Location of the ward [1]
Lochar is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects four Councillors.
Lochar is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jeff Leaver (Labour) | John Anthony Charteris (Conservative) | Ivor Alexander Hyslop (Conservative) | Lorna Jean McGowan (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | Jeff Leaver (Labour) | Ted Thompson (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | John Anthony Charteris (Conservative) | Tracey Little (SNP) | ||||||
| 2022 | Linda Dorward (Labour) | Maureen Johnstone (Conservative) | ||||||
2017 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Conservative | John Anthony Charteris | 24.19 | 1,208 | |||||||||
| Conservative | Ivor Alexander Hyslop (incumbent) | 16.88 | 843 | 1,000.61 | ||||||||
| Labour | Jeff Leaver (incumbent) | 13.72 | 685 | 688.29 | 688.5 | 701.68 | 833.24 | 875.96 | 899.3 | 916.78 | 1,153.64 | |
| SNP | Tracey Little | 13.20 | 659 | 661.08 | 661.09 | 685.1 | 689.1 | 710.45 | 1,099.98 | |||
| Independent | Yen Hongmei Jin (incumbent) | 12.13 | 606 | 620.71 | 620.97 | 637.15 | 652.15 | 777.22 | 786.22 | 810.59 | ||
| SNP | Joe McGurk | 8.33 | 416 | 417.21 | 417.23 | 440.58 | 447.58 | 459.75 | ||||
| Independent | Maureen Johnstone | 5.99 | 299 | 310.94 | 311.21 | 322.73 | 326.73 | |||||
| Labour | Keith Walters | 3.16 | 158 | 158.69 | 158.74 | 175.92 | ||||||
| Green | Arthur Ramsay | 2.40 | 120 | 121.38 | 121.43 | |||||||
| Electorate: 10,603 Valid: 4,994 Spoilt: 118 Quota: 999 Turnout: 47.1 | ||||||||||||
2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Yen Hongmei Jin†††† | 28.46 | 1,190 | |||||
| Labour | Jeff Leaver (incumbent) | 27.73 | 1,159 | |||||
| Conservative | Ivor Alexander Hyslop (incumbent) | 15.86 | 663 | 703 | 710.5 | 723.7 | 1,266.4 | |
| Conservative | John Anthony Charteris (incumbent) | 15.05 | 629 | 675.9 | 685.6 | 700.3 | ||
| Labour | Ted Thompson | 12.89 | 539 | 660 | 941.7 | |||
| Electorate: 9,295 Valid: 4,180 Spoilt: 62 Quota: 837 Turnout: 4,242 (44.97%) | ||||||||
2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Jeff Leaver | 19.3 | 978 | 983 | 1,010 | 1,522 | ||||
| Conservative | John Anthony Charteris | 17.2 | 872 | 882 | 916 | 923 | 949.14 | 951.08 | 1,092.25 | |
| SNP | Lorna Jean McGowan | 16.5 | 836 | 843 | 901 | 930 | 1,029.85 | |||
| Conservative | Ivor Alexander Hyslop | 15.6 | 791 | 799 | 832 | 840 | 860.44 | 861.94 | 1,001.14 | |
| Labour | Alec Martin | 11.8 | 597 | 603 | 636 | |||||
| Independent | David Slater | 10.9 | 550 | 593 | 672 | 686. | 764.07 | 768.89 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | John Robertson | 6.3 | 317 | 340 | ||||||
| Independent | Graham William Sutherland McLeod | 2.3 | 118 | |||||||
| Electorate: 8,900 Valid: 5,059 Spoilt: 73 Quota: 1,012 Turnout: 57.7% | ||||||||||
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