Lower Deeside (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Lower Deeside is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeen City Council. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Marie Boulton (Ind.)		Aileen Malone (Liberal Democrats)		Alan Milne (Conservative)
2012			M. Tauqeer Malik (Labour)
2017				Philip Bell (Conservative)
2022	Duncan Massey (Conservative)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeen City Council election

Lower Deeside – 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	M. Tauqeer Malik (incumbent)	23.8	1,640	1,698	1,804
	Independent	Marie Boulton (incumbent)	21.7	1,496	1,524	1,622	1,651	1,733
	Conservative	Duncan Massey [note 1]	17.3	1,194	1,197	1,232	1,242	2,009
	SNP	Ewan Ritchie	15.3	1,051	1,192	1,234	1,247	1,252
	Conservative	Gillian Tebberen	12.8	882	890	910	913
	Liberal Democrats	Sue Mulkerrin	4.6	316	363
	Scottish Green	Daniel Verhamme	4.5	307
Electorate: 12,555  Valid: 6,886  Spoilt: 84  Quota: 1,722  Turnout: 55.5%

Source: ^{[3] [4]}

2017 election

2017 Aberdeen City Council election ^[5]

Lower Deeside – 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Conservative	Philip Bell	39.8	2,714
	Independent	Marie Boulton (incumbent)	16.4	1,119	1,449.4	1,452.5	1,512	1,556.09	1,822.8
	Labour	M. Tauqeer Malik (incumbent)‡	15.3	1,040	1,155.5	1,165.09	1,211.1	1,241.6	1,447.9	1,497.3	1,976.8
	SNP	Pamela McBain	15.1	1,028	1,042.9	1,049.4	1,068.8	1,145.9	1,224.4	1,235.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ken McLeod	7.9	541	743.6	751.9	770.7	816.04
	Scottish Green	Nir Oren	2.9	195	209.5	213.3	223.8
	Independent	Kenneth Pratt	2.1	143	202.9	205.7
	Scottish Libertarian	Robbie Bowman	0.5	31	45.9
Electorate: TBC  Valid: 6,811  Spoilt: 52  Quota: 1,703  Turnout: 6,863 (57.7%)

2012 election

2012 Aberdeen City Council election

Lower Deeside - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Marie Boulton (incumbent)	30.7%	1,520
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Malone (incumbent)	15.3%	755	814.2	823.4	992.7	1,140.9	1,539.9
	Labour	M. Tauqeer Malik	15.0%	744	779	789.4	841.2	1,007.5	1,068.9
	Conservative	Raymond Murchie	14.4%	712	741.4	754.5	881.8	950.2
	SNP	Dorothy Janet McCaig	13.3%	659	677.4	684.9	739.4
	Independent	Peter Reiss	9.9%	490	568.6	621.3
	Independent	Andy Anderson	1.3%	64	94.7
Electorate: 11,301  Valid: 4,944  Spoilt: 33  Quota: 1,237  Turnout: 4,977 (43.75%)

2007 election

2007 Aberdeen City Council election

Lower Deeside - 3 seats ^{[6] [7]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Malone	23.9	1,536	1,660
	Conservative	Alan Milne††††	24.0	1,546	1,588	1,592	1,745
	Independent	Marie Boulton	17.1	1,097	1,173	1,176	1,353	1,399
	SNP	David Adams	16.6	1,068	1,125	1,127	1,234	1,253
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Malone	9.4	603	692	726
	Labour	Marianne Stewart	9.1	583
Electorate:  Valid: 6,435  Spoilt: 69  Quota: 1,609  Turnout: 6,504

Notes

1. Cllr Massey defected to Reform UK in June 2025. ^[2]

References

1. "Scottish Boundary Commission | The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland".
2. VanReenen, Danyel (2 June 2025). "Scottish Labour councillor defecting to Reform, says Nigel Farage". STV. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
3. "Declaration of Results Report Lower Deeside" (PDF). Aberdeen City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
4. "Candidate votes per stage Lower Deeside" (PDF). Aberdeen City Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
5. "Local government election 2017: Results". Aberdeen City Council. 29 June 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
6. "Local Election Results 3rd May 2007" (PDF). Local Election Archive Project. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
7. "Local Government Elections May 2007 - Full Results". Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 5 April 2011.^{[ permanent dead link ]}