Hawick and Denholm is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Scottish Borders Council. It elects three Councillors.
Election | Councillors | |||||||
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2007 | Stewart Marshall (Ind.) | Zandra Elliot (Conservative) | Jock Houston (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
2012 | Alastair Cranston (SNP) | |||||||
2017 | Neil Richards (Conservative) | Clair Ramage (SNP/ Ind.) | ||||||
2022 |
2022 Scottish Borders Council election [2]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Independent | Stuart Marshall (incumbent) | 69.2% | 2,265 | ||||||
Independent | Clair Ramage (incumbent)* | 9.7 | 316 | 899.9 | |||||
Conservative | Neil Richards (incumbent) | 9.4 | 309 | 441.2 | 451.3 | 465.9 | 541.4 | 680.2 | |
Green | Catriona Hamilton | 4.5 | 147 | 224.3 | 242.4 | 312.5 | 375.8 | ||
Labour | Kay Hughes | 3.7 | 120 | 188.9 | 197.9 | ||||
Independent | Trevor Adams | 3.5 | 114 | 232.8 | 253.3 | 291.8 | |||
Electorate: 7,173 Valid: 3,271 Spoilt: 30 Quota: 818 Turnout: 46.0% |
2017 Scottish Borders Council election [3]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Independent | Stuart Marshall (incumbent) | 63.3% | 2,283 | ||||||
Conservative | Neil Richards | 16.5% | 596 | 952 | |||||
SNP | Clair Ramage | 13.3% | 478 | 696 | 697 | 738 | 764 | 905 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Turnbull | 3.9% | 140 | 393 | 410 | 432 | 471 | ||
Labour | David Byrne | 1.6% | 57 | 98 | 101 | 114 | |||
Green | Kevin Ferguson | 1.4% | 51 | 93 | 95 | ||||
Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,605 Spoilt: 26 Quota: 902 Turnout: 50.9% |
2012 Scottish Borders Council election [5]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Independent | Stuart Marshall (incumbent) | 56.72 | 1,734 | ||||||
Conservative | Zandra Elliott (incumbent)††† | 13.97 | 427 | 580.1 | 589.3 | 618.2 | 633.2 | 802.3 | |
SNP | Alastair Cranston | 12.46 | 381 | 506.2 | 523.9 | 539.3 | 593.1 | 749.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Watson McAteer | 8.60 | 263 | 482.6 | 493.8 | 507.2 | 542.3 | ||
Labour | Michael A Grieve | 4.81 | 147 | 191.1 | 205.9 | 215.2 | |||
Borders | Mary Douglas | 2.45 | 75 | 96.8 | 105.8 | ||||
Independent | Craig Bryson | 0.98 | 30 | 88.1 | |||||
Electorate: 7,183 Valid: 3,057 Spoilt: 34 Quota: 765 Turnout: 3,091 (42.56%) |
2007 Scottish Borders Council election [6]
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Conservative | Zandra Elliott | 980 | 26.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Stewart Marshall | 904 | 24.0 | 2 | 5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jock Houston | 738 | 19.6 | 3 | 5 | |
SNP | Derek Philips | 454 | 12.0 | |||
Independent | Andrew Farquhar | 301 | 8.0 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Alex Martin | 232 | 6.2 | |||
Green | Kevin Ferguson | 112 | 3.0 | |||
Borders Party | Charles Humphries | 50 | 1.3 | |||
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