Location of the ward [1]
Annandale North is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects four Councillors.
Annandale North is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Ted Brown (Labour) | Michael Dickie (Liberal Democrats) | Gail MacGregor (Conservative) | Roger Brian Grant (Conservative) | ||||
| 2012 | Stephen Thompson (SNP) | Peter Diggle (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2017 | Adam Wilson (Labour) | Douglas Fairburn (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Carolyne Wilson (Labour) | Lyne Davis (Conservative) | ||||||
2017 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Douglas Fairbairn (incumbent) | 28.76 | 1,573 | ||||
| Conservative | Gail McGregor (incumbent) | 25.72 | 1,407 | ||||
| SNP | Stephen Thompson (incumbent) | 23.91 | 1,308 | ||||
| Labour | Adam Wilson | 16.91 | 925 | 998.84 | 1,055.83 | 1,126.99 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Lisa Courts | 4.70 | 257 | 356.37 | 438.41 | 500.94 | |
| Electorate: 11,540 Valid: 5,470 Spoilt: 69 Quota: 1,095 Turnout: 47.4 | |||||||
2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Ted Brown (incumbent)† | 19.59 | 845 | 923 | ||||||
| SNP | Stephen Thompson | 16.78 | 724 | 768 | 782.5 | 796.9 | 799.1 | 800.4 | 1,067.9 | |
| Conservative | Peter Diggle†† | 15.11 | 652 | 690 | 693.1 | 875.4 | ||||
| Green | Alis Ballance | 14.26 | 615 | 673 | 687.3 | 755.7 | 759.4 | 761.4 | ||
| Conservative | Gail MacGregor (incumbent) | 13.07 | 564 | 641 | 645.5 | 885.3 | ||||
| Conservative | Roger Brian Grant (incumbent) | 12.31 | 531 | 566 | 568.7 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Hugh Young | 8.88 | 383 | |||||||
| Electorate: 10,175 Valid: 4,314 Spoilt: 34 Quota: 863 Turnout: 4,348 (42.4%) | ||||||||||
2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Roger Brian Grant | 18.5 | 1,011 | 1,019 | 1,146 | |||||
| Labour | Ted Brown | 15.0 | 818 | 843 | 848 | 848.95 | 889.04 | 1,002.09 | 1,095.45 | |
| Conservative | Gail MacGregor | 13.7 | 751 | 754 | 834 | 866.58 | 907.39 | 959.48 | 1,089.89 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Dickie | 13.7 | 749 | 786 | 805 | 808.86 | 862.00 | 1,043.31 | 1,328.72 | |
| SNP | Johanne Lydia Wood | 13.0 | 710 | 733 | 739 | 739.82 | 775.95 | |||
| Independent | Billy Lockhart | 10.0 | 547 | 559 | 578 | 583.85 | 796.26 | 934.26 | ||
| Independent | Jean Hamilton Purves | 8.2 | 446 | 461 | 467 | 470.72 | ||||
| Conservative | Neil MacInnes | 5.1 | 277 | 278 | ||||||
| Green | Alis Ballance | 2.9 | 159 | |||||||
| Electorate: 9,951 Valid: 5,468 Spoilt: 84 Quota: 1,094 Turnout: 55.8% | ||||||||||
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