Stirling Council elections

Stirling 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

As a district council

Year	SNP	Conservative	Labour	Independent
1974	4	8	7	1
1977	4	8	7	1
1980 [a]	0	9	10	1
1984	0	8	11	1
1988	0	10	10	0
1992	0	10	10	0

1. New ward boundaries. ^[1]

As a unitary authority

Year	SNP	Conservative	Labour	Green	Liberal Democrats	Independent
1995	2	7	13	0	0	0
1999 [a]	2	9	11	0	0	0
2003	0	10	12	0	0	0
2007 [b]	7	4	8	0	3	0
2012	9	4	8	1	0	0
2017 [c]	9	9	4	1	0	0
2022	8	7	6	1	0	1

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

Results maps

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  2017 results map

By-elections

2003-2007

Borestone By-Election 30 March 2006 ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Scott Farmer [5]	374	38.8	+16.5
	Labour		335	34.8	−16.1
	Liberal Democrats		165	17.1	+9.1
	Conservative		57	5.9	−5.8
	New Party		18	1.9	+1.9
	Independent		14	1.5	+1.5
Majority			39	4.0
Turnout			963
	SNP hold		Swing

2007-2012

Bannockburn By-Election 30 April 2009 ^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Violet Weir	39.9	1,131	1,134	1,141	1,162	1,175	1,196	1,288
	SNP	Bill McDonald	37.6	1,067	1,072	1,078	1,095	1,110	1,162	1,228
	Independent	Tommy Brookes	8.1	229	232	235	240	272	303
	Conservative	Catherine Berrill	6.1	173	176	178	194	201
	Independent	Breda O'Brien	3.1	89	94	96	99
	Liberal Democrats	Ethne Brown	2.9	82	83	91
	Green	Duncan Illingsworth	1.3	36	36
	Independent	Paul Campbell	1.0	28
	Labour hold
Valid: 2,835  Quota: 1,419

2012-2017

Stirling East By-Election 1 October 2015 ^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	SNP	Gerry McLaughlan	45.2	1,311	1,367	1,388
	Labour	Chris Kane	37.7	1,094	1,134	1,272
	Conservative	Luke Davison	11.8	343	352
	Green	Alasdair Tollemache	5.2	152
	SNP hold
Valid: 2,900  Spoilt: 28  Quota: 1,451  Turnout: 2,928

2017-2022

Forth and Endrick By-Election 6 May 2021 ^{[8] [9]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Conservative	Jane Hutchison	39.5	3,195	3,260	3,297	3,717	4,575
	SNP	Paul Goodwin	32.6	2,636	2,657	3,090	3,445
	Labour	Colin O'Brien	14.5	1,172	1,259	1,439
	Green	Wendy Faulkner	9.3	754	830
	Liberal Democrats	James Maclaren	4.1	332
	Conservative gain from SNP
Valid: 8,089  Spoilt: 74  Quota: 4,045  Turnout: 8,163

2022-2027

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan By-Election 16 March 2023 ^[10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Robin Kleinman	41.0	1,832	1,849	1,861	1,959	2,172	2,473
	SNP	Ahsan Khan	26.9	1,202	1,205	1,416	1,491	1,683
	Labour	David Wilson	13.4	600	609	670	871
	Liberal Democrats	Dick Moerman	8.9	399	404	475
	Green	Clare Andrews	8.7	389	390
	Scottish Family	Nickie Willis	1.1	50
	Conservative gain from SNP
Valid: 4,074  Spoilt: 26  Quota: 2,237  Turnout: 4,100

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan By-Election 25 January 2024 ^[11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Thomas Heald	37.8	1,644	1,653	1,714	1,738	1,998	2,286
	SNP	Ahsan Khan	23.3	1,000	1,006	1,037	1,266	1,531
	Labour	David Wilson	20.2	869	874	989	1,147
	Green	Clare Andrews	10.1	433	442	485
	Liberal Democrats	Dick Moerman	6.8	292	296
	Scottish Family	Michael Willis	1.2	50
	Conservative hold
Valid: 4,288  Spoilt: 27  Quota: 2,145  Turnout: 4,315

Dunblane and Bridge of Allan By-Election 15 August 2024 ^[12]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	David Wilson	23.3	952	981	1,101	1,390	1,826	2,252
	Conservative	Stuart McLuckie	27.9	1,143	1,214	1,284	1,328	1,361
	SNP	John Watson	18.8	770	793	826	1,076
	Green	Andrew Adam	16.1	659	670	760
	Liberal Democrats	Dick Moerman	8.4	345	382
	Independent	Alastair Majury	5.5	225
	Labour hold
Valid: 4,094  Spoilt: 21  Quota: 2,048  Turnout: 4,115

Bannockburn By-Election 23 January 2025 ^[13]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Bob Buchanan	35.9	565	590	597	605	664	863
	Labour	Yvonne Dickson	23.9	376	384	401	448	528
	Reform	William Docherty	22.7	358	360	367	425
	Conservative	Moira Benny	10.7	169	171	186
	Liberal Democrats	William Galloway	3.5	55	65
	Green	Marie Stadtler	3.4	53
	SNP gain from Labour
Valid: 1,576  Spoilt: 22  Quota: 789  Turnout: 1,598

Stirling East By-Election 30 October 2025 ^[14]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Josh Fyvie	36.4	808	813	827	905	988	1,245
	Labour	Yvonne Dickson	23.9	530	540	577	622	710
	Reform	William Docherty	23.3	517	523	572	578
	Green	Marie Stadtler	6.3	141	158	167
	Conservative	James Corbett	6.6	147	156
	Liberal Democrats	William Galloway	3.6	79
	SNP gain from Conservative
Electorate: 8,662  Valid: 2,222  Spoilt: 28  Quota: 1,112  Turnout: 2,250

References

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