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2007 South Ayrshire Council election

South Ayrshire Council election

Field	Value
election_name	2007 South Ayrshire Council election
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	2003 South Ayrshire Council election
previous_year	2003
election_date
next_election	2012 South Ayrshire Council election
next_year	2012
seats_for_election	All 30 seats to South Ayrshire Council
majority_seats	16
turnout
image1	Con
leader1	Bill McIntosh
party1	Scottish Conservatives
leaders_seat1	Troon
last_election1	15 seats, 41.5%
seats_before1	15
seats1	12
seat_change1	3
popular_vote1	18,568
percentage1	37.2%
swing1	4.3%
image2	Lab
party2	Scottish Labour Party
last_election2	15 seats, 36.7%
seats_before2	15
seats2	9
seat_change2	6
popular_vote2	14,152
percentage2	28.4%
swing2	8.3%
image4	SNP
party4	Scottish National Party
last_election4	0 seats, 17.3%
seats_before4	0
seats4	8
seat_change4	8
popular_vote4	12,624
percentage4	25.3%
swing4	8.0%
image5	Ind
leader5	Brian Connolly
party5	Independent (politician)
leaders_seat5	Maybole, North Carrick & Coylton
last_election5	0 seats, 2.9%
seats_before5	0
seats5	1
seat_change5	1
popular_vote5	4,160
percentage5	8.3%
swing5	5.4%
title	Council Leader
before_election	Bill McIntosh
(Conservative)
before_party	No overall control
posttitle	Council Leader after election
after_election	Bill McIntosh
(Conservative)
after_party	No overall control
map_image	South Ayrshire Council election 2007.svg
map_caption	The 8 multi-member wards

(Conservative) (Conservative)

The 2007 South Ayrshire Council election took place on 3 May 2007 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections and elections to the Scottish Parliament.

The election was the first to use the 8 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward electing three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation. The new wards replaced the 30 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

The election saw the Conservatives returned as the largest party on the council despite losing three seats. Labour, who had tied with the Conservatives as the largest party in 2003, lost six seats as they became the second-largest party. The Scottish National Party (SNP) picked up their first representation in the area for 30 years as they gained eight seats. The remaining seat was won by an independent candidate.

Results

Source:

Summary by ward

|- class="unsortable" align="center" !rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|Total Cllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2|Conservative !colspan=2|Labour !colspan=2|SNP !colspan=2|Independents !colspan=2|Others |- |20.3 |1 |23.9 |1 |13.9 |0

4
30.1
1
28.1
1
4
-
18.4
1
25.0
1
8.8
0
3.0
0
4
-
30.7
1
27.6
1
2.6
0
4
-
16.9
1
20.9
1
7.5
0
4
-
32.8
1
21.8
1
11.1
0
3
-
24.4
1
24.7
1
24.7
1
4
-
29.6
1
33.1
1
3
- class="unsortable"
!align="left"
!37.2
!12
!28.4
!9
!25.3
!8
!8.3
!1
!0.7
!0
!30
}

Source:

Ward results

Troon

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Prestwick

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Ayr North

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Ayr East

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Ayr West

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Kyle

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Maybole, North Carrick and Coylton

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Girvan and South Carrick

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Changes Since 2007 Election

†In May 2008, Ayr West Cllr Elaine Little resigned from the Labour Party and became an Independent. In February 2012 she joined the Scottish National Party.
††On 27 May 2008 Ayr North Cllr Douglas Campbell, resigned from the Labour Party and became an Independent. He joined the Scottish National Party on 19 May 2011
†††On 16 November 2009 Ayr East Cllr Eddie Bulik resigned from the Labour Party and became an Independent.

References

Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - South Ayrshire".

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