2007 Scottish local elections

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2007 Scottish local elections
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All 1,222 seats to Scottish councils
Turnout 52.8% (Increase3.2%)[1]
  First party Second party
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Leader Alex Salmond Jack McConnell
Party SNP Scottish Labour
Leader since 3 September 2004 22 November 2001
Last election 181 seats, 24.1% 509 seats, 32.6%
Seats won 363 348
Seat change Increase182 Decrease161
First preferences 585,885 590,085
First preferences (%) 27.9% 28.1%
Swing (pp) Increase3.8% Decrease4.5%
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Leader Nicol Stephen Annabel Goldie
Party Liberal Democrats Scottish Conservatives
Leader since 27 June 2005 31 October 2005
Last election 175 seats, 14.5% 122 seats, 15.1%
Seats won 166 143
Seat change Decrease9 Increase21
First preferences 266,693 327,591
First preferences (%) 12.7% 15.6%
Swing (pp) Decrease1.8% Increase0.5%
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Council controls post elections
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Colours denote the party with the most seats
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Colours denote the party with largest share of first preference votes by ward

The 2007 Scottish local elections were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England. All 32 Scottish councils had all their seats up for election – all Scottish councils are unitary authorities.

Background

This was the first election for local government in Great Britain to use the Single Transferable Vote (the system is used in Northern Ireland), as implemented by the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. The new electoral system resulted in most councils being under no overall control.[2]

eCounting fiasco

Scanners supplied by DRS Data Services Limited of Milton Keynes, in partnership with Electoral Reform Services (ERS), the trading arm of the Electoral Reform Society, were used to electronically count the paper ballots in both the Scottish council elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.[3][4]

Because of the fiasco in 2007 of holding parliamentary (Holyrood) and local elections simultaneously, the following Scottish local elections were held in 2012 instead of 2011.

Party performance

The Labour party lost control of all but two of its councils, Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, but received the largest number of votes, while the SNP were the main beneficiaries of the new voting system, picking over 180 new seats. The Scottish Greens elected their first-ever councillors, winning eight seats.[5][6]

Results

File:Scottish local elections 2007.svg
Colours denote the winning party with outright control
Summary of the May 2007 Scottish council election results
Party First-preference votes Councils 2003 seats 2007 seats
Count Of total (%) Change Count Change Count Of total (%) Count Of total (%) Change
No overall control N/A 27 Increase20 N/A N/A
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] 590,085 28.1 Decrease4.5% 2 Steady N/A 348 28.5% Decrease161
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP 585,885 27.9 Increase3.8% 1 Steady N/A 363 29.7% Increase182
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservatives" | [[Scottish Conservatives|Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/shortname]] 327,591 15.6 Increase0.5% 2 Steady N/A 143 11.7% Increase21
style="width: 5px; background-color: #fdbb30;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" | Liberal Democrats 266,693 12.7 Decrease1.8% 0 Steady N/A 166 13.6% Decrease9
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent 228,894 10.9 Increase0.8% 0 Steady N/A 192[lower-alpha 1] 15.7% Decrease38
Other 102,897 4.9 Increase1.3% 0 Steady N/A 10[lower-alpha 2] 0.8% Increase6
Total 2,099,945 100.0 ±0.0 32 Steady 1,222 1,222 1,222 100.00 Steady

Councils

The notional results in the following table are based on a document that John Curtice and Stephen Herbert (Professors at the University of Strathclyde) produced on 3 June 2005, calculating the effect of the introduction of the Single Transferable Vote on the 2003 Scottish local elections.[7]

Council 2003 result Notional control
(based on 2003 results)		 2007 result Details
Aberdeen City style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (LD + Con) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (LD + SNP) Details
Aberdeenshire style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (LD + Ind) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (LD + Con) Details
Angus style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Ind + Con + LD + Lab) Details
Argyll and Bute style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician" | Independent Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Ind + SNP) Details
Clackmannanshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority) Details
Dumfries and Galloway style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority[lower-alpha 3]) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Con + LD) Details
Dundee City style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lab + LD+ Con) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lab + LD+ Con) Details
East Ayrshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Scottish National Party" | SNP (SNP minority) Details
East Dunbartonshire style="width: 5px; background-color: #fdbb30;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" | Liberal Democrats (LD minority[lower-alpha 4]) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lab + Con) Details
East Lothian style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP + LD) Details
East Renfrewshire style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lab + LD) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lab + LD + Ind + Con) Details
City of Edinburgh style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority[lower-alpha 5]) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (LD + SNP) Details
Falkirk style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP + Ind + Con) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Lab + Ind + Con) Details
Fife style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority[lower-alpha 6]) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (LD + SNP) Details
Glasgow City style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Details
Highland style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Ind + SNP) Details
Inverclyde style="width: 5px; background-color: #fdbb30;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats" | Liberal Democrats NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority) Details
Midlothian style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority) Details
Moray style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Ind + Con) Details
Na h-Eileanan Siar style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
North Ayrshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority) Details
North Lanarkshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Details
Orkney style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
Perth and Kinross style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP + LD + Ind) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP + LD) Details
Renfrewshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP + LD) Details
Scottish Borders style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Ind + Con) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (Ind + Con + LD) Details
Shetland style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Independent style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | Independent Details
South Ayrshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservatives" | [[Scottish Conservatives|Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/shortname]] (Con minority[lower-alpha 7]) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservatives" | [[Scottish Conservatives|Template:Scottish Conservatives/meta/shortname]] (Con minority) Details
South Lanarkshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority) Details
Stirling style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority[lower-alpha 8]) NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] (Lab minority) Details
West Dunbartonshire style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] Labour style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP + Ind) Details
West Lothian style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Scottish Labour/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Scottish Labour" | [[Scottish Labour|Template:Scottish Labour/meta/shortname]] NOC style="width: 5px; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control" | No overall control (SNP + Ind) Details

Notes

  1. ↑ 193 according to the BBC website
  2. ↑ 8 Scottish Greens, 1 Scottish Socialist and 1 Solidarity councillor. Separate vote figures not found
  3. ↑ Labour minority control. The council was previously run by a coalition of Scottish Liberal Democrats, Independents and the SNP.
  4. ↑ Liberal Democrats lack a majority (LD: 12 councillors; opposition: 12 councillors
  5. ↑ Labour lacked a majority after by-election loss to the SNP (Lab: 29 councillors; opposition: 29 councillors)
  6. ↑ Labour minority administration
  7. ↑ Conservative control, on a cut of the cards (Con: 15 councillors; opposition: 15 councillors)
  8. ↑ Labour lacked a majority after by-election loss to the SNP (Lab: 11 councillors; opposition: 11 councillors)

References

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  6. ↑ 2007 Scottish Local Elections
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