Location of the ward [1]
Perth City Centre is one of the twelve wards used to elect members of the Perth and Kinross Council. It elects four Councillors.
Perth City Centre is one of the twelve wards used to elect members of the Perth and Kinross Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jack Coburn (SNP) | Archie MacLellan (Labour) | Heather Stewart (Conservative) | Peter Barrett (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2015 By- | Andrew Parrott (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Eric Drysdale (SNP) | Chris Ahern (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
2022 Perth and Kinross Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Eric Drysdale (incumbent) | 27.49% | 1,445 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Barrett (incumbent) | 19.75% | 1,038 | 1,051.6 | 1,056.41 | ||||||
| Conservative | Chris Ahern (incumbent) | 19.12% | 1,005 | 1,008.26 | 1,009.26 | 1,010.19 | 1,026.22 | 1,037.52 | 1,042.48 | 1,328 | |
| SNP | Andrew Parrott (incumbent) | 12.46% | 655 | 979.46 | 1,006.45 | 1,007.02 | 1,013.84 | 1,174.36 | |||
| Labour | Scott Forsyth | 8.28% | 435 | 449.41 | 453.96 | 454.96 | 472.29 | 543.09 | 576.67 | 581.87 | |
| Conservative | Nick Tulloch | 5.69% | 299 | 299.54 | 299.54 | 299.87 | 305.89 | 312.92 | 314.49 | ||
| Scottish Green | Susannah Rae | 5.1% | 268 | 282.41 | 284.96 | 285.51 | 294.35 | ||||
| Independent | Ian Thomson | 1.28% | 64 | 66.45 | 74.45 | 74.71 | |||||
| Alba | Sandy Miller | 0.91% | 48 | 53.71 | |||||||
| Electorate: 12,856 Valid: 5,257 Quota: 1,052 Turnout: 41.8% | |||||||||||
2017 Perth and Kinross Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Chris Ahern | 32.75 | 1,763 | ||||||||
| SNP | Eric Drysdale | 19.99 | 1,076 | 1,091.17 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Barrett (incumbent) | 19.28 | 1,038 | 1,313.87 | |||||||
| SNP | Andrew Parrott (incumbent) | 14.08 | 758 | 763.06 | 780.22 | 792.2 | 792.21 | 809.79 | 895.96 | 1,086.4 | |
| Labour | Tricia Duncan | 8.81 | 474 | 554.93 | 627.55 | 628.32 | 633.9 | 668.24 | 739.77 | ||
| Scottish Green | Fraser Hunter | 3.23 | 174 | 191.51 | 218.62 | 219.19 | 225.54 | 250.69 | |||
| Scotland Independent Network | Ian Thomson | 1.45 | 78 | 132.08 | 152.44 | 152.56 | 173.49 | ||||
| Independent | David West | 0.41 | 22 | 44.57 | 54.84 | 54.87 | |||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,383 Spoilt: 129 Quota: 1,077 Turnout: 5,512 (44.7%) | |||||||||||
2012 Perth and Kinross Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Jack Coburn (incumbent)† | 21.77% | 923 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Barrett (incumbent) | 21.09% | 894 | |||||||
| Labour | Archie MacLellan (incumbent) | 17.43% | 739 | 742 | 751 | 751 | 778 | 834 | 1,038 | |
| SNP | Andy Hay | 14.74% | 625 | 691 | 697 | 698 | 716 | 749 | ||
| Conservative | Heather Stewart (incumbent) | 16.58% | 703 | 704 | 716 | 719 | 729 | 792 | 837 | |
| Independent | Nathan Shields | 5.28% | 224 | 225 | 230 | 241 | 279 | |||
| Perth Independent Candidates Party | Ian Thomson | 2.62% | 111 | 112 | 114 | 119 | ||||
| Perth Independent Candidates Party | Mahesh Rednam | 0.47% | 20 | 20 | 21 | |||||
| Electorate: - Valid: 4,239 Spoilt: 74 Quota: 848 Turnout: 4,315 (%) | ||||||||||
2007 Perth and Kinross Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Jack Coburn | 23.0 | 1,299 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Barrett | 20.8 | 1,172 | ||||||
| Conservative | Heather Stewart | 20.1 | 1,137 | ||||||
| Labour | Archie MacLellan | 17.9 | 1,012 | 1,024 | 1,032 | 1,034 | 1,104 | 1,201 | |
| SNP | Gordon Hunter | 8.6 | 488 | 598 | 604 | 604 | 664 | 745 | |
| Independent | Ian Thomson | 5.3 | 298 | 305 | 312 | 313 | 364 | ||
| Scottish Green | Jack Cockin | 4.2 | 238 | 249 | 258 | 259 | |||
| Electorate: 11,109 Valid: 5,644 Spoilt: 115 Quota: 1,129 Turnout: 51.84% | |||||||||
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