Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse | |
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East Ayrshire | |
Population | 17,739 (2021) [1] |
Electorate | 13,347 (2022) |
Major settlements | Crosshouse Kilmarnock (part of) Bonnyton |
Scottish Parliament constituency | Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley |
Scottish Parliament region | South Scotland |
UK Parliament constituency | Kilmarnock and Loudon |
Current ward | |
Created | 2007 |
Number of councillors | 4 |
Councillor | Lilian Jones (Labour) |
Councillor | James Adams (Conservative) |
Councillor | Ian Linton (SNP) |
Councillor | Douglas Reid (SNP) |
Created from | Altonhill, Hillhead and Longpark Crosshouse, Gatehead and Knockentiber Grange and Howard Kilmarnock Central East Kilmarnock Central South Kilmarnock Central West North New Farm Loch and Dean Riccarton |
Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse is one of the nine electoral wards of East Ayrshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 17,739 people.
The area is a Scottish National Party (SNP) stronghold with the party holding half the seats at every election since the creation of the ward.
The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contains all of the former Crosshouse, Gatehead and Knockentiber, Kilmarnock Central West and Grange and Howard wards as well as parts of the former Altonhill, Hillhead and Longpark, Kilmarnock Central East, Kilmarnock Central South, North New Farm Loch and Dean and Riccarton wards. Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse includes the westernmost part of the council area between its borders with North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire and takes in the towns of Crosshouse, Gatehead and Knockentiber as well as the neighbourhoods of Hillhead, Bonnyton, Grange and Howard in Kilmarnock. [2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed. [3]
Election | Councillors | |||||||
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2007 | Ian Linton (SNP) | Douglas Reid (SNP) | Robert Keohone (Labour) | Tom Cook (Conservative) | ||||
2012 | Lillian Jones (Labour) | |||||||
2017 | ||||||||
2022 | James Adams (Conservative) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Labour | Lillian Jones (incumbent) | 28.2 | 1,662 | ||||
Conservative | James Adams | 22.0 | 1,297 | ||||
SNP | Iain Linton (incumbent) | 19.8 | 1,168 | 1,219 | |||
SNP | Douglas Reid (incumbent) | 18.6 | 1,093 | 1,142 | 1,149 | 1,182 | |
Independent | Frank McNiff | 6.3 | 369 | 475 | 516 | 517 | |
Scottish Green | Elizabeth Brown | 3.9 | 228 | 299 | 308 | 312 | |
Alba | Guy Njali Bola | 1.2 | 71 | 81 | 82 | 83 | |
Electorate: 13,347 Valid: 5,888 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,178 Turnout: 44.6% |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Conservative | Tom Cook (incumbent) | 31.3 | 1,789 | |
Labour | Lillian Jones (incumbent) | 23.5 | 1,344 | |
SNP | Iain Linton (incumbent) | 20.5 | 1,171 | |
SNP | Douglas Reid (incumbent) | 20.1 | 1,152 | |
Scottish Green | Elizabeth Brown | 3.8 | 220 | |
Libertarian | Stef Johnstone | 0.8 | 45 | |
Electorate: 12,631 Valid: 5,721 Spoilt: 88 Quota: 1,145 Turnout: 46% |
Source: [6]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
SNP | Iain Linton (incumbent) | 24.3 | 1,210 | ||||||
SNP | Douglas Reid (incumbent) | 20.7 | 1,032 | ||||||
Labour | Lillian Jones | 20.6 | 1,025 | ||||||
Conservative | Tom Cook (incumbent) | 16.6 | 828 | 864 | 869 | 870 | 980 | 1,171 | |
Labour | Dave Meechan | 10.4 | 516 | 554 | 559 | 582 | 709 | ||
Independent | Andi McCann | 7.5 | 375 | 417 | 423 | 424 | |||
Electorate: 12,199 Valid: 4,986 Spoilt: 136 Quota: 998 Turnout: 40.9% |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
SNP | Iain Linton | 25.1 | 1,656 | ||||||
SNP | Douglas Reid | 22.1 | 1,454 | ||||||
Labour | Robert Keohone | 19.4 | 1,280 | 1,315 | 1,330 | ||||
Conservative | Tom Cook | 17.0 | 1,118 | 1,118 | 1,209 | 1,209 | 1,308 | 1,578 | |
Labour | Brian Reeves | 13.1 | 866 | 901 | 917 | 925 | 978 | ||
Independent | Shirley-Anne Weir | 3.3 | 220 | 263 | 280 | 281 | |||
Electorate: 11,833 Valid: 6,594 Spoilt: 182 Quota: 1,319 Turnout: 55.7% |
Source: [9]
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