South Kintyre (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

South Kintyre is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		John Armour (SNP)		Donald Kelly (Conservative /Ind.)		Rory Colville (Liberal Democrats)
2012
2017
2022					Tommy MacPherson (Conservative)
2023	Jennifer Kelly (Ind.)

Election results

2023 by-election

South Kintyre − 1 seat (2 November 2023)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Independent	Jennifer Kelly	57.3	913
	SNP	John Richardson	17.0	271
	Conservative	Joe Cunningham	13.0	208
	Liberal Democrats	Kenny MacKenzie	11.4	183
	Freedom Alliance (UK)	Alan McManus	0.4	7
Electorate: 5,088  Valid: 1,582  Spoilt: 10  Quota: 792  Turnout: 31.3%

Source: ^{[2] [3]}

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Argyll and Bute Council election

South Kintyre − 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Independent	Donald Kelly (incumbent)	35.9	848
	SNP	John Armour (incumbent)	32.8	773
	Conservative	Tommy MacPherson	22.5	531	615
	Liberal Democrats	Rory Colville (incumbent)	8.7	206	310
Electorate: 5,123  Valid: 2,358  Spoilt: 47  Quota: 590  Turnout: 46.9%

Source: ^{[4] [5]}

2017 election

2017 Argyll and Bute Council election ^[6]

South Kintyre - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	SNP	John Armour (incumbent)		unopposed
	Liberal Democrats	Rory Colville (incumbent)		unopposed
	Conservative	Donald Kelly (incumbent)		unopposed
Quota:

2012 election

2012 Argyll and Bute Council election ^[7]

South Kintyre - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Donald Kelly (incumbent)	45.87%	1,133
	SNP	John Donald Semple (incumbent) ††††	16.80%	415	507.3	517.5	551.5	696.7
	Liberal Democrats	Rory Colville (incumbent)	14.21%	351	519.2	535.1	570.3	595.7	613.7	728.3
	SNP	Anne Baird	8.22%	203	216.6	224.4	234.2
	Independent	Robert Graham	6.72%	167	221.9	246.9	315.9	338.7	354.9
	Independent	George Rahman	5.59%	138	192.5	205.5
	Independent	Deirdre Henderson	2.55%	63	85.3
Electorate: 5,278  Valid: 2,470  Spoilt: 40  Quota: 618  Turnout: 2,510 (46.8%)

2007 election

2007 Argyll and Bute Council election ^[8]

South Kintyre

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Donald Kelly	1,332	42.9	1	1
	SNP	John Donald Semple	663	21.3	2	4
	Labour	George McMillan	444	14.3
	Liberal Democrats	Rory Colville	441	14.2	3	6
	Conservative	James Campbell Martin	152	4.9
	Solidarity	Deirdre Henderson	76	2.4

References

1. "ArcGIS Web Application".
2. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 1 South Kintyre By-election" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 3 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
3. "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 1 South Kintyre By-election" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 3 November 2023. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
4. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 1 South Kintyre" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
5. "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 1 South Kintyre" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
6. "Local Government Election 4 May 2017 results". 8 May 2017.
7. "Argyll and Bute Council Election results 2012". 8 May 2020.
8. "Local Government Elections 2007: Declaration of Result Aygyll an Bute Council" (PDF). p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2023.