Location of the ward [1]
Oban North and Lorn is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects four Councillors.
Oban North and Lorn is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Elaine Robertson (Ind.) | Duncan MacIntyre (Ind.) | Neil MacKay (Liberal Democrats) | Donald MacDonald (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | Ian Angus McDonald (Ind.) | Louise-Ann Glenn Lee (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | Kieron Green (Ind.) | Andrew Vennard (Conservative) | Julie McKenzie (SNP) | |||||
| 2022 | Luna Martin (Green) | |||||||
2022 Argyll and Bute Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Julie McKenzie (incumbent) | 30.6 | 1254 | |||||||
| Conservative | Andrew Vennard (incumbent) | 18.7 | 767 | 772.5 | 779.6 | 788.3 | 842.7 | |||
| Independent | Kieron Green (incumbent) | 15.4 | 632 | 679.1 | 703.0 | 748.1 | 811.9 | 819.1 | 1107.5 | |
| Independent | Linda Battison | 11.4 | 466 | 490.2 | 519.4 | 571.8 | 631.6 | 637.0 | ||
| Green | Luna Martin | 9.7 | 396 | 583.5 | 624.1 | 716.9 | 784.2 | 785.4 | 897.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Veronica Davis | 6.5 | 267 | 290.9 | 305.3 | 318.7 | ||||
| Independent | Kyle Campbell-Renton | 4.8 | 198 | 223.3 | 245.7 | |||||
| Alba | Angus Files | 2.9 | 117 | 158.9 | ||||||
| Electorate: 8369 Valid: 4097 Spoilt: 33 Quota: 820 Turnout: 49.3% | ||||||||||
2017 Argyll and Bute Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | Elaine Robertson (incumbent) | 22.01 | 913 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Andrew Vennard | 17.11 | 710 | 721.8 | 727.9 | 746.5 | 769.4 | 789.6 | 814.1 | 828.4 | |
| SNP | Julie McKenzie (incumbent) | 16.63 | 690 | 694.6 | 698.6 | 704.8 | 717.1 | 754.8 | 829.2 | 1356.5 | |
| SNP | Breege Smyth | 12.97 | 538 | 543.1 | 546.1 | 548.2 | 562.2 | 581.5 | 647.2 | ||
| Independent | Kieron Green (incumbent) | 11.69 | 485 | 515.8 | 519.3 | 563.3 | 600.5 | 677.0 | 764.2 | 797.0 | |
| Green | William Mohieddeen | 7.33 | 304 | 307.5 | 308.5 | 320.6 | 328.0 | 342.4 | |||
| Independent | Neil MacKay | 4.39 | 182 | 189.5 | 210.3 | 222.4 | 262.5 | ||||
| Independent | Grant Nicholson | 3.71 | 154 | 159.2 | 166.7 | 177.0 | |||||
| Independent | Brian Burnett | 2.68 | 111 | 115.0 | 118.1 | ||||||
| Independent | Allan McKie | 1.49 | 62 | 64.3 | |||||||
| Electorate: Valid: 4,149 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 830 Turnout: 4,200 (52.0%) | |||||||||||
2012 Argyll and Bute Council election [6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Independent | Elaine Robertson (incumbent) | 22.23% | 807 | |||||||||
| SNP | Louise Anne Glen-Lee†† (incumbent) | 19.47% | 707 | 715.6 | 721.9 | 732 | ||||||
| Independent | Duncan MacIntyre (incumbent)†††††† | 11.59% | 421 | 436.2 | 443.7 | 471.9 | 472.2 | 509.6 | 611.3 | 726.7 | 811.4 | |
| SNP | Donald Melville | 11.29% | 410 | 415.9 | 420 | 445.1 | 448.8 | 471 | 517.2 | 541.9 | ||
| Independent | Iain Angus MacDonald ††††† | 9.94% | 361 | 372.7 | 379.9 | 410.8 | 411.1 | 437.8 | 476.8 | 542.6 | 645.3 | |
| Conservative | Roy Rutherford | 9.14% | 332 | 340.1 | 343.3 | 353.5 | 353.6 | 384.4 | 409.2 | |||
| Independent | Neil MacKay (incumbent) | 6.11% | 222 | 231.3 | 239 | 243.1 | 243.3 | 264.3 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Gwyneth Neal | 5.17% | 188 | 196.7 | 201.1 | 206.3 | 206.5 | |||||
| Independent | George Doyle | 3.44% | 125 | 126.9 | 136.1 | |||||||
| Independent | Wilma McIntosh | 1.60% | 58 | 61.3 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 7,524 Valid: 3,631 Spoilt: 46 Quota: 727 Turnout: 3,677 (48.26%) | ||||||||||||
2007 Argyll and Bute Council election [7]
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Elaine Robertson | 1,005 | 22.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Independent | Duncan MacIntyre | 779 | 17.1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Neil MacKay††† | 665 | 14.6 | 3 | 8 | |
| SNP | Donald MacDonald | 618 | 13.6 | 4 | 10 | |
| SNP | Mike MacKenzie | 401 | 8.8 | |||
| Conservative | Eileen Mary Kirkpatrick | 387 | 8.5 | |||
| Independent | Ian Smyth | 200 | 4.4 | |||
| Independent | Sidney MacDougall | 188 | 4.1 | |||
| Independent | George Doyle | 176 | 3.9 | |||
| Independent | Gwen Cameron | 140 | 3.1 | |||
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