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Barrhead, Liboside and Uplawmoor is one of the five wards used to elect members of the East Renfrewshire Council. It elects three Councillors.
Barrhead, Liboside and Uplawmoor is one of the five wards used to elect members of the East Renfrewshire Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Angela Convery (SNP) | Betty Wood Cunningham (Labour) | Danny Devlin (Ind.) | Paul Aitken (Conservative /Ind.) | ||||
| 2018 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Chris Lunday (SNP) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Paul Aitken (incumbent) | 5.1% | 345 | 462 | 470 | 472 | 491 | 536 | |||
| Alba | Neil Anderson | 1.1% | 74 | 91 | 96 | 96 | |||||
| SNP | Angela Convery (incumbent) | 24.3% | 1,639 | ||||||||
| Labour | Betty Wood Cunningham (incumbent) | 20.1% | 1,355 | ||||||||
| Independent | Danny Devlin (incumbent) | 26% | 1,753 | ||||||||
| SNP | Chris Lunday | 9.1% | 616 | 691 | 935 | 936 | 968 | 1,105 | 1,198 | 1,282 | |
| Conservative | Greg Turner† | 10.7% | 722 | 760 | 761 | 762 | 767 | 780 | 898 | ||
| Scottish Green | Frank Wilson | 3.4% | 229 | 258 | 272 | 273 | 285 | ||||
| Electorate: 14,485 Valid: 6,733 Spoilt: 133 [3] (1.93%) Quota: 1,347 Turnout: 47.2% | |||||||||||
† Greg Turner was suspended from the Conservatives on 21 April 2022, prior to the election, after being linked to derogatory online remarks against Catholics. [4] His name remained on the ballot paper, as the deadline for nominations had passed.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Danny Devlin (incumbent) [lower-alpha 1] | 26.02% | 1,840 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Paul Aitken† | 18.34% | 1,297 | 1,356 | 1,372 | 1,390 | 1,412 | 1,427 | |||
| SNP | Angela Convery | 16.95% | 1,199 | 1,242 | 1,242 | 1,330 | 1,347 | 1,357 | 1,358 | 2,371 | |
| SNP | Tommy Reilly (incumbent) [lower-alpha 1] | 14.97% | 1,059 | 1,125 | 1,126 | 1,167 | 1,205 | 1,218 | 1,219 | ||
| Labour | Betty Wood Cunningham (incumbent) [lower-alpha 1] | 14.42% | 1,020 | 1,111 | 1,113 | 1,160 | 1,506 | ||||
| Labour | Kenny Hay (incumbent) [lower-alpha 1] | 5.71% | 404 | 463 | 465 | 481 | |||||
| Scottish Green | David Allison | 3.11% | 220 | 244 | 249 | ||||||
| UKIP | John Ferguson | 0.48% | 34 | 43 | |||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 7,073 Spoilt: 116 Quota: 1,415 Turnout: 52.5% | |||||||||||
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