Inverclyde Council elections

Inverclyde Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007.

Council elections

As a district council

Year	Labour	SNP	Conservative	Liberal [a]	Independent
1974	15	0	3	4	1
1977	8	1	1	13	0
1980	13	0	1	9	0
1984 [b]	11	0	0	9	0
1988	12	0	1	7	0
1992	11	0	1	8	0

1. Alliance from 1981 to 1988, Liberal Democrats from 1988 to 1995.
2. New ward boundaries. ^[1]

As a unitary authority

Year	Labour	SNP	Conservative	Liberal Democrats	Independent
1995	14	0	1	5	0
1999 [a]	11	0	1	8	0
2003	6	0	0	13	1
2007 [b]	9	5	1	4	1
2012	10	6	1	2	1
2017 [c]	8	7	2	1	4
2022	9	8	2	0	3

1. New ward boundaries. ^[2]
2. Change to single transferable vote system and new ward boundaries.
3. New ward boundaries. ^[3]

2007-2012

Inverclyde South West By-Election 18 June 2009 ^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Innes Nelson	42.4	919	923	932	949	988	1,087
	Liberal Democrats	Eric Forbes	21.0	454	455	466	478	522	620
	Labour	Alex McGhee	22.6	490	492	494	507	519
	Conservative	Iain MacLeod	7.9	171	171	178	182
	Independent	Paul Travers	3.1	67	72	77
	UKIP	Laurel Bush	2.3	49	50
	Free Scotland Party	Iain Ramsay	0.8	17
	SNP hold
Valid: 2,167  Spoilt: 29  Quota: 1,084  Turnout: 2,196

2022-2027

Inverclyde West By-Election 7 November 2024 ^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Ian Hellyer	34.0	932	961	999	1,165	1,568
	SNP	Robert Kirkpatrick	33.7	923	939	1,050	1,082
	Conservative	Ted Runciman	15.2	415	485	515
	Alba	Christopher McEleny	8.7	239	258
	Reform UK	John Burleigh	8.4	230
	Labour hold
Valid: 2,739  Spoilt: 19  Quota: 1,370  Turnout: 2,758

References

1. "Initial Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
2. "Third Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements - Inverclyde Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
3. "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements Final Recommendations - Inverclyde Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
4. "Inverclyde South West, 2009". kristoferkeane.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
5. "2024 Local Government By-Election - Inverclyde West – Ward 5". Inverclyde Council. 11 November 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2025.