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Pentland Hills (ward)

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Location of the ward
Location of the ward [1]

Pentland Hills 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" | Ronald Cairns
(SNP)
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color" | Alastair S Paisley
(Conservative)
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | Ricky Henderson
(Labour)
3 seats
2012 Bill Henderson
(SNP)
Dominic Heslop
(Conservative)
2017 Neil Gerdiner
(SNP)
Graeme Bruce
(Conservative)
rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color" | Susan Webber
(Conservative)

Election results

2017 Election

2017 City of Edinburgh Council election [2]

Pentland Hills - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2
Conservative Graeme Bruce 27.2% 3,083  
SNP Neil Gardiner 21.1% 2,382  
Labour Ricky Henderson (incumbent) 20.6% 2,334  
Conservative Susan Webber 14.0% 1,587 2,293
SNP Ernesta Noreikiene 7.8% 880 888
Liberal Democrats Emma Farthing 4.9% 560 608
Scottish Green Evelyn Weston 4.3% 489 499
Electorate: 22,920   Valid: 11,315   Spoilt: 262   Quota: 2,264   Turnout: 50.5%  

2012 Election

2012 City of Edinburgh Council election

Pentland Hills - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
SNP Bill Henderson 29.16% 2,317            
Labour Ricky Henderson (incumbent) 28.85% 2,293            
Conservative Dominic Heslop 15.09% 1,199 1,224 1,249 1,335 1,397 1,502 2,446
Conservative Shelia Low 12.61% 1,002 1,017 1,040 1,099 1,154 1,240  
Scottish Green Phyl Meyer 4.05% 322 400 468 607 840    
Independent Mike 'Professor Pongoo' Ferrigan 5.59% 444 491 531 590      
Liberal Democrats Stuart Bridges 4.66% 370 414 462        
Electorate: 18,002   Valid: 7,947   Spoilt: 51   Quota: 1,987   Turnout: 7,998 (44.4%)  

2007 Election

2007 City of Edinburgh Council election

2007 Council election: Pentland Hills
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Conservative Alastair S Paisley 22.9 2,523 2,532 2,536 2,565 2,718 4,401
SNP Ronald Cairns 20.3 2,238 2,247 2,274 2,374 2,661 2,789
Labour Ricky Henderson 19.5 2,148 2,161 2,181 2,263 2,663 2,798
Conservative Andy MacIver 18.8 2,074 2,081 2,084 2,113 2,285  
Liberal Democrats Iain J Coleman 11.4 1,255 1,281 1,299 1,471    
Scottish Green Shonagh McEwan 4.3 479 488 518      
Scottish Socialist Alister H Black 1.1 116 117        
Liberal Irvine McMinn 0.9 94          
Electorate: 17,390   Valid: 10,927   Spoilt: 104   Quota: 2,732   Turnout: 62.83%  

References