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2017 East Ayrshire Council election

Elections to East Ayrshire Council took place on 4 May 2017 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV) – a form of proportional representation – in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.

For the second consecutive election, the Scottish National Party (SNP) were returned as the largest party with 14 seats but remained shy of an overall majority. Labour lost further ground but were again returned as the second-largest party with nine seats. The Conservatives made several gains to return six councillors while The Rubbish Party – standing in their first election – won their first seat. Two independent candidates were also elected.

The SNP took over control of the council as a minority administration having previously run the council in coalition with the Conservatives following the previous election in 2012.

Party	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	14	1	2	1	43.8	38.5	16,023	1.0
	9	0	5	5	28.1	25.2	10,456	16.2
	6	5	1	4	18.8	24.21	10,066	13.0
	2	1	0	1	6.3	9.0	3,347	1.3
	1	1	0	1	3.1	1.9	784	New
	0	0	0		0.0	1.6	674	New
	0	0	0		0.0	0.5	217	New
Total	32						41,567

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Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2012. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Seat	2012	2017
Annick		SNP	Eoghann MacColl		SNP	Gordon Jenkins
		Ward increased from 3 to 4		Conservative	John McFadzean
Kilmarnock North		SNP	Elaine Cowan		Conservative	Ian Grant
Kilmarnock East and Hurlford		Labour	Gordon Cree		Labour	Barry Douglas
	Labour	Drew McIntyre		Conservative	Jon Herd
Kilmarnock South		SNP	Hugh Ross		SNP	Claire Maitland
Irvine Valley		Conservative	John McFadzean		The Rubbish Party	Sally Cogley
	SNP	Bobby McDill			Ward decreased from 4 to 3
Ballochmyle		SNP	Stephanie Primrose		SNP	Claire Leitch
	Labour	David Shaw		Conservative	Alyson Simmons
Cumnock and New Cumnock		Labour	William Menzies		SNP	Jim McMahon
	Labour	Eric Ross		Conservative	Walter Young
	SNP	Kathy Morrice		SNP	Jacqui Todd
Doon Valley		Labour	Moira Pirie		Independent	Drew Filson

Following the Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements, Annick was increased from a three-member ward to a four-member ward. The SNP, Labour and independent candidate Ellen Freel retained the seats they had won at the previous election while the Conservatives won the extra seat.

Party	Candidate	FPv%	Count
	Conservative	John McFadzean	36.8	2,277
	SNP	Gordon Jenkins	17.4	1,076	1,097	1,098	1,098	1,161	1,993
	SNP	Eòghann MacColl (incumbent)	14.9	925	947	948	949	1,005
	Labour	John McGhee (incumbent)	13.5	837	1,078	1,088	1,100	1,154	1,207
	Independent	Ellen Freel (incumbent)	12.5	775	1,013	1,021	1,056	1,162	1,224
	Green	Jen Broadhurst	4.4	274	326	328	334
	Independent	Gordon Walker	0.3	20	61	66
	Scottish Libertarian	Amrik Singh	0.1	7	22
Electorate: 11,761 Valid: 6,191 Spoilt: 63 Quota: 1,239 Turnout: 53.2%

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Labour retained their only seat while the SNP retained one of their two seats and the Conservatives gained one seat from the SNP.

Party	Candidate	FPv%	Count
	SNP	Helen Coffey (incumbent)	36.9	1,381
	Conservative	Ian Grant	26.0	971
	Labour	Maureen McKay (incumbent)	23.1	865	885	900	924	1,300
	SNP	Elaine Cowan (incumbent)	12.9	481	884	886	893
	Scottish Libertarian	Lisa Murray	1.1	41	44	47
Electorate: 9,109 Valid: 3,739 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 935 Turnout: 41.5%

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The SNP (2), Labour and the Conservatives retained the seats they had won at the previous election.

Party	Candidate	FPv%	Count
	Conservative	Tom Cook (incumbent)	31.3	1,789
	Labour	Lillian Jones (incumbent)	23.5	1,344
	SNP	Iain Linton (incumbent)	20.5	1,171
	SNP	Douglas Reid (incumbent)	20.1	1,152
	Green	Elizabeth Brown	3.8	220
	Scottish Libertarian	Stef Johnstone	0.8	45
Electorate: 12,631 Valid: 5,721 Spoilt: 88 Quota: 1,145 Turnout: 46%

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The SNP retained both the seats they had won at the previous election while Labour retained one of their two seats and the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour.

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The SNP (2) and Labour retained the seats they had won at the previous election.

Party	Candidate	FPv%	Count
	SNP	Jim Todd (incumbent)	36.5	1,190
	Labour	John Knapp (incumbent)	32.9	1,073
	SNP	Clare Maitland	18.2	593	914
	Conservative	Billy McClure	11.7	382	387
	Scottish Libertarian	Caitlin O'Brien	0.7	24	29
Electorate: 8,028 Valid: 3,262 Spoilt: 62 Quota: 816 Turnout: 41.4%

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Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements, Irvine Valley was reduced in size from a four-member ward to a three-member ward. The SNP retained one of the two seats they had won at the previous election while Labour retained their only seat. The Conservatives lost their only seat and the Rubbish Party won a council seat for the first time.

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The SNP retained both the seats they had won at the previous election while Labour retained one of their two seats and the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour.

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Labour retained one of the three seats they won at the previous election while the SNP retained their only seat and both the SNP and the Conservatives gained one seat from Labour.

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The SNP retained their only seat while Labour retained one of their two seats and independent candidate Drew Filson gained a seat from Labour.

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