The Mearns is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Location of the ward [1]
It takes its name from the Mearns, an old name for the former Kincardineshire (from the Scottish Gaelic A' Mhaoirne meaning "the Stewartry").
Councillors edit
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Bill Howatson (Liberal Democrats) |
Tom Fleming (Liberal Democrats) |
George Carr (Conservative) |
Jean Dick (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | Dave Stuart (Independent) | |||||||
| 2017 | Jeff Hutchison (Conservative) |
Leigh Wilson (SNP/ Independent/ Alba)[2][3] | ||||||
| 2020 | ||||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Alison Evison (Independent) |
Laurie Carnie (Conservative) |
Kevin Stelfox (SNP) | |||||
Election Results edit
2022 election edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| SNP | Kevin Stelfox | 29.0 | 1,677 | ||||||||||
| Conservative | George Carr (incumbent) | 21.0 | 1,217 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Alison Elizabeth McBean Evison[note 1] | 10.8 | 623 | 663 | 667 | 674 | 699 | 730 | 792 | 894 | 1,111 | 1,349 | |
| Conservative | Laurie Carnie | 10.7 | 619 | 625 | 668 | 681 | 689 | 695 | 724 | 741 | 825 | 924 | |
| Independent | Dave Stewart | 8.9 | 513 | 546 | 550 | 558 | 573 | 592 | 622 | 672 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Shona Ewen | 6.5 | 377 | 413 | 415 | 418 | 422 | 430 | 561 | 680 | 789 | ||
| Labour | Yvonne Allan | 5.8 | 336 | 392 | 393 | 396 | 399 | 412 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Douglas Fraser | 3.4 | 194 | 375 | 376 | 380 | 398 | 447 | 506 | ||||
| Alba | Leigh Wilson (incumbent) | 1.7 | 99 | 171 | 171 | 179 | 186 | ||||||
| Independent | David Allan Neill | 1.3 | 75 | 86 | 86 | 87 | |||||||
| Scottish Family | Diane Elizabeth Laurenson | 0.9 | 52 | 56 | 56 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 12,170 Valid: 5,782 Spoilt: 57 Quota: 1,157 Turnout: 47.7% | |||||||||||||
2017 Election edit
2017 Aberdeenshire Council election[6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | George Carr (incumbent) | 36.19 | 2,034 | |||||||
| SNP | Leigh Wilson | 16.03 | 901 | 914.41 | 935.75 | 936.02 | 997.27 | 1,045.19 | 1,735.42 | |
| SNP | Carole Wise | 12.46 | 700 | 705.36 | 715.36 | 715.57 | 751.47 | 815.73 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Bill Howatson (incumbent) | 10.66 | 599 | 701.79 | 767.94 | 772.58 | 863.53 | 1,100.31 | 1,145.13 | |
| Independent | Dave Stewart (incumbent) | 8.4 | 472 | 517.14 | 546.48 | 549.66 | 596.82 | |||
| Conservative | Jeff Hutchison | 8.2 | 461 | 1,116.16 | 1,141.52 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Karen Allan | 4.15 | 233 | 248.19 | 284.09 | 284.94 | ||||
| Labour | Patrick Coffield | 3.91 | 220 | 237.43 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,620 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,125 Turnout: 5,690 (48.3%) | ||||||||||
2012 Election edit
2012 Aberdeenshire Council election[7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | George Carr (incumbent) | 20.73% | 868 | |||||||
| SNP | Jean Dick (incumbent) | 20.70% | 867 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Bill Howatson (incumbent) | 20.03% | 839 | |||||||
| SNP | Robert Forbes | 10.91% | 457 | 458.3 | 482.2 | 482.4 | 564.1 | 595.9 | ||
| Independent | Dave Stewart | 10.29% | 431 | 433.2 | 434.5 | 434.7 | 530.9 | 684.8 | 890.5 | |
| Conservative | David Nelson | 8.93% | 374 | 394.1 | 395.1 | 395.3 | 423.8 | |||
| Labour | Gill Bayfield | 8.40% | 352 | 353.2 | 354.5 | 354.7 | ||||
| Electorate: 10,963 Valid: 4,188 Spoilt: 35 Quota: 838 Turnout: 4,223 (38.20%) | ||||||||||
2007 Election edit
2007 Aberdeenshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Jean Dick | 23.0 | 1,262 | ||||||||
| Conservative | George Carr | 20.5 | 1,123 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Tom Fleming | 16.6 | 909 | 940 | 945 | 1,046 | 1,144 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Bill Howatson | 13.8 | 759 | 775 | 778 | 815 | 850 | 879 | 1,021 | 1,291 | |
| Labour | Gill Bayfield | 7.1 | 392 | 406 | 407 | 442 | 455 | 459 | |||
| Independent | David Nelson | 7.1 | 391 | 404 | 407 | 432 | 596 | 601 | 659 | ||
| Independent | Robert Gairn Davidson | 6.2 | 342 | 355 | 358 | 403 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Kate Anderson | 5.6 | 306 | 336 | 338 | ||||||
| Electorate: Valid: 5,484 Spoilt: 48 Quota: 1,097 Turnout: 53.28% | |||||||||||
Notes edit
- ^ Sitting councillor for North Kincardine.
References edit
- ^ "5th Reviews - ward maps | Scottish Boundary Commission". www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk.
- ^ "Aberdeenshire councillor resigns from SNP to sit as an independent candidate".
- ^ "Alba party gains support of two Aberdeenshire councillors". 28 March 2021.
- ^ "Local Government Election 2022 results: Ward 19 - Mearns". Aberdeenshire Council. 6 May 2022. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report" (PDF). Aberdeenshire Council. 6 May 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Local Government Elections 2017 - Results - Aberdeenshire Council". Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Aberdeenshire Council - Local Election Results 2007". Archived from the original on 12 May 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2020.