Drum Brae/Gyle (ward)
Location of the ward [1]
Drum Brae/Gyle is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. It elects three Councillors.
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | Colin Keir (SNP) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | | Robert Aldridge (Liberal Democrats) |
rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | | Jenny Dawe (Liberal Democrats) | ||
| 2012 | Ron Cairns (SNP) |
rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Karen Keil (Labour) | |||||
| 2017 | Claire Bridgman (SNP) |
rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color" | | Mark Brown (Conservative) | |||||
Election Results
2017 Election
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Christopher Aldridge (incumbent) | 33.5% | 3,176 | ||
| SNP | Claire Bridgman†††† | 26.8% | 2,541 | ||
| Conservative | Mark Brown | 22.0% | 2,084 | 2,411 | |
| Labour | Karen Ann Keil (incumbent) | 13.3% | 1,262 | 1,483 | |
| Scottish Green | Phyl Meyer | 4.3% | 411 | 521 | |
| Electorate: 18,321 Valid: 9,474 Spoilt: 82 Quota: 2,369 Turnout: 52.2% | |||||
Forth
- 2012: 2xLab; 1xSNP; 1xCon
- 2017: 2xSNP; 1xCon; 1xLab
- 2012-2017 Change: One SNP gain from Labour.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Jim Campbell | 28.38% | 2,951 | ||||||||
| Labour | Cammy Day (incumbent) | 15.18% | 1,579 | 1,710 | 1,731 | 2,157 | |||||
| SNP | Eleanor Bird | 17.94% | 1,866 | 1,879 | 1,894 | 1,917 | 1,923 | 2,313 | |||
| SNP | George Gordon | 13.37% | 1,390 | 1,302 | 1,421 | 1,457 | 1,463 | 1,638 | 1,836 | 2,207 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tim Wight | 7.81% | 812 | 1,073 | 1,149 | 1,200 | 1,220 | 1,572 | 1,582 | ||
| Scottish Green | Gillian MacKay | 9.99% | 1,039 | 1,085 | 1,130 | 1,165 | 1,178 | ||||
| Labour | Heather Pugh | 5.55% | 577 | 623 | 651 | ||||||
| Independent | Nicola Ross | 1.78% | 185 | 269 | |||||||
| Electorate: 23,348 Valid: 10,399 Spoilt: 214 Quota: 2,080 Turnout: 45.5% | |||||||||||
2012 Election
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Karen Keil | 26.46% | 1,981 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Aldridge (incumbent) | 18.77% | 1,405 | 1,425 | 1,431 | 1,490 | 1,636 | 1,695 | 1,735 | 2,312 | |
| SNP | Ron Cairns * | 18.34% | 1,373 | 1,383 | 1,386 | 1,406 | 1,466 | 2,052 | |||
| Conservative | Mark Brown | 16.04% | 1,201 | 1,207 | 1,212 | 1,233 | 1,349 | 1,370 | 1,383 | ||
| SNP | Alison Lindsay | 8.66% | 648 | 657 | 661 | 699 | 750 | ||||
| Independent | Steven Binney | 6.92% | 518 | 532 | 588 | 663 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Linda Hendry | 3.62% | 271 | 285 | 296 | ||||||
| Independent | John Scott | 1.20% | 90 | 95 | |||||||
| Electorate: 17,123 Valid: 7,487 Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,872 Turnout: 7,565 (44.2%) | |||||||||||
2007 Election
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Aldridge | 25.2 | 2,630 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jenny Dawe | 19.6 | 2,049 | 2,078.99 | 2,100.27 | 2,113.31 | 2,234.21 | 2,702.55 | |||
| SNP | Colin G Keir | 18.4 | 1,917 | 1,920.20 | 1,939.32 | 1,956.32 | 2,018.71 | 2,263.43 | 2,287.23 | 2,725.43 | |
| Conservative | Steven Binney | 16.1 | 1,676 | 1,679.60 | 1,684.67 | 1,687.67 | 1,716.86 | 1,865.21 | 1,889.87 | ||
| Labour | Cameron Day | 14.8 | 1,545 | 1,549.01 | 1,559.12 | 1,576.19 | 1,631.28 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Fiona A Paterson | 3.2 | 330 | 331.94 | 337.99 | 361.09 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Iain Pendreich | 0.8 | 88 | 88.24 | 89.26 | ||||||
| Liberal | Roy Isserlis | 0.8 | 85 | 85.84 | |||||||
| Electorate: 17,364 Valid: 10,320 Spoilt: 113 Quota: 2,581 Turnout: 60.1% | |||||||||||