Southside/Newington (ward)
Location of the ward [1]
Southside/Newington is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council. It elects four Councillors.
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | | Gordon Mackenzie (Liberal Democrats) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Ian Perry (Labour) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Green Party/meta/color" | | Steve Burgess (Greens) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color" | | Cameron Rose (Conservative) |
| 2012 | rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | Jim Orr (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | Alison Dickie (SNP) | |||||||
Election Results
2017 Election
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Conservative | Cameron Rose (incumbent) | 26.93% | 3,151 | |
| SNP | Alison Dickie | 20.54% | 2,403 | |
| Scottish Green | Steve Burgess (incumbent) | 20.35% | 2,381 | |
| Labour | Ian Perry (incumbent) | 20.12% | 2,354 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Dan Farthing | 12.05% | 1,410 | |
| Electorate: 22,338 Valid: 11,699 Spoilt: 73 Quota: 2,340 Turnout: 11,772 (52.7%) | ||||
2012 Election
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Steve Burgess (incumbent) | 19.97% | 1,869 | 1,883 | |||||||
| Labour | Ian Perry (incumbent) | 19.78% | 1,851 | 1,856 | 1,858 | 1,886 | |||||
| SNP | Jim Orr††† | 18.34% | 1,717 | 1,723 | 1,725 | 1,742 | 1,744 | 1,886 | |||
| Conservative | Cameron Rose (incumbent) | 16.72% | 1,565 | 1,568 | 1,568 | 1,570 | 1,571 | 1,855 | 1,857 | 2,501 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon MacKenzie (incumbent) | 13.97% | 1,308 | 1,341 | 1,343 | 1,348 | 1,351 | 1,548 | 1,551 | ||
| Independent | Gordon Murdie | 9.53% | 892 | 895 | 896 | 921 | 923 | ||||
| TUSC | William Black | 0.93% | 87 | 90 | 91 | ||||||
| Liberal | Margaret Lea | 0.76% | 71 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 20,821 Valid: 9,360 Spoilt: 67 (0.71%) Quota: 1,873 Turnout: 9,427 (45.3%) | |||||||||||
2007 Election
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Ian Perry | 18.6 | 2,530 | 2,537 | 2,548 | 2,554 | 2,568 | 2,763 | |||
| Conservative | Cameron Rose | 18.5 | 2,516 | 2,529 | 2,531 | 2,546 | 2,551 | 2,686 | 2,691.32 | 2,835.77 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Mackenzie | 17.0 | 2,304 | 2,309 | 2,315 | 2,356 | 2,378 | 2,670 | 2,681.66 | 4,168.10 | |
| Scottish Green | Steve Burgess | 14.1 | 1,920 | 1,935 | 1,961 | 1,974 | 2,062 | 2,610 | 2,623.58 | 2,893.41 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Liz O' Malley | 14.0 | 1,907 | 1,913 | 1,917 | 1,939 | 1,945 | 2,087 | 2,097.96 | ||
| SNP | Susanna Lacey | 13.1 | 1,780 | 1,790 | 1,824 | 1,845 | 1,876 | ||||
| Scottish Socialist | Scott Simpson | 1.1 | 146 | 150 | 183 | 189 | |||||
| Liberal | Margaret Lea | 1.1 | 144 | 148 | 156 | ||||||
| Solidarity | James C Allinson | 1.0 | 140 | 142 | |||||||
| Independent | George E Pitcher | 0.6 | 81 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 23,620 Valid: 13,468 Spoilt: 121 Quota: 2,694 Turnout: 57.5% | |||||||||||