Location of the ward [1]
Cowal is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects three Councillors.
Cowal is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Bruce Marshall (Ind.) | Alex McNaughton (Ind.) | Ron Simon (SNP) | |||||
| 2012 | William Gordon Blair (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Yvonne McNeilly (Conservative) | Alan Reid (Liberal Democrats) | ||||||
| 2022 | William Sinclair (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
2022 Argyll and Bute Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| SNP | Gordon Blair (incumbent) | 33.3 | 1090 | |||||||
| Conservative | Yvonne McNeilly (incumbent) | 26.1 | 855 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | William Sinclair | 16.8 | 551 | 563.4 | 577.5 | 587.9 | 669.4 | 857.5 | ||
| SNP | Lachie MacQuarie | 8.6 | 282 | 503.2 | 503.5 | 532.5 | 566.0 | 596.3 | ||
| Labour | Mark Feinmann | 7.7 | 251 | 262.1 | 267.8 | 273.4 | 303.6 | |||
| Independent | Kenneth White | 5.2 | 170 | 174.5 | 179.3 | 201.3 | ||||
| ISP | Fiona Nelson | 2.4 | 78 | 83.9 | 85.0 | |||||
| Electorate: 5991 Valid: 3277 Spoilt: 64 Quota: 820 Turnout: 55.8% | ||||||||||
2017 Argyll and Bute Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SNP | William Gordon Blair (incumbent) | 26.3 | 918 | ||||
| Conservative | Yvonne McNeilly | 26.2 | 912 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Reid | 22.7 | 791 | 794.5 | 810.7 | 899.1 | |
| Independent | Alex McNaughton (incumbent) | 11.2 | 389 | 391.6 | 400.7 | 428.5 | |
| SNP | Alison Mulholland | 8.2 | 287 | 323.0 | 323.4 | 344.8 | |
| Labour | Susanna Rice | 5.4 | 187 | 188.2 | 191.3 | ||
| Electorate: Valid: 3,484 Spoilt: 71 Quota: 872 Turnout: 3,555 (60.3%) | |||||||
2012 Argyll and Bute Council election [6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | William Gordon Blair | 19.57% | 570 | 575 | 585 | 613 | 653 | 942 | ||||
| Independent | Alex McNaughton (incumbent) | 18.65% | 543 | 564 | 593 | 628 | 713 | 744 | ||||
| Independent | Bruce Marshall (incumbent) | 12.88% | 375 | 391 | 410 | 452 | 514 | 542 | 572.5 | 577.4 | 742.7 | |
| SNP | Ron Simon (incumbent) | 12.12% | 353 | 359 | 367 | 378 | 405 | |||||
| Conservative | Lewis Macdonald | 11.78% | 343 | 356 | 388 | 407 | 433 | 454 | 480 | 481.9 | ||
| Independent | Stephen Johnstone | 9.68% | 282 | 295 | 312 | 341 | ||||||
| Independent | Chris Talbot | 5.8% | 169 | 182 | 201 | |||||||
| Independent | Russell Weir | 5.19% | 151 | 173 | ||||||||
| Independent | Chris Lambert | 4.33% | 126 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 5,840 Valid: 2,912 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 729 Turnout: 2,952 (49.86%) | ||||||||||||
2007 Argyll and Bute Council election [7]
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Ron Simon | 1,127 | 29.8 | 1 | 1 | |
| Independent | Alex McNaughton | 880 | 23.3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Independent | Bruce Marshall | 745 | 19.7 | 3 | 5 | |
| Conservative | Dave Petrie | 491 | 13.0 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Trevor Oxborrow | 346 | 9.2 | |||
| Independent | Iain Jarvis Gow | 192 | 5.1 | |||
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