Location of the ward [1]
Oban South and the Isles is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects four Councillors.
Oban South and the Isles is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Gordon Chalmers (Ind.) | Mary-Jean Devon (Liberal Democrats /SNP /Ind.) | Roddy McCuish (SNP/ Ind./ ISP) | Donald Skye McIntosh (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | Alistair MacDougall (Ind.) | Fred Hall (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | Jamie McGrigor (Conservative) | Jim Linch (SNP) | ||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Amanda Hampsey (Conservative) | Andrew Kane (Ind.) | Willie Hume (SNP) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| SNP | Jim Lynch (incumbent) | 21.3 | 773 | ||||||||||
| SNP | Willie Hume | 16.9 | 615 | 645 | 648 | 657 | 667 | 705 | 724 | 777 | |||
| Conservative | Amanda Hampsey | 12.4 | 452 | 452 | 460 | 479 | 522 | 538 | 601 | 645 | 646 | 667 | |
| Scottish Green | Phyl Stuart Meyer | 9.7 | 353 | 357 | 368 | 392 | 401 | 436 | 491 | 520 | 539 | ||
| Independent | Andrew Kane | 8.1 | 295 | 295 | 304 | 314 | 354 | 393 | 439 | 529 | 540 | 698 | |
| Independent | Colin Kennedy | 7.0 | 256 | 257 | 269 | 276 | 309 | 378 | 405 | ||||
| Independent | Donnie Campbell | 6.5 | 235 | 235 | 247 | 257 | 280 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Henry Drummond Boswell | 5.2 | 188 | 188 | 197 | 255 | 282 | 302 | |||||
| Independent | Jamie McGrigor (incumbent) | 4.9 | 179 | 180 | 214 | 226 | |||||||
| Labour | Gopi Ageer | 4.7 | 169 | 169 | 176 | ||||||||
| Independent | John Watson | 3.2 | 118 | 120 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 8,092 Valid: 3,633 Spoilt: 62 Quota: 727 Turnout: 45.7% | |||||||||||||
2017 Argyll and Bute Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Roddy McCuish (incumbent) | 21.12 | 808 | |||||||
| Independent | Mary-Jean Devon (incumbent) | 19.19 | 734 | 744.1 | 789.8 | |||||
| Conservative | Jamie McGrigor | 16.44 | 629 | 636.3 | 667.9 | 671.0 | 712.5 | 759.0 | 770.0 | |
| SNP | Jim Lynch | 16.03 | 613 | 616.7 | 619.8 | 623.0 | 637.4 | 680.0 | 1164.3 | |
| SNP | Sean MacIntyre | 13.22 | 506 | 511.5 | 519.5 | 520.9 | 539.1 | 572.7 | ||
| Labour | Jake Ainscough | 5.91 | 226 | 229.0 | 257.5 | 259.8 | 276.8 | |||
| Independent | Alistair MacDougall (incumbent) | 4.05 | 155 | 158.2 | 169.5 | 179.3 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | David Pollard | 4.03 | 154 | 156.4 | ||||||
| Electorate: Valid: 3,825 Spoilt: 66 Quota: 766 Turnout: 3,891 (47.5%) | ||||||||||
2012 Argyll and Bute Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Mary-Jean Devon (incumbent) | 24.67% | 830 | ||||||||
| SNP | Roddy McCuish (incumbent) | 22.79% | 767 | ||||||||
| SNP | Fred Hall† | 10.37% | 349 | 408.6 | 461.6 | 475.2 | 489.6 | 523.2 | 569 | 632.6 | |
| Independent | Alistair MacDougall | 8.35% | 281 | 305.4 | 307.9 | 333.8 | 373.4 | 406 | 580.9 | 701.5 | |
| Independent | Gordon Chalmers (incumbent) | 7.99% | 269 | 305.1 | 307.1 | 329.7 | 370.5 | 386.2 | |||
| Independent | Neil MacKinnon MacIntyre | 7.64% | 257 | 260.4 | 273.9 | 291.1 | 327.4 | 442.7 | 483.7 | ||
| Independent | Sean MacIntyre | 7.04% | 237 | 239.8 | 248.4 | 266.7 | 283.9 | ||||
| Conservative | Michael Hawke | 5.68% | 191 | 194 | 196.4 | 252.2 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Graham Kanes | 5.47% | 184 | 189.5 | 191.6 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,615 Valid: 3,365 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 674 Turnout: 3,416 (44.19%) | |||||||||||
2007 Argyll and Bute Council election [6]
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Roddy McCuish | 955 | 23.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Mary-Jean Devon† | 672 | 16.4 | 2 | 5 | |
| SNP | Donald Skye McIntosh†††† | 506 | 12.4 | 3 | 9 | |
| Independent | Gordon Chalmers | 444 | 10.9 | 4 | 9 | |
| Conservative | Roy Rutherford | 413 | 10.1 | |||
| Independent | Alastair MacDougall | 347 | 8.5 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Nicola Welsh | 293 | 7.2 | |||
| Independent | Neil MacKinnon MacIntyre | 290 | 7.1 | |||
| Independent | Roderick MacEachen | 143 | 3.5 | |||
| Independent | David Gallant | 27 | 0.7 | |||
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