Location of the ward [1]
Midlothian East is one of the six wards used to elect members of the Midlothian Council. It elects three Councillors.
Midlothian East is one of the six wards used to elect members of the Midlothian Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Lisa Beattie (SNP) | Peter Boyes (Labour) | Katie Moffat (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
| 2012 | Peter de Vink (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2014 by | Kenny Young (Labour) | |||||||
| 2017 | Kenneth Baird (SNP) | John Hackett (Labour) | Peter Smaill (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022 [2] | Stuart Douglas McKenzie (SNP) | Bryan Pottinger (Labour) | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SNP | Stuart McKenzie | 35.38% | 1,538 | 1,547 | 1,662 | 1,963 | |
| Conservative | Alan Symon | 29.42% | 1,279 | 1,326 | 1,364 | 1,656 | |
| Labour | Hazel Flanagan | 24.61% | 1,070 | 1,114 | 1,222 | ||
| Green | Joy Hannah Godfrey | 6.49% | 282 | 332 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Margaret Louise Davis | 4.09% | 178 | ||||
| Electorate: 12,052 Valid: 4,347 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 2,174 Turnout: 4,368 (35.8%) | |||||||
2017 Midlothian Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Peter Smaill | 26.9 | 1,522 | ||||
| Labour | John Hackett | 22.7 | 1,284 | 1,314.3 | 1,387.5 | 1,431.6 | |
| Independent | Robert Hogg | 18.8 | 1,064 | 1,098.0 | 1,169.1 | 1,210.2 | |
| SNP | Kenneth Baird | 15.4 | 872 | 873.1 | 928.1 | 1,485.8 | |
| SNP | Louise D'Arcy-Greig | 10.8 | 609 | 610.4 | 677.4 | ||
| Green | Helen Armstrong | 5.3 | 301 | 309.1 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,652 Spoilt: 68 Quota: 1,414 Turnout: 48.3% | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Kenny Young | 32.9% | 1,294 | 1,310 | 1,343 | 1,443 | 1,682 | |
| SNP | Colin Cassidy | 32.1% | 1,260 | 1,270 | 1,357 | 1,384 | 1,613 | |
| Independent | Robert Hogg | 19.8% | 780 | 789 | 831 | 914 | ||
| Conservative | Andrew Hardie | 8.4% | 331 | 342 | 359 | |||
| Green | Bill Kerr-Smith | 5.0% | 197 | 210 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Euan Davidson | 1.7% | 68 | |||||
| Electorate: 11,637 Valid: 3,930 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 1,966 Turnout: 3,970 (34.1%) | ||||||||
2012 Midlothian Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Lisa Beattie (incumbent) | 33.1 | 1,372 | |||||||
| Labour | Peter Boyes (incumbent) † | 24.2 | 1,003 | 1,015.5 | 1,020.5 | 1,036.7 | 1,048.6 | |||
| Labour | Katie Moffat (incumbent) | 11.5 | 475 | 486.9 | 493.2 | 525.7 | ||||
| Independent | Peter de Vink | 11.1 | 461 | 484.9 | 503.4 | 686.3 | 737.8 | 800.9 | 1014.3 | |
| SNP | Paul Bertram | 9.8 | 405 | 656.9 | 665.9 | 689.4 | 721.1 | 781.7 | ||
| Conservative | Richard Thomson | 9.1 | 379 | 388.3 | 388.3 | |||||
| TUSC | Bob Goupillot | 1.3 | 52 | 54.2 | ||||||
| Electorate: 10,409 Valid: 4,147 Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,037 Turnout: 4,225 (39.84%) | ||||||||||
2007 Midlothian Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Lisa Beattie | 1,988 | 34.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Peter Boyes | 1,357 | 23.6 | 2 | 4 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Katie Moffat† | 831 | 14.5 | 3 | 7 | |
| Conservative | Robin Traquair | 812 | 14.1 | |||
| Labour | Bob Jenkins | 617 | 10.7 | |||
| Solidarity | Derek Duncan | 82 | 1.4 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Murray Court | 63 | 1.1 | |||
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