Location of the ward [1]
Ellon and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Ellon and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Rob Merson (SNP) | Isobel Davidson (Liberal Democrats) | Debra Margaret Storr (Liberal Democrats) | Gillian Louise Owen (Conservative) | ||||
| 2012 | Richard Thomson (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Anouk Kloppert (SNP) | |||||||
| 2022 | Louise McAllister (SNP) | John Crawley (Conservative) | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Isobel Davidson (incumbent) | 22.0 | 1,205 | |||||||
| SNP | Louise McAllister (incumbent) | 20.8 | 1,139 | |||||||
| Conservative | John Crawley | 19.1 | 1,050 | 1,063 | 1,064 | 1,070 | 1,140 | |||
| Conservative | Gillian Owen (incumbent) | 16.5 | 906 | 935 | 936 | 946 | 993 | 1,028 | 1,202 | |
| SNP | Josh Gall | 10.9 | 599 | 612 | 645 | 772 | 871 | 873 | ||
| Labour | Mark Lappin | 6.3 | 348 | 370 | 371 | 444 | ||||
| Green | Craig William Stewart | 4.4 | 241 | 255 | 258 | |||||
| Electorate: 11,837 Valid: 5,488 Spoilt: 76 Quota: 1,098 Turnout: 47.0% | ||||||||||
2017 Aberdeenshire Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Gillian Louise Owen (incumbent) | 40.94 | 2,258 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Isobel Davidson (incumbent) | 19.71 | 1,087 | 1,703.86 | |||
| SNP | Richard Thomson (incumbent) | 17.9 | 987 | 1,034.02 | 1,093.74 | 1,264.34 | |
| SNP | Anouk Kloppert | 13.93 | 768 | 793.55 | 843.88 | 1,024.70 | |
| Labour | John Morgan | 7.52 | 415 | 548.39 | 835.99 | ||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,515 Spoilt: 64 Quota: 1,104 Turnout: 5,579 (47.2%) | |||||||
2012 Aberdeenshire Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Rob Merson (incumbent) | 39.04 | 1,644 | |||||
| Conservative | Gillian Louise Owen (incumbent) | 16.74 | 705 | 748.8 | 761.6 | 839.4 | 867.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Isobel Davidson (incumbent) | 16.36 | 689 | 760.6 | 800.9 | 918.6 | ||
| SNP | Richard Thomson | 11.26 | 474 | 1,055.3 | ||||
| Labour | Peter Thomas Smyth | 9.48 | 399 | 426.8 | 457.8 | 511.5 | 531.5 | |
| Independent | Sandy Allan | 7.12 | 300 | 325.8 | 361.7 | |||
| Electorate: 11,173 Valid: 4,211 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 843 Turnout: 4,262 (37.69%) | ||||||||
2007 Aberdeenshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Rob Merson | 40.5 | 2,458 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Isobel Davidson | 23.2 | 1,407 | |||||
| Conservative | Gillian Louise Owen | 14.4 | 872 | 1,033 | 1,053 | 1,197 | 1,274 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Debra Margaret Storr†† | 8.6 | 524 | 777 | 899 | 1,049 | 1,326 | |
| Labour | Ann Thorpe | 7.5 | 456 | 587 | 599 | 648 | ||
| Independent | Diane Ripley | 5.8 | 352 | 542 | 555 | |||
| Electorate: - Valid: 6,069 Spoilt: 69 Quota: 1,214 Turnout: 55.37% | ||||||||
Following the election of Richard Thomson (SNP) to Westminster at the 2019 United Kingdom general election on 12 December and his subsequent resignation as Councillor for Ellon & District ward a by-election was called on Thursday, 15 October 2020. [6]
Ellon & District By-election 2020 - Aberdeenshire Council [7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Louise McAllister | 42.01% | 1,683 | 1,725 | 1,757 | 1,916 | 2,377 | |
| Conservative | John Paul Crawley | 41.39% | 1,658 | 1,663 | 1,679 | 1,840 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Trevor Booth Mason | 10.11% | 405 | 443 | 485 | |||
| Labour | John David Bennett | 2.85% | 114 | 126 | ||||
| Green | Peter Alexander Kennedy | 2.80% | 112 | |||||
| Electorate: 11,893 Valid: 3,972 Spoilt: 34 Quota: 1,986 Turnout: 33.7% | ||||||||
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