Location of the ward [1]
Denny and Banknock is one of the nine wards used to elect members of the Falkirk Council. It elects four Councillors.
Denny and Banknock is one of the nine wards used to elect members of the Falkirk Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jim Blackwood (Labour) | Alexander John Waddell (Ind.) | John McNally (SNP) | Martin David Oliver (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | Brian McCabe (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2015 by | Paul Garner (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Nigel Harris (Conservative) | Fiona Collie (SNP) | ||||||
| 2022 | Alf Kelly (Labour) | Brian McCabe (Ind.) | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||||||||
| SNP | Paul Garner (incumbent) | 1,868 | ||||||||
| SNP | Fiona Collie (incumbent) | 1,084 | 1,571.69 | |||||||
| Conservative | Nigel Harris (incumbent) | 1,026 | 1,033.67 | 1,041.5 | 1,056.96 | 1,073.66 | 1,092.16 | |||
| Labour | Alf Kelly | 889 | 903.71 | 935.17 | 1,011.42 | 1,368.98 | ||||
| Independent | Brian McCabe | 860 | 890.68 | 929.43 | 1,031.31 | 1,072.02 | 1,106.23 | 1,610.76 | ||
| Labour | James Marshall | 423 | 433.27 | 444.87 | 461.56 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Rachel Hart | 200 | 223.01 | 346.01 | ||||||
| Electorate: 15,534 Valid: 6,350 Spoilt: 128 Quota: 1, 271 Turnout: 43.8% | ||||||||||
2017 Falkirk Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| SNP | Paul Garner (incumbent) | 26.3 | 1,664 | ||||||||||
| Labour | Jim Blackwood (incumbent) | 15.27 | 965 | 976.27 | 976.51 | 996.75 | 1,019.23 | 1,020.57 | 1,233.78 | 1,359.61 | |||
| Conservative | Nigel Harris | 14.49 | 916 | 918.16 | 918.16 | 924.16 | 950.16 | 950.39 | 964.43 | 1,068.91 | 1,086.46 | 1,314.59 | |
| SNP | Fiona Collie | 13.98 | 884 | 1,200.27 | 1,210.99 | 1,255.15 | 1,274.11 | ||||||
| Independent | Brian McCabe (incumbent) | 10.87 | 687 | 719.13 | 722.85 | 737.57 | 780.57 | 782.45 | 811.89 | 984.92 | 1,002.97 | ||
| Independent | Alexander John Waddell | 8.26 | 522 | 528.47 | 529.47 | 537.7 | 615.95 | 616.69 | 640.97 | ||||
| Labour | Khalid Hamid | 4.97 | 314 | 322.87 | 323.11 | 333.35 | 355.83 | 356.51 | |||||
| Independent | Anne Montgomery | 3.65 | 231 | 232.92 | 235.16 | 247.4 | |||||||
| Scottish Green | Cheryl Brind | 1.89 | 119 | 122.84 | 125.08 | ||||||||
| Solidarity | Sean Mellon | 0.3 | 19 | 21.64 | |||||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 6,321 Spoilt: 95 Quota: 1,265 Turnout: 6,416 (44.1%) | |||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Paul Garner | 69.1% | 2,576 | |
| Labour | Andrew Bell | 14.7% | 549 | |
| Conservative | David Grant | 11.6% | 431 | |
| Scottish Green | Brian Capaloff | 4.6% | 170 | |
| Electorate: 14,462 Valid: 3,726 Spoilt: 34 Quota: 1,864 Turnout: 3,760 (26.1%) | ||||
2012 Falkirk Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | John McNally (incumbent)† | 28.23 | 1,502 | |||||||
| Labour | Jim Blackwood (incumbent) | 22.35 | 1,189 | |||||||
| Independent | Brian McCabe | 11.69 | 622 | 676.9 | 680.9 | 714.1 | 801.2 | 977.6 | 1,133.3 | |
| SNP | Martin D. Oliver(incumbent) | 10.73 | 571 | 870.1 | 879.4 | 900.1 | 972.5 | 1,062.6 | 1,148 | |
| Labour | Terrie Hay | 8.33 | 443 | 459 | 539.7 | 563.2 | 614.7 | 684.9 | ||
| Independent | Alexander John Waddell (incumbent) | 7.72 | 411 | 433.1 | 439.6 | 480.2 | 539.5 | |||
| Independent | Khalid Hamid | 7.27 | 387 | 398.9 | 406.4 | 428.2 | ||||
| Conservative | David Grant | 3.70 | 197 | 200.7 | 204.5 | |||||
| Electorate: 12,350 Valid: 5,321 Spoilt: 95 Quota: 1,065 Turnout: 5,416 (39.45%) | ||||||||||
2007 Falkirk Council election [6]
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | John McNally | 2,093 | 29.1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Jim Blackwood | 1,707 | 23.7 | 2 | 1 | |
| Independent | Alexander John Waddell | 991 | 13.8 | 3 | 8 | |
| SNP | Martin David Oliver | 789 | 11.0 | 4 | 8 | |
| Labour | Khalid Hamid | 775 | 10.8 | |||
| Conservative | Alistair Hislop | 384 | 5.3 | |||
| Independent | Fiona Buchanan | 238 | 3.3 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Danny Quinlan | 134 | 1.9 | |||
| Independent | Wesley Edmund | 83 | 1.2 | |||
Falkirk is one of 32 unitary authority council areas of Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 1996 by way of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 from the exact boundaries of Falkirk District, one of three parts of the Central region created in 1975, which was abolished at that time. Prior to the 1975 reorganisation, the majority of the council area was part of the historic county of Stirlingshire, and a small part, namely Bo'ness and Blackness, was part of the former county of West Lothian.
Local government in Scotland comprises thirty-two local authorities, commonly referred to as councils. Each council provides public services, including education, social care, waste management, libraries and planning. Councils receive the majority of their funding from the Scottish Government, but operate independently and are accountable to their local electorates. Councils raise additional income via the Council Tax, a locally variable domestic property tax, and Business rates, a non-domestic property tax.
Denny is a town in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. Historically in Stirlingshire, it is situated 7 miles west of Falkirk, and 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Cumbernauld, adjacent to both the M80 and M876 motorways. At the 2011 census, Denny had a resident population of 8,300.
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