Location of the ward [1]
Strathearn is one of the twelve wards used to elect members of the Perth and Kinross Council. It elects three Councillors.
Strathearn is one of the twelve wards used to elect members of the Perth and Kinross Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Anne Younger (SNP) | Anne Cowan (Conservative) | Helen McDonald (Conservative) | |||||
| 2012 | Rhona Black (Perth Ind.) | |||||||
| 2017 | Stewart Donaldson (SNP) | Roz McCall (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Noah Khogali (Conservative) | |||||||
2022 Perth and Kinross Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Conservative | Noah Khogali | 29.94% | 1,337 | ||||
| Independent | Rhona Brock (incumbent) | 27.41% | 1,224 | ||||
| SNP | Stewart Donaldson (incumbent) | 24.23% | 1,082 | 1,086.77 | 1,104.95 | 1,137.27 | |
| SNP | David West | 8.76% | 391 | 393.14 | 396.72 | 402.83 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Julia Brown | 5.84% | 261 | 327.47 | 354.92 | 452.71 | |
| Independent | Roger Cartwright | 3.83% | 171 | 237.97 | 276.17 | ||
| Electorate: 8,672 Valid: 4,466 Quota: 1,117 Turnout: 52.4% | |||||||
2017 Perth and Kinross Council election [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Roz McCall | 26.54 | 1,204 | |||||||
| Independent | Rhona Brock (incumbent) | 24.51 | 1,112 | 1,115.72 | 1,144.78 | |||||
| SNP | Stewart Donaldson | 13.34 | 605 | 605.11 | 608.11 | 609.08 | 681.3 | 715.67 | 1,204.12 | |
| Conservative | Alex Menzies-Runciman | 13.01 | 590 | 651.37 | 670.43 | 672.64 | 686.92 | 764.31 | 769.32 | |
| SNP | John Fellows | 10.6 | 481 | 481 | 485 | 485.55 | 513.66 | 537.82 | ||
| Independent | Craig Finlay | 6.06 | 275 | 275.86 | 279.92 | 283.26 | 317.53 | |||
| Green | Lawrence Buckley | 4.12 | 187 | 187.29 | 199.34 | 200.38 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Tina Ng-A-Mann | 1.81 | 82 | 82.29 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,536 Spoilt: 121 Quota: 1,135 Turnout: 4,656 (54.4%) | ||||||||||
2012 Perth and Kinross Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SNP | Anne Younger (incumbent) | 30.82% | 1,137 | ||||
| Conservative | Ann Cowan (incumbent) | 23.69% | 874 | 889 | 910 | 946 | |
| Perth Independent Candidates Party | Rhona Brock | 18.27% | 674 | 742 | 779 | 939 | |
| Conservative | Bob Ferguson | 15.59% | 575 | 588 | 599 | 640 | |
| Labour | Alastair McLean | 8.76% | 323 | 356 | 389 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Kenneth Robertson Spittal | 2.87% | 106 | 125 | |||
| Electorate: - Valid: 3,689 Spoilt: 30 Quota: 923 Turnout: 3,719 (%) | |||||||
2007 Perth and Kinross Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Anne Younger | 25.18 | 1,210 | ||||||
| Conservative | Ann Cowan | 23.80 | 1,144 | 1,145 | 1,200 | 1,329 | |||
| Conservative | Helen McDonald | 18.39 | 884 | 885 | 935 | 998 | 1,094 | 1,500 | |
| Independent | Rhona Brock | 13.28 | 638 | 640 | 723 | 985 | 996 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Russell Auld | 13.21 | 635 | 637 | 671 | ||||
| Independent | Colin Crabbie | 6.14 | 295 | 296 | |||||
| Electorate: 8,102 Valid: 4,806 Spoilt: 101 Quota: 1,202 Turnout: 60.58% | |||||||||
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