Keith and Cullen is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Moray Council. [1] It elects three Councillors. [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 | |||||
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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 | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
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 | 693.6 | 732.61 | 955.35 | |
Liberal Democrats | Leslie Tarr | 9.9% | 341 | 589.4 | 591.8 | 674.21 | ||
Scottish Family | William Barclay | 2.9% | 99 | 178.0 | 178.4 | |||
Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,432 Spoilt: 37 Quota: 859 Turnout: 45.7% |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Conservative | Donald Gatt | 32.7% | 1,208 | ||||
SNP | Theresa Coull | 29.5% | 1,088 | ||||
Independent | Ron Shepherd (incumbent) | 18.02% | 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: 3,752 (46.2%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
SNP | Gary Coull (incumbent) | 42.45% | 1,319 | |||||
Independent | Ron Shepherd (incumbent) | 22.59% | 702 | 750.5 | 866.7 | |||
Independent | Stewart Cree (incumbent) | 15.25% | 474 | 591.5 | 706.1 | 752.5 | 964.8 | |
Conservative | Valery Dickson | 10.04% | 312 | 336.2 | ||||
SNP | Hazel Thain | 9.66 | 300 | 615.2 | 633.5 | 650.6 | ||
Electorate: 7,810 Valid: 3,107 Spoilt: 33 Quota: 777 Turnout: 3,140 (39.78%) |
Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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SNP | Gary Coull | 1,555 | 36.87 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Ron Shepherd | 827 | 19.61 | 2 | 4 | |
Independent | Stewart Cree | 698 | 16.55 | 3 | 4 | |
Independent | Percy Watt | 582 | 13.80 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Peter Matheson | 300 | 7.11 | |||
Conservative | Olive Starsmore | 256 | 6.07 |
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