South Ayrshire Council elections

South Ayrshire Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007.

Council elections

Year	Conservative	SNP	Labour	Independent
1995	4	0	21	0
1999 [a]	13	0	17	0
2003	15	0	15	0
2007 [b]	12	8	9	1
2012	10	9	9	2
2017 [c]	12	9	5	2
2022 [d]	10	9	5	4

1. New ward boundaries. ^[1]
2. Change to single transferable vote system and new ward boundaries.
3. New ward boundaries. ^[2]
4. New ward boundaries. ^[3]

Results maps

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  1995 results map
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  1999 results map
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  2003 results map
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  2007 results map
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  2012 results map
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  2017 results map
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  2022 results map

By-elections

2003-2007

Dundonald and Loans By-Election 15 January 2004 ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Spurling	1,072	55.8	+2.4
	Labour	Sandra Marshall	506	26.4	−1.1
	SNP	Nan McFarlane	242	12.6	−6.5
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart Ritchie	100	5.2	+5.2
Majority			566	29.5
Turnout			1,920
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Carrick and Maybole East By-Election 2 February 2006 ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Brian Connolly	408	27.7	+27.7
	Conservative	Ann Galbraith	407	27.6	−0.4
	Labour	Sandra Goldie	342	23.2	−23.7
	SNP	William McCubbin	316	21.5	+1.0
Majority			1	0.1
Turnout			1,473
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

2012-2017

Ayr East By-Election 17 September 2015 ^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	SNP	John Wallace	38.0	1,507	1,540	1,600	1,775
	Conservative	Dan McCroskrie	38.5	1,527	1,534	1,589	1,740
	Labour	Susan Wilson	16.2	642	654	708
	Independent	Andrew Bryden	5.5	218	227
	Green	Boyd Murdoch	1.9	76
	SNP hold
Valid: 3,970  Spoilt: 36  Quota: 1,986  Turnout: 4,006

2022-2027

Girvan and South Carrick By-Election 21 September 2023 ^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Conservative	Alan Lamont	47.5	1,315	1,323	1,346	1,497
	SNP	Joseph McLaughlin	28.1	778	802	824	947
	Labour	Nicola Saxton	18.0	499	507	551
	Liberal Democrats	Jamie Ross	3.9	108	113
	Alba	Denise Sommerville	2.5	70
	Conservative gain from Labour
Valid: 2,770  Spoilt: 32  Quota: 1,386  Turnout: 2,802

Ayr North By-Election 16 October 2025 ^[8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Independent	Wullie Hogg	25.1	850	864	871	924	952	1,138	1,325	1,699
	SNP	Ian Douglas	23.3	790	802	818	835	847	898	1,075
	Labour	John Duncan	20.4	691	696	713	738	775	830
	Reform	Andrew Russell	17.2	584	584	589	607	642
	Conservative	David Paterson	5.7	195	196	199	211
	Independent	David Petrie	4.5	151	157	160
	Liberal Democrats	Mason Graham	2.1	73	74
	Independent	Orhan Bulikj	1.5	51
	Independent hold
Valid: 3,385  Spoilt: 37  Quota: 1,693  Turnout: 3,422

References

1. "Third Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements - South Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
2. "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements Final Recommendations - South Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
3. "South Ayrshire Council Area Final Proposals" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
4. "South Ayrshire Council - Council Election Results 2004". South Ayrshire Council. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
5. "South Ayrshire Council - Council Election Results 2006". South Ayrshire Council. Archived from the original on 19 November 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
6. "Ayr East by-election, 2015". Scottish Elections. Retrieved 6 November 2025.{{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help)
7. Faulds, Allan. "By-Election Result: Girvan and South Carrick". Ballot Box Scotland. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
8. "LGBE 2025 Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 3 Ayr North" (PDF). South Ayrshire Council. 17 October 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.