Location of the ward [1]
Brechin and Edzell is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Angus Council. It elects three Councillors.
Brechin and Edzell is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Angus Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Mairi Evans (SNP) | Ruth Leslie Melville (Ind.) | Bob Myles (Ind.) | |||||
| 2012 | Jim Houston (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Kenny Braes (SNP) | Gavin Nicol (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Chris Beattie (SNP) | Jill Scott (Ind.) | ||||||
2022 Angus Council election [2] [3] [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Alison Andrews | 5.95% | 234 | 293 | 363 | |
| Labour | Dawn Barrowman | 7.20% | 283 | 356 | 390 | |
| SNP | Chris Beattie | 34.10% | 1,341 | |||
| Independent | Jill Scott | 20.44% | 804 | 914 | 1,020 | |
| Conservative | Gavin Nicol (incumbent) | 32.32% | 1,271 | |||
| Electorate: 8,877 Valid: 3,933 Spoilt: 54 Quota: 984 Turnout: [6] | ||||||
2017 Angus Council election [7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Gavin Nicol | 30.42% | 1,281 | |||||||
| Independent | Bob Myles (incumbent) | 18.81% | 792 | 882 | 930 | 977 | 988 | 988 | 1,544 | |
| SNP | Kenny Braes | 18.10% | 762 | 765 | 776 | 794 | 1,055 | |||
| Independent | Jill Scott | 17.48% | 736 | 777 | 812 | 882 | 906 | 907 | ||
| Independent | Paul Wright* | 7.31% | 308 | 310 | 311 | 332 | ||||
| Labour | Marjory Smith | 4.82% | 203 | 216 | 241 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Alison Andrews | 3.06% | 129 | 153 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,211 Spoilt: 69 Quota: 1,053 Turnout: 47.4% | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Mairi Evans (incumbent) | 35.36 | 1,145 | |||||
| Independent | Bob Myles (incumbent) | 19.49 | 631 | 641.8 | 666.9 | 878.2 | ||
| Conservative | Jane Ferguson | 15.01 | 486 | 495.7 | 533.4 | 617.7 | 645.6 | |
| SNP | Jim Houston | 14.18 | 459 | 736.6 | 752.9 | 799.1 | 812.1 | |
| Independent | Douglas Murray | 12.04 | 390 | 400.8 | 429.4 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Janet Cowan | 3.92 | 127 | 133.1 | ||||
| Electorate: 8,386 Valid: 3,238 Spoilt: 62 Quota: 810 Turnout: 3,300 (38.61%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Ruth Leslie Melville | 971 | 22.1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Independent | Bob Myles | 798 | 18.1 | 2 | 6 | |
| SNP | Mairi Evans | 765 | 17.4 | 3 | 8 | |
| SNP | Joy Mowatt | 706 | 16.1 | |||
| Conservative | Elaine Milne | 373 | 8.5 | |||
| Independent | David Adam | 313 | 7.1 | |||
| Labour | Ron Thoms | 286 | 6.5 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Helen Fleming | 185 | 4.2 | |||
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