Keith and Cullen is one of the eight wards of the Moray Council. [1] There are 3 councillors for the area. [2]
After the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the ward will move from the Moray to the new Aberdeenshire North and Moray East constituency.
Election | Councillors | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2007 | Stewart Cree (Independent) | Ron Shepherd (Independent) | Gary Coull (SNP) | |||
2012 | ||||||
2017 | Donald Gatt (Conservative) | Theresa Coull (SNP) | ||||
2022 | Tracy Colyer (Conservative) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
SNP | Theresa Coull (incumbent) | 43.5 | 1,493 | |||||
Conservative | Donald Gatt (incumbent) | 24.7 | 849 | 884.25 | ||||
Conservative | Tracy Colyer | 18.9 | 650 | 673.8 | 694 | 733 | 955 | |
Liberal Democrats | Leslie Tarr | 9.9 | 341 | 589 | 592 | 674 | ||
Scottish Family | William Barclay | 2.9 | 99 | 178 | 178 | |||
Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,432 Spoilt: 37 Quota: 859 Turnout: 45.7% |
Source: [3]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Conservative | Donald Gatt | 32.7 | 1,208 | ||||
SNP | Theresa Coull | 29.5 | 1,088 | ||||
Independent | Ron Shepherd (incumbent) | 18.0 | 665 | 765 | 783 | 1,069 | |
SNP | Iain Grieve | 10.2 | 375 | 382 | 510 | 570 | |
Independent | Rob Barsby | 9.6 | 354 | 442 | 447 | ||
Electorate: 8,118 Valid: 3,690 Spoilt: 62 Quota: 923 Turnout: 46.2% |
Source: [4]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
SNP | Gary Coull (incumbent) | 42.5 | 1,319 | |||||
Independent | Ron Shepherd (incumbent) | 22.6 | 702 | 751 | 867 | |||
Independent | Stewart Cree (incumbent) | 15.3 | 474 | 592 | 706 | 753 | 965 | |
Conservative | Valery Dickson | 10.0 | 312 | 336 | ||||
SNP | Hazel Thain | 9.7 | 300 | 615 | 634 | 651 | ||
Electorate: 7,810 Valid: 3,107 Spoilt: 33 Quota: 777 Turnout: 39.8% |
Source: [5]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
SNP | Gary Coull | 36.9 | 1,555 | |||||
Independent | Ron Shepherd | 19.6 | 827 | 882 | 945 | 1,022 | 1,243 | |
Independent | Stewart Cree | 16.6 | 698 | 809 | 847 | 955 | 1,293 | |
Independent | Percy Watt | 13.8 | 582 | 657 | 701 | 786 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Peter Matheson | 7.1 | 300 | 366 | 411 | |||
Conservative | Olive Starsmore | 6.1 | 256 | 269 | ||||
Valid: 4,218 Spoilt: 55 Quota: 1,055 Turnout: 53.8% |
Source: [6]
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