGuire (Conservative)

Election Results

2019 By-Election

Haddington and Lammermuir by-election 9 May 2019

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Conservative	Craig Hoy	35.01	2,212	2,249	2,428	2,759	3,277
	SNP	Lorraine Glass	29.53	1,866	1,874	2,044	2,469
	Labour	Neal Black	21.51	1,359	1,370	1,589
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart Crawford	12.25	774	782
	UKIP	David Sisson	1.71	108
Electorate: 14,396   Valid: 6,319   Spoilt: 44   Quota: 3,160   Turnout: 44.2%

2017 Election

2017 East Lothian Council election

Haddington and Lammermuir - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Brian Small†	29.03	2,262
	Labour	John McMillan (incumbent)	18.71	1,458	1593
	Labour	Shamin Akhtar (incumbent)	15.00	1,169	1,234	1,256	1,316	1,627
	SNP	Tom Trotter (incumbent)	14.66	1,142	1,153	1,155	1,236	1,327	1,333	2,227
	SNP	Ruth Currie	11.41	889	894	895	947	1,007	1,017
	Liberal Democrats	Kelvin Pate	7.29	568	791	795	889
	Scottish Green	Cris Thacker	3.88	302	329	330
Electorate: 14,095   Valid: 7,790   Spoilt: 108   Quota: 1,559   Turnout: 56%

2012 Election

2012 East Lothian Council election

Haddington and Lammermuir - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	John McMillan	33.38	1,522
	SNP	Tom Trotter (incumbent)	26.74	1,219
	Conservative	Ludovic Broun-Lindsay (incumbent)	19.92	908	961.7	971.8	1,004	1,076.1	1,483.3
	Liberal Democrats	Kelvin Logan Pate	13.38	610	723.2	743.9	755.9	867.7
	Independent	David Barrett	4.98	227	276.4	289.9	313.4
	UKIP	Oluf George Marshall	1.60	73	86.1	90
Electorate: 9,948   Valid: 4,559   Spoilt: 38   Quota: 1,140   Turnout: 4,597 (45.83%)

2007 Election

2007 East Lothian Council election

Haddington and Lammermuir

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Ludovic Broun-Lindsay	1,317	22.6	1	4
	SNP	Tom Trotter	1,107	19.0	3	4
	Liberal Democrats	Sheena Richardson	1,041	17.9	2	4
	Independent	Charles Ingle	1,019	17.5
	Labour	Ann McCarthy	985	16.9
	Scottish Green	Eurig Scandrett	281	4.8
	Solidarity	Gary Galbraith	68	1.2