2007 Scottish local elections
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Colours denote the party with largest share of first preference votes by ward |
The Scottish local elections, 2007 were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England. All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election – all Scottish councils are unitary authorities.
Background
This was the first election for local government in Great Britain to use the Single Transferable Vote (the system is used in Northern Ireland), as implemented by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. The new electoral system resulted in most councils being under no overall control.
eCounting fiasco
Scanners supplied by DRS Data Services Limited of Milton Keynes, in partnership with Electoral Reform Services (ERS), the trading arm of the Electoral Reform Society, were used to electronically count the paper ballots in both the Scottish council elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.[2][3]
Because of the fiasco in 2007 of holding parliamentary (Holyrood) and local elections simultaneously, the following Scottish local elections were held in 2012 instead of 2011.
Party performance
The Labour party lost control of all but two of its councils, Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, but received the largest number of votes, while the SNP were the main beneficiaries of the new voting system, picking over 180 new seats. The Scottish Greens elected their first-ever councillors, winning eight seats.
Results
Template:Scottish council elections, 2007
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservative Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00B140;" data-sort-value="Scottish Green Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #ff0000;" data-sort-value="Scottish Socialist Party" | style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #a22f32;" data-sort-value="Solidarity (Scotland)" |Party | Councils - majority | Councils - in coalition/minority | Councillors | |
SNP | 0 | 11 | 363 | |
Labour | 2 | 11 | 348 | |
Liberal Democrats | 0 | 12 | 166 | |
Conservative | 0 | 8 | 143 | |
Scottish Green | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Solidarity | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Other | 3 | 9 | 192[4] | |
No overall control | 27 | - | - |
Councils
The notional results in the following table are based on a document that John Curtice and Stephen Herbert (Professors at the University of Strathclyde) produced on 3 June 2005, calculating the effect of the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote on the 2003 Scottish Local Elections.[5]
Council | 2003 result | Notional control (based on 2003 results) |
2007 result | Details | ||
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Aberdeen City
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (LD + Con) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (LD + SNP) | Details | ||
Aberdeenshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (LD + Ind) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (LD + Con) | Details | ||
Angus
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | |
SNP | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Ind + Con + LD + Lab) | Details | ||
Argyll and Bute
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Independent
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Ind + SNP) | Details | ||
Clackmannanshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority) | Details | ||
Dumfries and Galloway
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority[6]) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Con + LD) | Details | ||
Dundee City
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Lab + LD+ Con) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Lab + LD+ Con) | Details | ||
East Ayrshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Labour
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDF38E;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | |
SNP (SNP minority) | Details | ||
East Dunbartonshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" | |
Liberal Democrats (LD minority[7]) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Lab + Con) | Details | ||
East Lothian
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (SNP + LD) | Details | ||
East Renfrewshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Lab + LD) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Lab + LD + Ind + Con) | Details | ||
City of Edinburgh
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority[8]) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (LD + SNP) | Details | ||
Falkirk
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (SNP + Ind + Con) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Lab + Ind + Con) | Details | ||
Fife
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority[9]) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (LD + SNP) | Details | ||
Glasgow City
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Labour
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Details | ||
Highland
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Independent
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Ind + SNP) | Details | ||
Inverclyde
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" | |
Liberal Democrats | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority) | Details | ||
Midlothian
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority) | Details | ||
Moray
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Independent
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Ind + Con) | Details | ||
Na h-Eileanan Siar
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Independent
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Details | ||
North Ayrshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Labour
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority) | Details | ||
North Lanarkshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Labour
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Details | ||
Orkney
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Independent
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Details | ||
Perth and Kinross
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (SNP + LD + Ind) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (SNP + LD) | Details | ||
Renfrewshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (SNP + LD) | Details | ||
Scottish Borders
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Ind + Con) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (Ind + Con + LD) | Details | ||
Shetland
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Independent
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | Details | ||
South Ayrshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservative Party" | |
Conservative (Con minority[10]) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservative Party" | |
Conservative (Con minority) | Details | ||
South Lanarkshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Labour
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority) | Details | ||
Stirling
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority[11]) | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour (Lab minority) | Details | ||
West Dunbartonshire
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | Labour
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (SNP + Ind) | Details | ||
West Lothian
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E4003B;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour Party" | |
Labour | NOC
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | |
No overall control (SNP + Ind) | Details |
Notes and references
- ^ p.11
- ^ "Electronic counting to take over from tellers at elections", The Scotsman, 19 April 2006
- ^ "Green light for DRS & ERS to deliver e-Count for 2007 Scottish Elections", press release, DRS Data Services Limited
- ^ 193 according to the BBC website
- ^ http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/research/briefings-05/SB05-31.pdf
- ^ Labour minority control. The council was previously run by a coalition of Scottish Liberal Democrats, Independents and the SNP.
- ^ Liberal Democrats lack a majority (LD: 12 councillors; opposition: 12 councillors)
- ^ Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 29 councillors; opposition: 29 councillors)
- ^ Labour minority administration
- ^ Conservative and Unionist control, on a cut of the cards (Con: 15 councillors; opposition: 15 councillors)
- ^ Labour lack a majority, after by election loss to Scottish National Party (Lab: 11 councillors; opposition: 11 councillors)