Location of the ward [1]
Mid and Upper Nithsdale is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects three Councillors.
Mid and Upper Nithsdale is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jim Dempster (Labour /Ind.) | John Syme (Labour) | Gill Dykes (Conservative) | Andrew Stuart Wood (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2017 | 3 seats | Matthew Ronnie (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Andrew Wood (Conservative) | Tony Berretti (SNP) | ||||||
2017 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Conservative | Matthew Ronnie | 27.98 | 1,211 | |||||
| Labour | Jim Dempster (incumbent) | 24.38 | 1,055 | 1,087.55 | ||||
| SNP | Andrew Stuart Wood (incumbent)†††† | 20.15 | 872 | 876.65 | 876.96 | 1,043.9 | 1,286.21 | |
| Labour | John Syme (incumbent) | 16.73 | 724 | 730.76 | 734.26 | 839.41 | ||
| No description | Graham Watson | 10.77 | 466 | 497.92 | 498.1 | |||
| Electorate: 8,105 Valid: 4,328 Spoilt: 50 Quota: 1,083 Turnout: 53.4 | ||||||||
2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Labour | Jim Dempster (incumbent) | 27.45 | 1,194 | ||
| Conservative | Gill Dykes (incumbent) | 26.53 | 1,154 | ||
| SNP | Andrew Stuart Wood (incumbent) | 20.51 | 892 | ||
| Labour | John Syme (incumbent) | 19.08 | 830 | 1,098.6 | |
| UKIP | Douglas Watters | 4.55 | 198 | 209.1 | |
| Conservative | Elly Hurren | 1.86 | 81 | 88.3 | |
| Electorate: 9,239 Valid: 4,349 Spoilt: 67 Quota: 870 Turnout: 4,416 (47.07%) | |||||
2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Jim Dempster | 22.0 | 1,261 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Gill Dykes | 19.2 | 1,102 | 1,106.10 | 1,117.38 | 1,138.47 | 1,195.83 | ||||
| Labour | John Syme | 15.3 | 876 | 942.11 | 961.57 | 989.39 | 1,010.03 | 1,011.46 | 1,074.06 | 1,136.04 | |
| SNP | Andrew Stuart Wood | 13.7 | 783 | 790.02 | 816.39 | 842.57 | 899.21 | 901.90 | 996.69 | 1,117.31 | |
| Conservative | Neil McKay | 13.1 | 753 | 757.74 | 766.02 | 794.56 | 836.65 | 870.23 | 985.48 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Rog Wood | 6.6 | 378 | 386.66 | 397.03 | 414.48 | 474.85 | 477.80 | |||
| Independent | Mike Steele | 4.5 | 256 | 258.46 | 294.01 | 317.28 | |||||
| UKIP | Douglas Watters | 3.1 | 175 | 178.01 | 181.19 | ||||||
| Independent | Moses Kungu | 2.5 | 145 | 149.19 | |||||||
| Electorate: 9,354 Valid: 5,729 Spoilt: 102 Quota: 1,146 Turnout: 62.3% | |||||||||||
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