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Corstorphine/Murrayfield 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 Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Paul Edie
(Liberal Democrats)
rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Phil Wheeler
(Liberal Democrats)
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color" | Jeremy Balfour
(Conservative)
2012 rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Frank Ross
(SNP)
2017 Gillian Gloyer
(Liberal Democrats)
Scott Douglas
(Conservative)

Election Results

2017 Election

2017 City of Edinburgh Council election [2]

Corstorphine/Murrayfield - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Conservative Scott Douglas 33.41% 3,819          
Liberal Democrats Gillian Gloyer 30.64% 3,502          
SNP Frank Ross (incumbent) 21.65% 2,474 2,503 2,566 2,577 2,680 2,956
Labour June Whitelaw 7.68% 878 1,089 1,289 1,316 1,386 1,633
Scottish Green Kate Nevens 5.23% 598 670 780 792 852  
Independent John Ferguson Scott 0.80% 92 221 281 316    
UKIP James Nisbet 0.58% 66 150 165      
Electorate: 19,328   Valid: 11,429   Spoilt: 101   Quota: 2,858   Turnout: 11,530 (59.7%)  

2012 Election

2012 City of Edinburgh Council election

Corstorphine/Murrayfield - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Conservative Jeremy Balfour (incumbent) 24.96% 2,050 2,100        
SNP Frank Ross 24.74% 2,032 2,053 2,056      
Liberal Democrats Paul Edie (incumbent) 21.77% 1,788 1,798 1,817 1,818 1,993 2,798
Labour Tom McInally 20.45% 1,679 1,698 1,702 1,702 1,884  
Scottish Green Dominic Hinde 6.11% 502 526 530 530    
UKIP James Nisbet 1.96% 161          
Electorate: 17,445   Valid: 8,212   Spoilt: 56 (0.68%)   Quota: 2,054   Turnout: 8,268 (47.4%)  

2007 Election

2007 City of Edinburgh Council election

2007 Council election: Corstorphine/Murrayfield
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Conservative Jeremy Balfour 25.7 2,972            
Liberal Democrats Paul Edie 21.1 2,444 2,474.88 2,481.88 2,633.48 3,046.01    
Liberal Democrats Phil Wheeler 16.6 1,915 1,927.83 1,936.87 2,054.48 2,459.35 2,578.54 3,536.57
Labour Daniel Donaldson 15.2 1,757 1,762.90 1,773.90 1,863.38 2,136.86 2,164.33  
SNP Robin J A MacCormick 14.9 1,727 1,734.77 1,750.92 1,852.76      
Scottish Green Charles Kennedy 4.8 556 565.68 582.75        
Scottish Socialist Andrew Weir 0.7 80 80.29          
Electorate: 17,531   Valid: 11,451   Spoilt: 119   Quota: 2,863   Turnout: 66.0%  

References