Location of the ward [1]
Clackmannanshire West is one of the five wards used to elect members of the Clackmannanshire council. It elects four Councillors.
Clackmannanshire West is one of the five wards used to elect members of the Clackmannanshire council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Tina Murphy (SNP) | Janis Paterson (SNP) | Eddie Carrick (Labour /Ind.) | George Matchett (Labour) | ||||
| 2011 | ||||||||
| 2012 | Les Sharp (SNP) | Jim Sralker (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Darren Lee (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | Phil Fairlie (SNP) | Graham Lindsay (SNP) | Mark McLuckie (Labour) | |||||
2022 Clackmannanshire Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| SNP | Phil Fairlie | 24.02% | 875 | ||
| Conservative | Darren Lee | 22.78% | 830 | ||
| SNP | Graham Lindsay | 19.63% | 715 | 844 | |
| Labour | Mark McLuckie | 21.60% | 787 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Laura Quin | 2.72% | 99 | 101 | |
| Scottish Green | Cara Quinn | 4.04% | 147 | 153 | |
| Labour | Daniel Rooney | 5.22% | 190 | 192 | |
| Electorate: 8,936 Valid: 3,643 Spoilt: 111 Quota: 729 Turnout: 42.0% | |||||
2017 Clackmannanshire Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Darren Lee | 21.4 | 808 | |||||||
| Labour | George Matchett (incumbent) | 19.9 | 753 | 763.4 | ||||||
| SNP | Tina Margaret Murphy (incumbent) | 18.6 | 704 | 705.5 | 705.9 | 717.9 | 722.3 | 766.5 | ||
| SNP | Les Sharp (incumbent) | 17.8 | 675 | 675.9 | 676 | 680.1 | 701.2 | 751.5 | 761.4 | |
| Labour | Craig Miller | 12.6 | 478 | 482.2 | 488.7 | 505.2 | 541.7 | 590.6 | 591.2 | |
| Scottish Green | Cara Quinn | 4.2 | 159 | 161.4 | 161.6 | 177.4 | 215.9 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Jim Hay | 2.9 | 112 | 122.6 | 122.8 | 142.9 | ||||
| Independent | Thomas Joshua Harrison | 2.2 | 85 | 91.4 | 91.5 | |||||
| Electorate: 8,726 Valid: 3,774 Spoilt: 97 Quota: 755 Turnout: 3,871 (44.36%) | ||||||||||
2012 Clackmannanshire Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | George Matchett (incumbent) | 32.37% | 1,037 | |||||||
| SNP | Tina Murphy (incumbent) | 21.63% | 693 | |||||||
| Labour | Jim Stalker | 14.76% | 473 | 781.2 | ||||||
| SNP | Les Sharp | 12.58% | 403 | 409.7 | 416.9 | 422.9 | 443.1 | 474.5 | 767.1 | |
| SNP | Janis Paterson (incumbent) | 7.21% | 231 | 247.4 | 260.9 | 298.2 | 325.3 | 362.4 | ||
| Conservative | Bill Mason | 7.21% | 231 | 236.3 | 249.8 | 250.8 | 293.6 | |||
| Independent | Eddie Carrick (incumbent) | 4.24% | 136 | 147.1 | 168.2 | 170.8 | ||||
| Electorate: 7,807 Valid: 3,204 Spoilt: 58 Quota: 641 Turnout: 3,262 (41.04%) | ||||||||||
2007 Clackmannanshire Council election [6]
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | George Matchett | 1,094 | 25.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| SNP | Tina Murphy | 1,027 | 24.0 | 2 | 1 | |
| Labour | Eddie Carrick† | 824 | 19.3 | 3 | 2 | |
| SNP | Janis Paterson | 652 | 15.3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Conservative | Bill Mason | 369 | 8.6 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Iftikhar Ahmed | 309 | 7.2 | |||
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