Midlothian East is one of the six wards used to elect members of the Midlothian Council. It elects three Councillors.
Location of the ward [1]
Councillors
edit| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Lisa Beattie (SNP) |
Peter Boyes (Labour) |
Katie Moffat (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
| 2012 | Peter de Vink (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2014 by | Kenny Young (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Kenneth Baird (SNP) |
John Hackett (Labour) |
Peter Smaill (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022[2] | Stuart Douglas McKenzie (SNP) |
Bryan Pottinger (Labour) | ||||||
Election Results
edit2021 By-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SNP | Stuart McKenzie | 35.38% | 1,538 | 1,547 | 1,662 | 1,963 | |
| Conservative | Alan Symon | 29.42% | 1,279 | 1,326 | 1,364 | 1,656 | |
| Labour | Hazel Flanagan | 24.61% | 1,070 | 1,114 | 1,222 | ||
| Scottish Green | Joy Hannah Godfrey | 6.49% | 282 | 332 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Margaret Louise Davis | 4.09% | 178 | ||||
| Electorate: 12,052 Valid: 4,347 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 2,174 Turnout: 4,368 (35.8%) | |||||||
2017 Election
edit2017 Midlothian Council election[4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Peter Smaill | 26.9 | 1,522 | ||||
| Labour | John Hackett | 22.7 | 1,284 | 1,314.3 | 1,387.5 | 1,431.6 | |
| Independent | Robert Hogg | 18.8 | 1,064 | 1,098.0 | 1,169.1 | 1,210.2 | |
| SNP | Kenneth Baird | 15.4 | 872 | 873.1 | 928.1 | 1,485.8 | |
| SNP | Louise D'Arcy-Greig | 10.8 | 609 | 610.4 | 677.4 | ||
| Scottish Green | Helen Armstrong | 5.3 | 301 | 309.1 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,652 Spoilt: 68 Quota: 1,414 Turnout: 48.3% | |||||||
2014 By-election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Kenny Young | 32.9% | 1,294 | 1,310 | 1,343 | 1,443 | 1,682 | |
| SNP | Colin Cassidy | 32.1% | 1,260 | 1,270 | 1,357 | 1,384 | 1,613 | |
| Independent | Robert Hogg | 19.8% | 780 | 789 | 831 | 914 | ||
| Conservative | Andrew Hardie | 8.4% | 331 | 342 | 359 | |||
| Scottish Green | Bill Kerr-Smith | 5.0% | 197 | 210 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Euan Davidson | 1.7% | 68 | |||||
| Electorate: 11,637 Valid: 3,930 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 1,966 Turnout: 3,970 (34.1%) | ||||||||
2012 Election
edit2012 Midlothian Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Lisa Beattie (incumbent) | 33.1 | 1,372 | |||||||
| Labour | Peter Boyes (incumbent) † | 24.2 | 1,003 | 1,015.5 | 1,020.5 | 1,036.7 | 1,048.6 | |||
| Labour | Katie Moffat (incumbent) | 11.5 | 475 | 486.9 | 493.2 | 525.7 | ||||
| Independent | Peter de Vink | 11.1 | 461 | 484.9 | 503.4 | 686.3 | 737.8 | 800.9 | 1014.3 | |
| SNP | Paul Bertram | 9.8 | 405 | 656.9 | 665.9 | 689.4 | 721.1 | 781.7 | ||
| Conservative | Richard Thomson | 9.1 | 379 | 388.3 | 388.3 | |||||
| TUSC | Bob Goupillot | 1.3 | 52 | 54.2 | ||||||
| Electorate: 10,409 Valid: 4,147 Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,037 Turnout: 4,225 (39.84%) | ||||||||||
2007 Election
edit2007 Midlothian Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Lisa Beattie | 1,988 | 34.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Peter Boyes | 1,357 | 23.6 | 2 | 4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Katie Moffat† | 831 | 14.5 | 3 | 7 | |
| Conservative | Robin Traquair | 812 | 14.1 | |||
| Labour | Bob Jenkins | 617 | 10.7 | |||
| Solidarity | Derek Duncan | 82 | 1.4 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Murray Court | 63 | 1.1 | |||
References
edit- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps". Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Local Government Election 2022".
- ^ 2021 Midlothian East by-election
- ^ "2017 local council elections | Local government election results". Midlothian Council. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
- ^ "Declaration of results: Ward 5 - Midlothian East" (PDF). Midlothian Council. 5 May 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 June 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Midlothian East by-election". Midlothian Council. 28 November 2014. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015.