Location of the ward [1]
Castle Douglas and Crocketford is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects three Councillors.
Castle Douglas and Crocketford is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | George Nicol Prentice (Ind.) | Peter Duncan (Conservative) | Brian Collins (SNP) | |||||
| 2012 | Finlay Carson (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2017 | Ian Howie (Ind.) | David James (Conservative) | John Young (SNP) | |||||
| 2022 | Pauline Drysdale (Conservative) | |||||||
2017 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | David James††† | 35.79 | 1,346 | ||||||
| Independent | Iain Howie | 23.96 | 901 | 1,033.99 | |||||
| SNP | John Young | 20.10 | 756 | 761.72 | 772.23 | 837.81 | 928.28 | 1,099.88 | |
| Independent | George Nicol Prentice (incumbent) | 9.70 | 365 | 451.66 | 496.45 | 522.15 | 628.9 | ||
| Labour | Lucy McKie | 7.02 | 264 | 307.03 | 316.87 | 354.5 | |||
| Green | Paul Taylorson | 3.43 | 129 | 147.66 | 155.77 | ||||
| Electorate: 7,433 Valid: 3,761 Spoilt: 41 Quota: 941 Turnout: 50.6 | |||||||||
2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Conservative | Finlay Carson | 27.08 | 904 | |||||
| Independent | George Nicol Prentice (incumbent) | 23.88 | 797 | 813 | 826.5 | |||
| SNP | Brian Collins (incumbent) | 23.88 | 797 | 800 | 811.2 | 811.5 | 899.6 | |
| Labour | Daniel Scheffer | 10.04 | 335 | 350.6 | 376.8 | 376.9 | 430.9 | |
| Green | Paul Taylorson | 6.05 | 202 | 203.2 | 229.4 | 229.6 | ||
| Conservative | Gary Wardell | 5.90 | 197 | 235 | 249.9 | 250.2 | 265 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Metcalf | 3.18 | 106 | 109 | ||||
| Electorate: 8,014 Valid: 3,338 Spoilt: 34 Quota: 835 Turnout: 3,372 (41.65%) | ||||||||
2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Peter Duncan | 32.3 | 1,560 | ||||||
| SNP | Brian Collins | 23.9 | 1,152 | 1,165.84 | 1,251.30 | ||||
| Independent | George Nicol Prentice | 18.7 | 904 | 940.99 | 1,006.35 | 1,016.27 | 1,180.89 | 1,536.89 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alison Mary Barratt | 9.8 | 471 | 487.57 | 606.47 | 620.16 | 719.30 | ||
| Labour | Mike McLurg | 9.4 | 451 | 456.22 | |||||
| Conservative | Alex Zimmerman | 5.9 | 285 | 527.80 | 543.62 | 546.82 | |||
| Electorate: 7,983 Valid: 4,823 Spoilt: 84 Quota: 1,206 Turnout: 61.5% | |||||||||
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