2007 Argyll and Bute Council election

2007 Scottish local government election April 2022 2007 Scottish local elections 2007 Argyll and Bute Council election Scotland parliamentary no 2003 Argyll and Bute Council election 2003 2007 05 03 y Argyll and Bute Council election, 2012 2012 All 36 seats to Argyll and Bute Council 19 Independent (politician) 16 6 15,715 39.1% 12.4% Scottish National Party 10 7 8,921 22.2% 9.0% Scottish Liberal Democrats 7 1 7,702 19.2% 4.9% Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 3 6,301 15.7% 1.7% Council Leader Allan MacAskill Independent Council Leader Dick Walsh Independent Elections to Argyll and Bute Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 11 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 36 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election. Election result Argyll and Bute local election result 2007 Independent (politician) 16 N/A N/A 6 44.4 39.1 15,715 12.4 Scottish National Party 10 N/A N/A 7 27.8 22.2 8,921 9.0 Scottish Liberal Democrats 7 N/A N/A 1 19.4 19.2 7,702 4.9 Scottish Conservative Party 3 N/A N/A 8.3 15.7 6,301 1.7 Scottish Labour Party 0 N/A N/A ±0 0.0 3.7 1,471 1.0 Solidarity (Scotland) 0 N/A N/A ±0 0.0 0.2 76 New Ward results Incumbent councillors are marked with * South Kintyre South Kintyre 4 Scottish Conservative Party Donald Kelly* 1,332 42.9%       Scottish National Party John Donald Semple 663 21.3% 710 743 845 Scottish Labour Party George McMillan 444 14.3% 495 508   Scottish Liberal Democrats Rory Colville* 441 14.2% 505 512 658 Scottish Conservative Party James Martin 152 4.9% 503 514 575 Solidarity (Scotland) Deirdre Henderson 76 2.4% 83     4 5,503 3,108 57 778 57.51% Kintyre and the Islands Kintyre and the Islands 5 Scottish Liberal Democrats Robin Currie* 1,131 34.6%         Independent (politician) John McAlpine* 608 18.6% 637 685 726 825 Scottish National Party Anne Horn 482 14.7% 525 556 601 678 Independent (politician) Ann Newman 342 10.5% 434 450 547 607 Scottish Conservative Party Peter Minshall 300 9.2% 317 370 387   Scottish Labour Party Phil Hawkins 219 6.7% 284 295     Independent (politician) Maureen Scott 190 5.8% 195       5 5,307 3,272 45 819 62.50% Mid Argyll Mid Argyll 6 Scottish Liberal Democrats Alison Hay* 813 22.0% 833 880 975     Independent (politician) Donnie MacMillan* 699 18.9% 712 733 794 806 964 Scottish National Party Colin Stevenson 625 16.9% 632 672 693 700 735 Independent (politician) Douglas Trevor Philand 582 15.7% 608 650 674 681 796 Independent (politician) Sandy Cameron 344 9.3% 359 375 414 420   Scottish Conservative Party Charlotte Hanbury 305 8.2% 312 318       Scottish Labour Party Wendy Reynolds 225 6.1% 230         Independent (politician) Cameron Lewis 106 2.9%           6 5,948 3,699 49 925 63.01% Oban South and the Isles Oban South and the Isles 7 Scottish National Party Roddy McCuish 955 23.3%             Scottish Liberal Democrats Mary-Jean Devon † 672 16.4% 674 684 820       Scottish National Party Donald Skye McIntosh* †††† 506 12.4% 579 593 613 614 653 761 Independent (politician) Gordon Chalmers 444 10.9% 445 450 458 458 592 617 Scottish Conservative Party Roy Rutherford 413 10.1% 417 440 473 473 496 550 Independent (politician) Alastair MacDougall* 347 8.5% 348 376 389 390     Scottish Liberal Democrats Nicola Welsh 293 7.2% 299 317         Independent (politician) Neil MacKinnon MacIntyre 290 7.1% 315 354 391 391 427   Independent (politician) Roderick MacEachen 143 3.5% 145           Independent (politician) David Gallant 27 0.7% 27           7 7,401 4,090 98 819 56.59% Oban North and Lorn Oban North and Lorn 8 Independent (politician) Elaine Robertson* 1,005 22.0%               Independent (politician) Duncan MacIntyre 779 17.1% 801 821 872 934       Scottish Liberal Democrats Neil MacKay ††† 665 14.6% 678 701 726 772 777 846 951 Scottish National Party Donald MacDonald 618 13.6% 620 632 654 672 673 694 724 Scottish National Party Mike MacKenzie 401 8.8% 407 411 419 434 435 466 486 Scottish Conservative Party Eileen Mary Kirkpatrick 387 8.5% 394 404 419 427 429 457   Independent (politician) Ian Smyth 200 4.4% 211 222 240 267 271     Independent (politician) Sidney MacDougall* 188 4.1% 192 209 229         Independent (politician) George Doyle 176 3.9% 179 198           Independent (politician) Gwen Cameron 140 3.1% 146             8 7,431 4,559 87 912 62.52% Cowal Cowal 5 Scottish National Party Ron Simon 1,127 29.8%         Independent (politician) Alex McNaughton 880 23.3% 909 996     Independent (politician) Bruce Marshall* 745 19.7% 768 813 829 956 Scottish Conservative Party Dave Petrie 491 13.0% 504 523 530 630 Scottish Liberal Democrats Trevor Oxborrow 346 9.2% 376 391 397   Independent (politician) Iain Jarvis Gow 192 5.1% 203       5 5,878 3,781 61 946 65.36% Dunoon Dunoon 4 Independent (politician) Dick Walsh* 855 24.6% 938     Scottish National Party Alister MacAlister †††††† 821 23.6% 836 845 870 Independent (politician) Jimmy McQueen* 754 21.7% 804 829 903 Scottish Labour Party David Graham 358 10.3% 371 376 384 Scottish Liberal Democrats Tony Miles 257 7.4% 269 278 336 Scottish Conservative Party Sandy MacPherson 239 6.9% 245 252   Independent (politician) Gordon McKinven* 193 5.6%       4 5,862 3,477 45 870 60.08% Isle of Bute Isle of Bute 5 Independent (politician) Len Scoullar* 868 28.2%         Scottish National Party Robert MacIntyre* 839 27.2%         Scottish National Party Isobel Strong* 551 17.9% 597 647 667 730 Independent (politician) Fraser Gillies 238 7.7% 251 255 303 333 Scottish Labour Party Harry Hattan 225 7.3% 228 230 236   Scottish Liberal Democrats Karen Anne Hilton 218 7.1% 226 229 258 308 Scottish Conservative Party Peter Wallace 143 4.6% 152 154     5 5,354 3,082 66 771 58.80% Lomond North Lomond North 4 Independent (politician) Billy Petrie* 794 22.2% 893 1,083   Independent (politician) Danny Kelly* 734 20.5% 786 855 905 Independent (politician) George Freeman* 616 17.2% 658 738 784 Scottish National Party Elizabeth Buist 557 15.6% 604 649 669 Scottish Conservative Party James Proctor 484 13.5% 548     Scottish Liberal Democrats Andrew Nisbet 395 11.0%       4 6,239 3,580 35 896 57.94% Helensburgh Central Helensburgh Central 3 Scottish Conservative Party Gary Mulvaney* 1,220 27.7%     Scottish National Party James Alexander Robb †† 822 18.6% 844 865 Scottish Liberal Democrats Aileen Morton 734 16.6% 782 811 Scottish Liberal Democrats Al Reay* ††††† 728 16.5% 808 849 Independent (politician) Vivien Dance 707 16.0% 772 852 Independent (politician) Richard William Humphrey 198 4.5% 228   3 7,617 4,409 67 882 58.76% Helensburgh and Lomond South Helensburgh and Lomond South 4 Scottish Conservative Party David Fairbairn Kinniburgh 835 26.7%       Independent (politician) Ronald Kinloch* 713 22.8% 728 753 815 Scottish Liberal Democrats Ellen Morton* 700 22.4% 712 946   Scottish National Party Richard MacDonald Trail 572 18.3% 575 597 631 Scottish Liberal Democrats Karen York 309 9.9% 314     4 5,596 3,129 34 783 56.52% Changes since 2007 Election †In September 2007, Oban South and the Isles Cllr Mary-Jean Devon quit the Liberal Democrats and became an Independent. She joined the Scottish National Party on 1 July 2011. ††Since the election, Helensburgh Central Cllr James Robb quit the Scottish National Party and became an Independent Nationalist. †††Since the election, Oban North and Lorn Cllr Neil MacKay quit the Liberal Democrats and became an Alliance of Independent Councillor. ††††On 18 November 2011, Oban South and the Isles Cllr Donald Skye McIntosh died. †††††On 25 February 2012 Hellensburgh Central Cllr Al Reay died. ††††††On 30 March 2012 Dunoon Cllr Alister MacAlister died. By-Elections since 3 May 2007 On 4 October 2007 the Liberal Democrats Andrew Nisbit won a by-election which arose following the death of former Independent Councillor Ronald Kinloch on 23 July 2007 Helensburgh and Lomond South by-election 4 October 2007 - 1 Seathttp://www.alba.org.uk/localby/helensburghlomond.html Helensburgh and Lomond South (Argyll and Bute) 4th October 2007 2012-01-27 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20081203160052/http://www.alba.org.uk/localby/helensburghlomond.html 2008-12-03 4 Andrew Nisbit Scottish Liberal Democrats 642 30.31 752 1,014 1,525 Jim Proctor Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 627 29.60 684 839   Gordon Hanning Independent (politician) 493 23.28 606     Richard Trail Scottish National Party 356 16.81       Scottish Liberal Democrats Independent (politician) 4 5,690 2,118 10 1,060 2,128 (37.4%) On 3 November 2011 the SNP's Louise Glen-Lee won a by-election which arose following the death of former SNP Councillor Donald MacDonald on 4 August 2011 Oban North & Lorn by-election 3 November 2011 - 1 Seathttp://www.kristoferkeane.co.uk/by-obannorthlorn.html September 2016 4 Louise Glen-Lee Scottish National Party 1,081 44.14 1,117 1,179 1,374 Roy Rutherford Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 505 20.62 523 591 758 Gwyneth Neal Independent (politician) 438 17.88 496 561   David Pollard Scottish Liberal Democrats 260 10.62 273     George Doyle Independent (politician) 165 6.73       Scottish National Party 4 7,606 2,449 19 1,225 2,468 (32.4%) References 2007 Category:2007 Scottish local elections