Banff and District (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Banff and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Jack Mair (Liberal Democrats)		Ian Gray (SNP)		John Cox (Independent / SNP/ Independent) [2]
2012		Mike Roy (Conservative /Ind.)
2016			Iain Taylor (Conservative)
2017			Glen Reynolds (SNP)
2020
2022		Stewart Adams (Conservative)

Election Results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeenshire Council election

Banff and District − 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Glen Reynolds (incumbent)	31.9	1,265
	Conservative	Stewart Adams	27.8	1,103
	Independent	John Cox (incumbent)	19.8	787	834	862	892	921	950	1,023
	Independent	Mike Roy (incumbent)	7.2	285	299	318	326	368	401	487
	Labour	James Low	5.0	200	224	234	238	294	365
	Liberal Democrats	Sandy Leslie	3.8	150	167	181	199
	Scottish Green	Neil Woodward	2.6	105	182	185	214	239
	Alba	Iain Cameron	1.8	73	106	108
Electorate: 9,185  Valid: 3,968  Spoilt: 34  Quota: 993  Turnout: 43.6%

Source: ^{[3] [4]}

2017 Election

2017 Aberdeenshire Council election ^[5]

Banff and District - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Conservative	Mike Roy (incumbent)	36.18%	1,509
	Independent	John B. Cox (incumbent)	26.18%	1,092
	SNP	Glen Reynolds	25.15%	1,049
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Simpson	12.49%	521
Electorate: 9,187  Valid: 4,171  Spoilt: 53  Quota: 1,043  Turnout: 46.0%

2016 By-election

Banff By-election (3 November 2016) ^[6] - 1 Seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Conservative	Iain Taylor	44.0%	1170
	SNP	Glen Reynolds	36.2%	962
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Mason	19.8%	526
Turnout: 29.5%

2012 Election

2012 Aberdeenshire Council election ^[7]

Banff and District - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	SNP	John B. Cox (incumbent)†††††††††	31.24	1,037
	SNP	Ian Gray (incumbent)††††††††	24.19	803	959.7
	Conservative	Mike Roy	23.13	768	780.4	793.5	880.3
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Francis Mason	11.12	369	377.8	405.8	508.6
	Scottish Christian	Colin Murray	10.30	342	350.4	375.4
Electorate: 8,661  Valid: 3,319  Spoilt: 50  Quota: 830  Turnout: 3,369 (38.32%)

2007 Election

2007 Aberdeenshire Council election

Banff and District

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Ian Gray	24.0	1,088	1,092	1,103	1,142
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Mair	15.3	694	704	713	773	773	848	915	1,132
	Independent	John Cox††††††††	15.2	691	707	742	791	791	925	1,055	1,257
	Conservative	Neil Chalmers	13.6	616	626	640	666	666	741	792
	SNP	Kathryn Parr	11.0	500	509	525	554	558	609
	Independent	Sandy Buchan	8.4	383	398	438	475	475
	Scottish Green	Jonny Barton	6.6	298	301	319
	Independent	John Calder	3.8	172	180
	Independent	Ian Page	2.1	94
Electorate: -  Valid: 4,536  Spoilt: 105  Quota: 1,135  Turnout: 53.11%

References

1. "Scottish Boundary Commission | he Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland". Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
2. "End of the road for SNP councillor as party block his election bid".
3. "Local Government Election 2022 results: Ward 1 - Banff and District". Aberdeenshire Council. 6 May 2022. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
4. "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report" (PDF). Aberdeenshire Council. 6 May 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 May 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
5. "Local Government Elections 2017 - Results - Aberdeenshire Council". www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
6. "By-Elections results for Banff and District and Inverurie and District". www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk. 9 May 2018.
7. "Aberdeenshire Council - Local Election Results 2007". www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 12 May 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.