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Giffnock and Thornliebank is one of the five wards used to elect members of the East Renfrewshire Council. It elects three Councillors.
Giffnock and Thornliebank is one of the five wards used to elect members of the East Renfrewshire Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jim Fletcher (Labour) | Alex Mackie (Liberal Democrats) | Gordon Wallace (Conservative) | |||||
| 2012 | Vincent Waters (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Colm Merrick (SNP) | |||||||
| 2022 | Mary Montague (Labour) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Colm Merrick (incumbent) | 26.1% | 1,888 | |||||
| Conservative | Gordon Wallace (incumbent) | 25.1% | 1,816 | |||||
| Labour | Mary Montague | 22.2% | 1,608 | 1,629 | 1,630 | 1,662 | 1,863 | |
| Independent | Allan Steele | 13.5% | 978 | 983 | 986 | 998 | 1,033 | |
| Independent | Alice Roy | 6.4% | 464 | 469 | 470 | 488 | 576 | |
| Green | Karen Sharkey | 5.4% | 387 | 418 | 418 | 439 | ||
| Alba | George Gebbie | 1.3% | 92 | 97 | 97 | |||
| Electorate: 12,996 Valid: 7,233 Spoilt: 80 [3] (1.1%) Quota: 1,809 Turnout: 56.2% | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | Colm Merrick | 24.40% | 1,853 | 1,855 | 1,860 | 1,898 | 1,990 | |||||
| Conservative | Gordon Wallace (incumbent) | 23.06% | 1,751 | 1,753 | 1,758 | 1,784 | 1,825 | 1,826 | 2,621 | |||
| Labour | Jim Fletcher (incumbent) | 18.84% | 1,431 | 1,435 | 1,438 | 1,506 | 1,615 | 1,650 | 1,715 | 1,838 | 2,224 | |
| Conservative | Paul Smith | 11.84% | 899 | 904 | 905 | 943 | 976 | 979 | ||||
| Independent | Paul Drury | 11.31% | 859 | 862 | 876 | 913 | 1,085 | 1,108 | 1,149 | 1,309 | ||
| Independent | Savio D'Souza | 6.00% | 456 | 460 | 470 | 507 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Park | 3.50% | 266 | 274 | 278 | |||||||
| Independent | Gordon McCaskill * | 0.63% | 48 | 50 | ||||||||
| Libertarian | Alan Findlay | 0.42% | 32 | |||||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 7,595 Spoilt: 92 Quota: 1,899 Turnout: 60.2% | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Labour | Jim Fletcher (incumbent) | 35.53 | 1,935 | |||
| Conservative | Gordon Wallace (incumbent) | 21.36 | 1,163 | 1,207 | 1,398 | |
| SNP | Vincent Waters | 19.89 | 1,083 | 1,209 | 1,375 | |
| Independent | Hugh Moore | 11.84 | 645 | 751 | 994 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alex Mackie (incumbent) | 11.38 | 620 | 747 | ||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Jim Fletcher | 29.8 | 2,075 | ||||||
| Conservative | Gordon Wallace | 27.2 | 1,899 | ||||||
| SNP | Joyce Lythgoe | 18.2 | 1,266 | 1,330.16 | 1,336.00 | 1,390.31 | 1,473.32 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Alex Mackie | 17.9 | 1,244 | 1,357.28 | 1.365.41 | 1,401.65 | 1,585.21 | 2,472.07 | |
| Conservative | Gordon Wilson | 5.4 | 373 | 394.92 | 524.70 | 528.50 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Stuart Miller | 1.6 | 112 | 132.16 | 132.32 | ||||
| Electorate: – Valid: 6,969 Spoilt: 98 Quota: 1,743 | |||||||||
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