Milngavie is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the East Dunbartonshire Council. It elects three Councillors. Its territory (which has not altered since its creation in 2007) consists of the entire burgh of Milngavie, and a sparsely populated hinterland to its north-west, bordering the West Dunbartonshire and Stirling local authority areas. [2] [3] In 2020, the ward had a population of 13,572. [4]
| Election | Councillors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jim Gibbons (SNP) | Bill Binks (Conservative) | Eric Gotts (Liberal Democrats) | |||
| 2012 [5] | Maureen Henry (Labour) | |||||
| 2017 | Graeme McGinnigle (Conservative) | Jim Goodall (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2022 [6] | Alix Mathieson (Conservative) | Aileen Polson (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
2022 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons (incumbent) | 24.89% | 1,566 | |||||
| Conservative | Alix Mathieson | 20.69% | 1,293 | 1,293.05 | 1,303.06 | 1,448.07 | 1,586.08 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Aileen Polson | 16.49% | 1,031 | 1,031.26 | 1,217.49 | 1,449.63 | 2,159.10 | |
| Labour | Thomas Shepherd | 13.49% | 869 | 869.37 | 1,100.79 | 1,364.99 | ||
| Independent | Julie Duncan | 13.28% | 830 | 830.29 | 948.69 | |||
| Green | Emma Sheppard | 10.56% | 660 | 661.59 | ||||
| Electorate: 10,661 Valid: 6,249 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,563 Turnout: 59.1% | ||||||||
2017 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Conservative | Graeme McGinnigle | 27.69% | 1,701 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jim Goodall | 27.64% | 1,698 | |||||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons (incumbent) | 22.38% | 1,375 | 1,381 | 1,393 | 1,486 | 1,957 | |
| Labour | Maureen Henry (incumbent) | 9.29% | 571 | 624 | 684 | 796 | 838 | |
| SNP | Kate Waddell | 7.68% | 472 | 473 | 478 | 560 | ||
| Green | Gordon Masterton | 5.32% | 327 | 342 | 372 | |||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 6,144 Spoilt: 98 Quota: 1,537 Turnout: 58.7% | ||||||||
2012 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Eric Gotts (incumbent) | 36.6 | 1,751 | |||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons (incumbent) | 28.0 | 1,338 | |||
| Labour | Maureen Henry | 20.0 | 955 | 1,177 | 1,283 | |
| Conservative | Bill Binks (incumbent) | 14.6 | 696 | 866 | 889 | |
| Electorate: 10,289 Valid: 4,740 Spoilt: 42 Quota: 1,186 Turnout: 46.07% | ||||||
2007 East Dunbartonshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Jim Gibbons | 20.1 | 1,310 | 1,327 | 1,388 | 1,475 | 1,581 | 1,637 | |||
| Conservative | Bill Binks | 18.8 | 1,230 | 1,234 | 1,277 | 1,305 | 1,372 | 1,436 | 1,436 | 1,742 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Eric Gotts | 18.8 | 1,226 | 1,229 | 1,257 | 1,304 | 1,951 | ||||
| Labour | Peter Ritchie | 17.8 | 1,161 | 1,175 | 1,217 | 1,263 | 1,336 | 1,400 | 1,400 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Fiona Risk | 14.1 | 919 | 924 | 962 | 1,051 | |||||
| EDIA | Pat Ryan | 4.7 | 308 | 314 | |||||||
| Green | Emma Sheppard | 4.7 | 307 | 319 | 364 | ||||||
| Scottish Socialist | Bill Newman | 1.1 | 71 | ||||||||
| Electorate: Valid: 6,532 Spoilt: 61 Quota: 1,634 Turnout: 65.12% | |||||||||||
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