Location of the ward [1]
Inverurie and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
Inverurie and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Bryan Hunter Stuart (SNP) | Mike Raeburn Lonchay (Liberal Democrats) | Martin Kitts-Hayes (Liberal Democrats) | Richard Cowling (Conservative) | ||||
| 2012 | Hamish Vernal (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Neil Baillie (SNP) | Judy Margaret Whyte (Independent) | Marion Ewenson (Liberal Democrats) | Colin Clark (Conservative) | ||||
| 2017 by- | Lesley Berry (Conservative /Ind.) | |||||||
| 2020 | ||||||||
| 2022 | David Keating (Conservative) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Conservative | David Keating [note 1] | 25.7 | 1,276 | ||
| SNP | Neil Baillie (incumbent) | 24.1 | 1,200 | ||
| Independent | Judy Margaret Whyte (incumbent) | 22.5 | 1,120 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Marion Ewenson (incumbent) | 17.0 | 843 | 1,003 | |
| SNP | Archie Peebles | 6.9 | 343 | 348 | |
| Scottish Green | Denise May Rothnie | 3.8 | 187 | 195 | |
| Electorate: 12,128 Valid: 4,969 Spoilt: 83 Quota: 994 Turnout: 41.7% | |||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Lesley Berry | 48.53% | 1,672 | 1,679 | 1,715 | 1,871 | |
| SNP | Elaine Mitchell | 33.27% | 1,146 | 1,161 | 1,234 | 1,300 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Scott Bremner | 8.56% | 295 | 309 | 412 | ||
| Labour | Sarah Flavell | 8.01% | 276 | 290 | |||
| Scottish Green | Craig Stewart | 1.62% | 56 | ||||
| Electorate: NA Valid: 3,445 Spoilt: 26 Quota: 1,723 Turnout: 30.9% | |||||||
2017 Aberdeenshire Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Colin Clark (incumbent)† | 35.95 | 1,732 | ||||
| SNP | Neil Baillie | 22.52 | 1,085 | ||||
| Independent | Judy Margaret Whyte | 20.38 | 982 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Marion Ewenson | 11.79 | 568 | 951.1 | 958.69 | 965.63 | |
| SNP | Bryan Hunter Stuart (incumbent) | 5.09 | 245 | 261.41 | 360.1 | 362.9 | |
| Labour | Sarah Flavell | 4.28 | 206 | 265.42 | 269.77 | 271.69 | |
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,818 Spoilt: 48 Quota: 964 Turnout: 4,866 (43.3%) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Conservative | Colin Clark | 38.8% | 1,302 | |
| SNP | Neil Baillie | 34.6% | 1,164 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alison Auld | 22.5% | 755 | |
| Labour | Sarah Flavell | 4.1% | 139 | |
| Quota: Turnout: 30.4% | ||||
2012 Aberdeenshire Council election [6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Bryan Hunter Stuart (incumbent) | 19.7 | 688 | 701 | ||||||
| SNP | Hamish Vernal | 17.5 | 612 | 621 | 621.8 | 643.8 | 685.8 | 690.2 | 806.2 | |
| Conservative | Richard Cowling (incumbent) | 17.4 | 608 | 614 | 614.0 | 636.0 | 684.0 | 692.1 | 771.4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Christopher Kitts-Hayes (incumbent) †† | 17.3 | 606 | 632 | 632.0 | 660.0 | 730.0 | |||
| Labour | Ellis Thorpe | 13.2 | 463 | 477 | 477.1 | 503.1 | 562.1 | 568.9 | ||
| Independent | Mike Raeburn (incumbent) | 6.0 | 211 | 225 | 225.0 | 300.0 | ||||
| Independent | Ron Reid | 5.6 | 196 | 212 | 212.0 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Karen A. MacKenzie | 3.2 | 113 | |||||||
| Electorate: 10,034 Valid: 3,497 Spoilt: 59 Quota: 700 Turnout: 3,556 (34.85%) | ||||||||||
2007 Aberdeenshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Bryan Hunter Stuart | 29.6 | 1,515 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Mike Raeburn | 25.7 | 1,316 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Kitts-Hayes | 16.9 | 865 | 975 | 1,172 | ||||
| Conservative | Richard Cowling | 14.9 | 762 | 823 | 837 | 864 | 928 | 1,190 | |
| Labour | Ellis Thorpe | 11.1 | 567 | 637 | 659 | 693 | 737 | ||
| Independent | John Sangster | 1.7 | 87 | 165 | 175 | 192 | |||
| Electorate: - Valid: 5,148 Spoilt: 86 Quota: 1,030 Turnout: 56.32% | |||||||||
Following the election of Colin Clark (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party) to Westminster at the 2017 United Kingdom general election on 8 June and his subsequent resignation as Councillor for Inverurie & District ward, a by-election was called on Thursday, 12 October 2017. [7]
Inverurie & District By-election 2017 - Aberdeenshire Council [8]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Lesley Berry | 48.17% | 1,672 | 1,679 | 1,715 | 1,871 | |
| SNP | Elaine Mitchell | 33.02% | 1,146 | 1,161 | 1,234 | 1,300 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Scott James Bremner | 8.50% | 295 | 309 | 412 | ||
| Labour | Sarah Flavell | 7.95% | 276 | 290 | |||
| Scottish Green | Craig Stewart | 1.61% | 56 | ||||
| Electorate: 11,233 Valid: 3,445 Spoilt: 26 Quota: 1,723 Turnout: 30.9% | |||||||
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