Sighthill/Gorgie (ward)
Location of the ward [1]
Sighthill/Gorgie 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" | | Joanna Toomey (Liberal Democrats) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | Nick Elliott-Canon (SNP) |
rowspan=3; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Donald C Wilson (Labour) |
rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Labour Party/meta/color" | | Eric Milligan (Labour) |
| 2012 | rowspan=2; style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | | Catherine Fullerton (SNP) |
Denis Dixon (SNP) | |||||
| 2017 | rowspan=1; style="background-color: Template:Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party/meta/color" | | Ashley Graczyk (Conservative) | ||||||
Election Results
2017 Election
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Catherine Fullerton (incumbent) | 18.5% | 1,574 | 1,575 | 1,582 | 1,888 | ||||
| Conservative | Ashley Graczyk††† | 19.09% | 1,621 | 1,625 | 1,694 | 1,701 | ||||
| Labour | Donald Wilson (incumbent) | 11.69% | 993 | 995 | 1,048 | 1,063 | 1,071.4 | 1,071.7 | 1,821.9 | |
| SNP | Denis Dixon (incumbent) | 14.01% | 1,190 | 1,191 | 1,204 | 1,452 | 1,596.7 | 1,596.8 | 1,621.8 | |
| Scottish Green | Dan Heap | 14.9% | 1,264 | 1,269 | 1,356 | 1,405 | 1,421.3 | 1,421.6 | 1,471.4 | |
| Labour | Carmel Smith | 9.94% | 844 | 845 | 902 | 909 | 914 | 914.5 | ||
| SNP | Simon Hayter | 7.63% | 648 | 648 | 653 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Devin Scott Scobie | 3.91% | 332 | 338 | ||||||
| Scottish Libertarian | Calum Strange | 0.32% | 27 | |||||||
| Electorate: 21,885 Valid: 8,493 Spoilt: 219 Quota: 1,699 Turnout: 8,712 (39.8%) | ||||||||||
2012 Election
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Eric Milligan (incumbent) | 28.3 | 2,266 | ||||||
| SNP | Catherine Fullerton | 20.3 | 1,624 | ||||||
| SNP | Denis Dixon | 17.1 | 1,368 | 1,389 | 1,396 | 1,414 | 1,462 | 1,688 | |
| Labour | Donald Wilson (incumbent) | 13.8 | 1,107 | 1,677 | |||||
| Conservative | Susan Dewhurst | 9.2 | 736 | 745 | 749 | 750 | 808 | 917 | |
| Scottish Green | Lindsay Ashford | 8.2 | 658 | 674 | 690 | 691 | 776 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Neil MacLean | 3.2 | 253 | 260 | 267 | 267 | |||
| Electorate: 23,877 Valid: 8,012 Spoilt: 240 (2.91%) Quota: 1,603 Turnout: 8,252 (34.6%) | |||||||||
2007 Election
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | Nick Elliott-Canon | 30.9 | 3,785 | |||||||||
| Labour | Eric Milligan | 26.0 | 3,185 | |||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Joanna Toomey | 10.6 | 1,300 | 1,510.76 | 1,562.88 | 1,581.62 | 1,612.21 | 1,649.38 | 1,713.14 | 2,158.92 | 2,618.40 | |
| Conservative | Iain G Gibson | 9.6 | 1,180 | 1,257.57 | 1,271.31 | 1,285.52 | 1,296.09 | 1,341.93 | 1,358.27 | 1,432.83 | ||
| Labour | Donald C Wilson | 9.3 | 1,142 | 1,270.43 | 1,718.61 | 1,746.99 | 1,769.54 | 1,810.64 | 1,877.65 | 2,027.13 | 2,158.60 | |
| Scottish Green | James N G Mackenzie | 5.7 | 702 | 891.91 | 919.34 | 941.22 | 1,007.12 | 1,063.20 | 1,172.87 | |||
| Solidarity | Jason J Mangan | 1.9 | 238 | 349.60 | 362.97 | 368.67 | 431.73 | 463.41 | ||||
| Independent | Keith J Bell | 1.7 | 209 | 289.50 | 300.63 | 334.49 | 347.87 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Gerry Corbett | 1.4 | 168 | 249.96 | 263.70 | 267.17 | ||||||
| Independent | Tam Smith | 1.0 | 127 | 156.27 | 164.33 | |||||||
| Electorate: 24,717 Valid: 11,996 Spoilt: 236 Quota: 2,400 Turnout: 49.5% | ||||||||||||
References
- ^ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13922/map-of-city-of-edinburgh-wards-councillors-and-msps
- ^ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13907/local-government-election-results-2017
- ^ Council, The City of Edinburgh. "Local Government Election results 2017". www.edinburgh.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2019.