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2007 East Ayrshire Council election

East Ayrshire Council election

Field	Value
election_name	2007 East Ayrshire Council election
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	2003 East Ayrshire Council election
previous_year	2003
election_date
next_election	2012 East Ayrshire Council election
next_year	2012
seats_for_election	All 32 seats to East Ayrshire Council
majority_seats	17
registered	91,963
turnout	55.0%
image1	Lab
party1	Scottish Labour Party
last_election1	23 seats, 49.2%
seats1	14
seat_change1	9
popular_vote1	20,705
percentage1	41.1%
swing1	8.1%
image2	SNP
party2	Scottish National Party
last_election2	8 seats, 35.3%
seats2	14
seat_change2	6
popular_vote2	18,744
percentage2	39.2%
swing2	3.9%
image3	Con
party3	Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
last_election3	1 seat, 12.5%
seats3	3
seat_change3	2
popular_vote3	6,446
percentage3	12.8%
swing3	0.3%
title	Council Leader
before_party	Scottish Labour Party
posttitle	Council Leader after election
after_party	Scottish National Party

Elections to East Ayrshire 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 nine 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 32 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

Election results

Note: Votes are the sum of first preference votes across all council wards. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 1 May 2003. This is because STV has an element of proportionality which is not present unless multiple seats are being elected. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at the dissolution of Scotland's councils. This was the first election to use the STV electoral system so only net gains/losses are shown.

Ward summary

|- class="unsortable" align="centre" ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"|Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|Total Cllrs |- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;" !colspan=2|SNP !colspan=2|Labour !colspan=2|Conservative !colspan=2|Others !colspan=2|Independents |- |30.7 |1 |34.3 |1 |21.1 |1 |1.6 |0 |12.3 |0

3
55.7
2
26.7
1
15.8
0
1.9
0
3
-
Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse
47.2
2
32.5
1
17.0
1
3.3
0
4
-
39.5
2
45.0
2
7.7
0
2.3
0
5.4
0
4
-
44.7
2
47.7
1
5.9
0
1.7
0
3
-
43.5
2
31.6
1
20.5
1
4.3
0
4
-
29.1
1
51.7
3
9.2
0
4.2
0
5.8
0
4
-
26.2
1
60.4
3
9.8
0
3.8
0
4
-
26.0
1
49.0
1
8.4
0
16.6
1
3
- class="unsortable"
!align="left"
!39.2
!14
!41.1
!14
!12.8
!3
!1.7
!0
!5.2
!1
!32
}

Ward results

Annick

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Kilmarnock North

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Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse

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Kilmarnock East and Hurlford

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Kilmarnock South

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Irvine Valley

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Ballochmyle

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Cumnock and New Cumnock

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Doon Valley

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By-elections 2007–12

Ballochmyle

On 11 December 2008 Labour's David Shaw won a by-election which arose following the resignation of his party colleague Eric Jackson on 24 September 2008.

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Doon Valley

On 1 October 2009 a by-election was held to fill the vacancy which arose following the death of Independent Cllr James Sutherland. Moira Pirrie won the by-election for Labour

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References

Faulds, Allan. "The Local STV Voting System Explained". Ballot Box Scotland.
"Single Transferable Vote". Electoral Reform Society.
Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - East Ayrshire".
Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - Ballochmyle Ward".
Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - Doon Valley Ward".

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