Saltcoats and Stevenston (ward)
Saltcoats and Stevenston is one of the nine wards used to elect members of the North Ayrshire council. It was originally created in 2007 and elected four Councillors; as its name suggests, it covered the adjoining small towns of Saltcoats on the Firth of Clyde coast and Stevenston just inland.[1] A national boundary review prior to the 2017 local elections saw the ward abolished in favour of two three-member wards for each town;[2][3] however this was reversed after the introduction of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018: North Ayrshire's wards were re-organised for the 2022 election with Saltcoats and Stevenston re-instated, now electing five members.[4][5] In 2020, the combined population of the two smaller wards was 25,513.[6][7]
Councillors
Election | Councillors | |||||||||||
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2007 | Willie Gibson (SNP) |
David Munn (Labour) |
Ronnie McNicol (Ind.) |
Alan Munro (Labour) |
4 seats | |||||||
2011 by-election |
Jim Montgomerie (Labour) | |||||||||||
2012 | ||||||||||||
2017 | Abolished | |||||||||||
2022 | Jean McClung (SNP) |
Jim Montgomerie (Labour) |
Davina McTeirnan (SNP) |
John Sweeney (Labour) |
Cameron Inglis (Conservative) |
Election Results
2022 election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
SNP | Jean McClung[note 1] | 29.3 | 1,908 | ||||||||
Labour | Jim Montgomerie[note 1] | 28.0 | 1,822 | ||||||||
Labour | John Sweeney[note 2] | 12.2 | 796 | 811 | 1,350 | ||||||
Conservative | Cameron Inglis | 11.4 | 742 | 745 | 772 | 776 | 814 | 828 | 857 | 1,103 | |
SNP | Davina McTeirnan[note 2] | 10.2 | 666 | 1,402 | |||||||
Independent | Ronnie McNicol[note 1] | 5.6 | 366 | 394 | 448 | 486 | 527 | 605 | 702 | ||
ISP | David Higgins | 1.7 | 111 | 120 | 127 | 206 | 219 | 235 | |||
Independent | Jimmy Miller[note 2] | 1.4 | 95 | 97 | 119 | 140 | 182 | ||||
Electorate: 16,951 Valid: 6,506 Spoilt: 202 Quota: 1,085 Turnout: 39.6% |
2012 Election
2012 North Ayrshire Council election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Labour | Jim Montgomerie | 36.16 | 1,926 | ||||||||
SNP | Willie Gibson (incumbent) | 23.36 | 1,244 | ||||||||
Independent | Ronnie McNicol (incumbent) | 13.20 | 703 | 771.3 | 789.5 | 796 | 816.8 | 884.6 | 993.8 | 1,210.1 | |
Labour | Alan Munro (incumbent) | 10.14 | 540 | 1,124.9 | |||||||
SNP | Nan Wallace | 9.03 | 481 | 510.5 | 642.1 | 650.6 | 667.4 | 688.1 | 729.5 | ||
Conservative | David Rocks | 3.62 | 193 | 198.8 | 199.5 | 201.1 | 205.8 | ||||
Scottish Senior Citizens | Jimmy Miller | 3.06 | 163 | 210.8 | 216.8 | 225.1 | 239.1 | 282.4 | |||
Socialist Labour | Debbie Anderson | 1.43 | 76 | 91.2 | 94.8 | 100.9 | |||||
Electorate: 15,274 Valid: 5,326 Spoilt: 138 Quota: 1,066 Turnout: 5,464 (34.87%) |
2007 Election
2007 North Ayrshire Council election
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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SNP | William Gibson | 1,629 | 22.4 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Ronnie McNicol | 1,362 | 18.8 | 2 | 3 | |
Labour | David Munn | 943 | 13.0 | 3 | 7 | |
Labour | Alan Munro | 902 | 12.4 | 4 | 7 | |
SNP | Nan Wallace | 691 | 9.5 | |||
Labour | Sam Taylor | 683 | 9.4 | |||
Conservative | Stewart Ferguson | 554 | 7.6 | |||
Independent | Margaret Walsh | 496 | 6.8 |
2011 by-election
A by-election arose in the Saltcoats and Stevenston ward following the resignation of the Labour Party's David Munn, and Jim Montgomorie held the seat for Labour on 25 August 2011.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Labour | Jim Montgomerie | 48.73 | 1,914 | 1,927 | 1,936 | 1,963 | 2,039 | |
SNP | Nan Wallace | 33.25 | 1,306 | 1,311 | 1,326 | 1,363 | 1,425 | |
Conservative | Chris Barr | 7.23 | 284 | 286 | 297 | 308 | 331 | |
Scottish Senior Citizens | Jimmy Miller | 5.37 | 211 | 217 | 222 | 240 | ||
Independent | Gerard Pollock | 2.90 | 114 | 117 | 123 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Bain | 1.43 | 56 | 57 | ||||
Socialist Labour | Louise McDaid | 1.09 | 43 | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | |||||||
Electorate: 11,039 Valid: 2,764 Spoilt: 42 Quota: 1,965 Turnout: 2,806 (25.42%) |
Notes
- Sitting councillor for Saltcoats.
- Sitting councillor for Stevenston.
References
- 4th Reviews - ward maps | North Ayrshire Overview, Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 2 May 2022
- 5th Reviews - ward maps | North Ayrshire | Ward 4 Stevenston, Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 2 May 2022
- 5th Reviews - ward maps | North Ayrshire | Ward 9 Saltcoats, Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 2 May 2022
- Boundary Change Extra: North Ayrshire, Ballot Box Scotland, 23 October 2021
- Andy Hamilton (5 March 2022). "North Ayrshire: Changes on the way as voters get set to go to polls". Irvine Times. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- Electoral Ward | Saltcoats, Scottish Government Statistics. Retrieved 2 May 2022
- Electoral Ward | Stevenston, Scottish Government Statistics. Retrieved 2 May 2022
- "Declaration of Results Report Saltcoats and Stevenston". North Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Saltcoats and Stevenston". North Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- "By Election Ward 4 - Declaration of Results". north-ayrshire.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 19 September 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2011.