Stirling East (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Stirling East is one of the seven wards used to elect members of the Stirling Council. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Steven Paterson (SNP)		Corrie McChord (Labour)		Ian Brown (Liberal Democrats)
2012
2017	Allison Laurie (SNP)	Chris Kane (Labour)		Bryan Flanagan (Conservative)
2022	Gerry McLaughlan (SNP)
2024			Willie Ferguson (SNP)

Election Results

2022 Election

2022 Stirling Council election

Stirling East - 3 seats ^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Gerry McLaughlan	30.7	1,177
	Conservative	Bryan Flannagan (incumbent)	23.3	893	895.0	905.0	925.0	931.2	999.2
	Labour	Chris Kane (incumbent)	21.6	829	839.4	848.4	877.7	933.9	1,019.6
	SNP	Grant Thoms	8.0	306	488.4	497.4	502.2	578.7	650.0
	Independent	Gary McGrow	7.9	303	305.8	310.8	323.0	359.7
	Scottish Green	Linda Hendry	4.7	182	189.8	194.1	213.9
	Liberal Democrats	Gordon Murphy	2.4	91	93.2	98.2
	Scottish Family	David Tortolano	1.4	53	53.6
Electorate: 8,587  Valid: 3,834  Spoilt: 71  Quota: 959  Turnout: 45.5%

2017 Election

2017 Stirling Council election ^[3]

Stirling East - 3 seats ^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Alison Laurie	24.2	916	920	962
	Conservative	Bryan Flanagan	21.3	806	825	833	833.2	848.2	883.0	1060.0
	Labour	Chris Kane	19.8	751	768	797	797.7	1,153.8
	SNP	Gerry McLaughlan (incumbent)	17.9	678	680	705	717.9	739.0	774.8
	Labour	Corrie McChord (incumbent)	11.0	416	427	440	440.3
	Scottish Green	Linda Hendry	3.3	125	150
	Liberal Democrats	William Galloway	2.5	94
Electorate: 8,479  Valid: 3,786  Spoilt: 93  Quota: 947  Turnout: 45.7%

2012 Election

2012 Stirling Council election ^[5]

Stirling East - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Steven Paterson (incumbent)†	33.06	1,278
	Labour	Corrie McChord (incumbent)	22.30	862	925.8	961.6	992.2
	Labour	Danny Gibson	22.19	858	892.6	929.1	957.6	978.3
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Alexander Brown (incumbent)	10.42	403	436.3	507.9	642	642.9
	Conservative	Benjamin Kerr	7.81	302	320.5	333.2
	Scottish Green	Johannes Butscher	4.22	163	224.6
Electorate: 8,611  Valid: 3,866  Spoilt: 77  Quota: 967  Turnout: 3,943 (41.09%)

2007 Election

2007 Stirling Council election ^[6]

Stirling council election, 2007: Stirling East

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Steven Paterson	1,821	32.9	1	1
	Labour	Corrie McChord	1,396	25.2	2	1
	Labour	Charles McKean	779	14.0
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Brown	765	13.8	3	4
	Conservative	Helen Scott	764	13.8

References

1. "Ward overviews | Scottish Borders Council".
2. "Ward 6 - Stirling East results" (PDF). stirling.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
3. "Local Government Election 2017 results".
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
5. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2012 - Scottish Borders".
6. "Local Elections Archive Project - 2007 - Scottish Borders".