Clackmannanshire Council election, 2017

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Clackmannanshire Council election, 2017
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All 18 seats to Clackmannanshire Council
10 seats needed for a majority

 First partySecond partyThird party
 
LeaderLes SharpDave ClarkBill Mason
Party SNP Labour Conservative
Leader's seatClackmannanshire CentralClackmannanshire NorthClackmannanshire East
Last election8 seats, 46.1%8 seats, 38.1%1 seat, 9.9%
Seats before881
Seats won855
Seat change-Decrease2.svg3Increase2.svg4
Map of Clackmannanshire Council after 2017 Scottish Local Election.png
The 5 multi-member ward. (Colour of ward represents the political party that received most votes in that ward)
Council Leader before election

Gary Womersley
SNP

Council Leader after election

Les Sharp
SNP

The Clackmannanshire Council election of 2017 was held on 4 May 2017, on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. It was the third successive election to run under the STV electoral system and used the five wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 18 councillors being elected.

The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat organizations or constituencies. Under STV, an elector (voter) has a single vote that is initially allocated to their most preferred candidate. Votes are totalled and a quota derived. If their candidate achieves quota, he/she is elected and in some STV systems any surplus vote is transferred to other candidates in proportion to the voters' stated preferences. If more candidates than seats remain, the bottom candidate is eliminated with his/her votes being transferred to other candidates as determined by the voters' stated preferences. These elections and eliminations, and vote transfers if applicable, continue until there are only as many candidates as there are unfilled seats. The specific method of transferring votes varies in different systems.

Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 act of the Scottish Parliament making local elections be run under the single transferable vote

The Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which provided, amongst other things, for the election of councillors to the local authorities in Scotland by the single transferable vote system.

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Result

As Scottish Labour lost three seats and the Scottish National Party held all of theirs, the SNP became the largest party for the first time. The Scottish Conservatives unexpectedly won a seat in every ward, equalling their representation on the council with that of Labour. [1]

The Scottish National Party is a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence. It is the second-largest political party by membership in the United Kingdom, behind the Labour Party and ahead of the Conservative Party, it is the third-largest by overall representation in the House of Commons, behind the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, and it is the largest political party in Scotland, where it has the most seats in the Scottish Parliament and 35 out of the 59 Scottish seats in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current Scottish National Party leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has served as First Minister of Scotland since November 2014.

During the first meeting of the new council on 18 May, however, an agreement was not reached on how to form an administration. [2] In June 2017 a minority SNP administration was formed.

Clackmannanshire Local Election Result 2017
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  SNP 800-44.4437.216,525-8.84
  Labour 5-3-327.7827.874,887-10.25
  Conservative 54-+427.7824.994,382+15.11
  Scottish Green 000-06.511,141+6.51
  Liberal Democrats 000-03.15553+2.26
  Independent 001-100.4885-4.57

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Ward results

Clackmannanshire West

Clackmannanshire West - 4 seats [3]
PartyCandidate% 1st PrefCount 1Count 2Count 3Count 4Count 5Count 6Count 7
Conservative Darren Lee21.4808      
Labour George Matchett (incumbent)19.9753763.4     
SNP Tina Margaret Murphy (incumbent)18.6704705.5705.9717.9722.3766.5 
SNP Les Sharp (incumbent)17.8675675.9676680.1701.2751.5761.4
Labour Craig Miller12.6478482.2488.7505.2541.7590.6591.2
Scottish Green Cara Quinn4.2159161.4161.6177.4215.9  
Liberal Democrats Jim Hay2.9112122.6122.8142.9   
Independent Thomas Joshua Harrison2.28591.491.5    
Electorate: 8,726  Valid: 3,774  Spoilt: 97  Quota: 755  Turnout: 3,871 (44.36%)

    Clackmannanshire North

    Clackmannanshire North - 4 seats [3]
    PartyCandidate% 1st PrefCount 1Count 2Count 3Count 4Count 5Count 6Count 7Count 8
    Conservative Martha Benny24969       
    SNP Archie Drummond (incumbent)†16.6672675.5709.8745.3909.8   
    SNP Donald Balsille (incumbent)16.3660666.5690.6711.5841.6   
    Labour Dave Clark (incumbent)15.9644678.7698.2764.6773.8787.9794.51,196.3
    Labour Bobby McGill (incumbent)10.7432446.7453.8507.7513.7526.4530.2 
    SNP Helen Lewis7.2292293.6313323.1    
    Liberal Democrats Damian Sherwood-Johnson5.1206240.7283.9     
    Scottish Green Jack Gervaise3.8157167.1      
    Electorate: 8,371  Valid: 4,032  Spoilt: 127  Quota: 807  Turnout: 4,159 (49.68%)

      Clackmannanshire Central

      Clackmannanshire Central - 3 seats [3]
      PartyCandidate% 1st PrefCount 1Count 2Count 3Count 4Count 5Count 6
      Labour Derek Stewart (incumbent)32.8846     
      SNP Phil Fairlie27.7714     
      Conservative Mike Watson16.6428443.4444.6464.5550.6687.3
      SNP Jo Wilkinson10.5273281.7337.8393.3438.2 
      Labour Graham Watt (incumbent)7.1183321.9324.6356.4  
      Scottish Green John Short5.1133139.1143.7   
      Electorate: 6,297  Valid: 2,577  Spoilt: 79  Quota: 645  Turnout: 2,656 (42.18%)

        Clackmannanshire South

        Clackmannanshire South - 4 seats [3]
        PartyCandidate% 1st PrefCount 1Count 2Count 3Count 4Count 5Count 6Count 7
        SNP Craig Holden (incumbent)22.4831      
        Conservative Chris Dixon††19.6725726.3759.4    
        SNP Ellen Forson (incumbent)17.5649716.9721721.67307371000.2
        Labour Kenneth Earle (incumbent)17.3640644665.2817.8   
        Scottish Green Bryan Quinn15.1560569.5583.5587601.8621.3 
        Labour Christine Sinclair5.5205207.1212.2214.2   
        Liberal Democrats John Shier Biggam2.28484.3     
        Electorate: 8,976  Valid: 3,694  Spoilt: 86  Quota: 739  Turnout: 3,780 (42.11%)

          Clackmannanshire East

          Clackmannanshire East - 3 seats [3]
          PartyCandidate% 1st PrefCount 1Count 2Count 3Count 4
          Conservative Bill Mason411452   
          Labour Kathleen Martin (incumbent)19.9706839.9868.8882.2
          SNP Graham Lindsay19.5692699.5724.71079.9
          SNP Jane McTaggart10.3363368.9390.3 
          Liberal Democrats Anne Anderson4.3151345.3406.6414.8
          Scottish Green Marion Robertson3.7132160.2  
          Electorate: 6,607  Valid: 3496  Spoilt: 40  Quota: 875  Turnout: 3,536 (53.52%)

            Changes since 2017

            By-elections since 2017

            Clackmannanshire North By-election (1 March 2018)<http://www.clacks.gov.uk/document/5739.pdf>
            PartyCandidate% 1st PrefCount 1Count 2Count 3Count 4Count 5
            SNP Helen Lewis36.87697958189801,128
            Conservative Alex Stewart31.5658661693784 
            Labour Afifa Khanam23.6493513538  
            Liberal Democrats Damian Sherwood-Johnson4.084101   
            Scottish Green Marion Robertson3.574    
            Electorate: 8,457  Valid: 2,078  Spoilt: 14  Quota: 1,040  Turnout: 2,092 (27.4%)

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              1. ↑ "Clacks election result". Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
              2. ↑ "SNP and Labour freeze out Tories in East Renfrewshire". BBC News. 19 May 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
              3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ward results breakdown" (PDF). Clackmannanshire Council. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
              4. ↑ http://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/15794051.Councillor_Drummond_cites_personal_reason_for_resignation/
              5. ↑ http://www.clacks.gov.uk/council/wards/clackmannanshiresouth/13/
              6. ↑ "Clackmannanshire Council election - 2012-05-03 | ClacksWeb". Clacks.gov.uk. 2012-05-03. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
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