Location of the ward [1]
Forres is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Moray Council. It elects four Councillors.
Forres is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Moray Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Irene Ogilvie (SNP) | Jeff Hamilton (Independent) | Lee Bell (Independent) | Iain Young (Conservative) | ||||
| 2010 by | Lorna Creswell (Independent) | |||||||
| 2012 | Aaron McLean (SNP) | George Alexander (Independent) | Anne Skene (Independent) | |||||
| 2017 | Claire Feaver (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | Scott Lawrence (SNP) | Paul McBain (Conservative) | Kathleen Robertson (Conservative) | Draeyk Van Der Horn (Green) | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Scott Lawrence | 34.3 | 2,077 | ||||||
| Conservative | Kathleen Robertson | 25.0 | 1,516 | ||||||
| Conservative | Paul McBain | 15.9 | 962 | 991 | 1,240 | ||||
| Labour | James Hynam | 10.6 | 643 | 830 | 845 | 852 | 1,001 | ||
| Scottish Green | Draeyk Van der Horn | 9.1 | 550 | 928 | 933 | 934 | 1,047 | 1,514 | |
| Independent | Shaun Moat | 5.1 | 309 | 403 | 417 | 424 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 6,128 Spoilt: 71 Quota: 1,212 Turnout: 49.0% | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Claire Feaver | 35.4 | 2,094 | |||||||
| SNP | Aaron McLean (incumbent) | 23.5 | 1,389 | |||||||
| Independent | George Alexander (incumbent) | 16.6 | 981 | 1,247 | ||||||
| Scottish Green | Fabio Villani | 10.4 | 613 | 671 | 767 | 773 | 778 | 835 | ||
| Independent | Lorna Creswell (incumbent) | 9.4 | 555 | 739 | 779 | 815 | 841 | 1,015 | 1,505 | |
| Independent | Jeff Hamilton | 4.1 | 243 | 335 | 349 | 360 | 381 | |||
| Independent | Terry Monaghan | 0.6 | 36 | 54 | 60 | 62 | ||||
| Electorate: 12,116 Valid: 5,911 Spoilt: 47 Quota: 1,183 Turnout: 49.2% | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Independent | George Alexander | 25.2 | 1,134 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Lorna Creswell (incumbent) | 12.8 | 575 | 650 | 676 | 690 | 815 | 867 | 871 | 987 | |||
| SNP | Aaron McLean | 12.2 | 547 | 559 | 569 | 575 | 588 | 924 | |||||
| Conservative | Paul McBain | 10.4 | 466 | 484 | 487 | 507 | 529 | 540 | 541 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Fabio Villani | 10.2 | 457 | 475 | 488 | 492 | 524 | 549 | 552 | 614 | 631 | ||
| SNP | Irene Ogilvie (incumbent) | 9.5 | 429 | 440 | 444 | 447 | 478 | ||||||
| Independent | Anne Audrey Skene | 9.1 | 410 | 441 | 451 | 469 | 550 | 569 | 572 | 732 | 764 | 1,073 | |
| Independent | Jeff Hamilton (incumbent) | 7.0 | 314 | 344 | 350 | 356 | |||||||
| UKIP | Ian Meiklejohn | 2.0 | 91 | 96 | 99 | ||||||||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Andy Anderson | 1.7 | 78 | 85 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 10,999 Valid: 4,501 Spoilt: 50 Quota: 901 Turnout: 40.9% | |||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Aaron John McLean | 24.1 | 773 | 774 | 789 | 800 | 837 | 899 | 950 | 1,045 | |
| Independent | Lorna Creswell | 17.5 | 562 | 576 | 615 | 686 | 726 | 878 | 999 | 1,399 | |
| Independent | Anne Audrey Skene | 14.4 | 463 | 464 | 491 | 541 | 572 | 695 | 860 | ||
| Conservative | Paul McBain | 14.4 | 463 | 464 | 476 | 486 | 491 | 511 | |||
| Scottish Green | Fabio Villani | 12.5 | 401 | 405 | 419 | 433 | 459 | ||||
| Labour | Mark Cascarino | 6.1 | 195 | 195 | 201 | 205 | |||||
| Independent | Janet Kennedy | 6.0 | 192 | 194 | 201 | ||||||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Andy Anderson | 4.1 | 132 | 135 | |||||||
| Independent | Jane Elizabeth Cotton | 0.9 | 30 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 11,224 Valid: 3,210 Spoilt: 23 Quota: 1,606 Turnout: 28.8% | |||||||||||
Source: [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Irene Ogilvie | 29.8 | 1,602 | |||||||
| Conservative | Iain Young | 28.8 | 1,546 | |||||||
| Independent | Jeff Hamilton | 13.3 | 716 | 789 | 880 | 992 | 1,122 | |||
| Independent | Lee Bell | 9.0 | 482 | 540 | 610 | 672 | 831 | 849 | 1,160 | |
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Thomas Anderson | 8.2 | 438 | 549 | 615 | 653 | 719 | 726 | ||
| Independent | Pat Carroll | 6.1 | 326 | 368 | 413 | 492 | ||||
| Independent | Rick Walker | 4.9 | 261 | 294 | 356 | |||||
| Valid: 5,371 Spoilt: 129 Quota: 1,075 Turnout: 51.1% | ||||||||||
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