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.
Banff and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jack Mair (Liberal Democrats) | Ian Gray (SNP) | John Cox (Independent / SNP/ Independent) [2] | |||
| 2012 | Mike Roy (Conservative) | |||||
| 2017 | Glen Reynolds (SNP) | |||||
| 2022 | Stewart Adams (Conservative) | |||||
2022 Aberdeenshire Council election [3]
| 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 | 834.7 | 862.3 | 892.8 | 921.1 | 950.5 | 1,023.1 | |
| Independent | Mike Roy (incumbent) | 7.2% | 285 | 299.8 | 318.7 | 326.2 | 368.7 | 401.9 | 487.5 | |
| Labour | James Low | 5% | 200 | 224.3 | 234.9 | 238.5 | 294.8 | 365.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Sandy Leslie | 3.8% | 150 | 167.4 | 181.4 | 199.7 | ||||
| Green | Neil Woodward | 2.6% | 105 | 182.8 | 185.1 | 214.8 | 239 | |||
| Alba | Iain Cameron | 1.8% | 73 | 106.3 | 108.7 | |||||
| Electorate: 9,185 Valid: 3,968 Spoilt: 34 Quota: 993 Turnout: 4,002 (43.6%) | ||||||||||
2017 Aberdeenshire Council election [4]
| 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% | ||||
2012 Aberdeenshire Council election [5]
| 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 Aberdeenshire Council election
| 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 | ||||
| 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% | |||||||||||
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