Location of the ward [1]
Dee and Glenkens is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects four Councillors.
Dee and Glenkens is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jane Maitland (Ind.) | Patsy Gilroy (Conservative) | Thomas Jacques (SNP) | |||||
| 2012 | Colin Wyper (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2017 | Dougie Campbell (SNP/Ind.) | |||||||
| 2022 | Andy McFarlane (SNP) | John Denerley (Conservative) | ||||||
2017 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Patsy Gilroy (incumbent)† | 33.47 | 1,547 | ||||||||
| SNP | Dougie Campbell | 19.56 | 904 | 909.31 | 916.81 | 921.32 | 934.82 | 967.08 | 1,121.83 | 1,250.09 | |
| Independent | Douglas Swan | 15.84 | 732 | 788.11 | 804.12 | 817.64 | 844.2 | 886.49 | 925.55 | ||
| Independent | Jane Maitland (incumbent) | 14.37 | 664 | 824.49 | 833.27 | 850.57 | 937.7 | 983.26 | 1,096.79 | 1,522.66 | |
| Scottish Green | Laura Moodie | 6.32 | 292 | 303.88 | 305.88 | 321.67 | 333.43 | 402.21 | |||
| Labour | Elizabeth Maxwell | 4.69 | 217 | 237.72 | 238.98 | 258.26 | 262.28 | ||||
| Independent | Andi Holmes | 2.60 | 120 | 144.52 | 157.28 | 174.57 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Andrew Metcalf | 1.84 | 85 | 106.74 | 111.99 | ||||||
| No description | John Thorn | 1.32 | 61 | 70.6 | |||||||
| Electorate: 8,239 Valid: 4,622 Spoilt: 34 Quota: 1,156 Turnout: 56.5 | |||||||||||
2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Colin Wyper | 36.51 | 1,473 | ||||||||
| Independent | Jane Maitland (incumbent) | 18.39 | 742 | 815.4 | 849.4 | 889.9 | 956.9 | 1,055.2 | |||
| Conservative | Patsy Gilroy (incumbent) | 18.05 | 728 | 780.9 | 795.4 | 801.3 | 831.9 | 849.4 | 868.4 | 1,021.2 | |
| SNP | Thomas Jacques (incumbent) | 11.48 | 463 | 525.4 | 536.2 | 567.4 | 600.3 | 693.6 | 701.6 | ||
| Labour | Marsali Caig | 7.06 | 285 | 355.6 | 369.2 | 386.4 | 422.2 | ||||
| Independent | Franca Bruno | 3.5 | 141 | 181.9 | 196.7 | 220.3 | |||||
| Scottish Green | James Smyth | 2.85 | 115 | 127.9 | 140.5 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | John Womersley | 2.16 | 87 | 116.3 | |||||||
| Electorate: 7,373 Valid: 4,034 Spoilt: 38 Quota: 1,009 Turnout: 4,072 (54.71%) | |||||||||||
2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Patsy Gilroy | 21.0 | 994 | 1,027 | 1,054 | 1,059.04 | 1,143.39 | 1,736.70 | |
| Independent | Jane Maitland | 20.9 | 989 | 1,062 | 1,200 | ||||
| SNP | Thomas Jacques | 19.5 | 924 | 970 | 1,043 | 1,045.25 | 1,122.86 | 1,188.13 | |
| Conservative | Chris Walker | 14.8 | 701 | 713 | 766 | 767.85 | 906.59 | ||
| Independent | Ian McConchie | 8.8 | 418 | 437 | 490 | 494.56 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Joan Mitchell | 8.1 | 384 | 437 | |||||
| Labour | John Syndney Burt | 6.7 | 319 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,463 Valid: 4,729 Spoilt: 68 Quota: 1,183 Turnout: 64.3% | |||||||||
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