Location of the ward [1]
Torry/Ferryhill is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeen City Council. It elects four Councillors.
Torry/Ferryhill is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeen City Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Irene Cormack (Liberal Democrats) | Alan Donnelly (Conservative) | Yvonne Allan (Labour) | Jim Kiddie (SNP) | ||||
| 2012 | Graham Robert Dickson (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Christian Allard (SNP) | Catriona MacKenzie (SNP) | ||||||
| 2019 by-election | Audrey Nicoll (SNP) | |||||||
| 2022 | Michael Kusznir (Conservative) | Simon Peter Watson (Labour) | Lee Fairfull (SNP) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Christian Allard (incumbent) | 32.9 | 1,646 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Michael Kusznir | 19.4 | 970 | 975 | 982 | 988 | 996 | 1,023 | |||
| Aberdeen Labour | Simon Peter Watson | 17.3 | 864 | 894 | 897 | 900 | 904 | 966 | 972 | 1,138 | |
| Green | Esme Houston | 7.8 | 390 | 433 | 433 | 438 | 458 | 513 | 514 | 566 | |
| SNP | Lee Fairfull | 6.9 | 344 | 824 | 825 | 833 | 891 | 928 | 929 | 950 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gregor McAbery | 6.4 | 318 | 327 | 329 | 336 | 339 | 372 | 379 | ||
| Independent | Simon McLean | 4.8 | 238 | 247 | 252 | 305 | 331 | ||||
| Alba | Brian Allan | 2.5 | 123 | 142 | 146 | 148 | |||||
| Independent | Paul Dawson | 1.5 | 77 | 85 | 87 | ||||||
| Libertarian | Oren Katz | 0.5 | 27 | 27 | |||||||
| Electorate: 15,012 Valid: 4,997 Spoilt: 123 Quota: 1,000 Turnout: 34.1% | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Audrey Nicoll | 43.2 | 1,618 | 1,620 | 1,624 | 1,673 | 1,819 | 1,989 | |
| Conservative | Neil Murray | 26.0 | 972 | 983 | 996 | 1,049 | 1,083 | 1,151 | |
| Labour | Willie Young | 10.6 | 395 | 396 | 402 | 462 | 533 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Gregor McAbery | 8.4 | 315 | 320 | 324 | ||||
| Green | Betty Lyon | 8.1 | 304 | 320 | 347 | 429 | |||
| Independent | Simon McLean | 2.3 | 86 | 89 | |||||
| UKIP | Roy Hill | 1.4 | 53 | ||||||
| Electorate: 15,443 Valid: 3,743 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 1,872 Turnout: 3,783 (24.5%) | |||||||||
2017 Aberdeen City Council election [4]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Conservative | Alan Donnelly (incumbent)‡‡ | 26.1 | 1,337 | |||||||||
| SNP | Christian Allard | 17.8 | 910 | 913.6 | 914.6 | 920.7 | 963.9 | 988.4 | 1,013.4 | 1,037.7 | 1,159.3 | |
| SNP | Catriona MacKenzie‡‡‡‡‡ | 16.5 | 847 | 851.2 | 851.2 | 854.2 | 915.4 | 956.4 | 1,001.4 | 1,017.3 | 1,143.1 | |
| Labour | Yvonne Allan (incumbent)‡ | 16.5 | 843 | 873.7 | 873.7 | 881.4 | 908.9 | 989.7 | 1,324.2 | |||
| Independent | David Fryer | 11.3 | 580 | 616.7 | 619.8 | 629.2 | 681.2 | 754.7 | 799.0 | 846.3 | ||
| Labour | Piotr Teodorowski | 9.1 | 467 | 474.8 | 474.8 | 476.8 | 499.09 | 547.4 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Gregor McAbery | 5.6 | 286 | 332.7 | 333.7 | 340.01 | 377.5 | |||||
| Green | Renée Slater | 5.3 | 269 | 274.7 | 275.7 | 282.8 | ||||||
| UKIP | William McIntosh | 1.0 | 49 | 65.7 | ||||||||
| National Front | Billy Watson | 0.2 | 10 | 10.5 | ||||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 5,598 Spoilt: 144 Quota: 1,120 Turnout: 5,742 (37.8%) | ||||||||||||
2012 Aberdeen City Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Labour | Yvonne Allan (incumbent) | 26.4% | 1,134 | ||||||||||
| SNP | Graham Robert Dickson | 16.5% | 706 | 726.2 | 726.2 | 729.4 | 734.2 | 741.7 | 755.1 | 768.6 | 804.4 | 862.1 | |
| Conservative | Alan Donnelly (incumbent)† | 15.3% | 657 | 663.8 | 663.8 | 667.8 | 677.1 | 684.8 | 690.8 | 715.3 | 819.5 | 890.5 | |
| SNP | Jim Kiddie (incumbent) | 14.4% | 619 | 631.7 | 631.7 | 634.7 | 640.1 | 649.6 | 667.6 | 692.6 | 730.1 | 797.8 | |
| Labour | Kathryn Russell | 8.0% | 345 | 523.6 | 524.6 | 527.4 | 531.3 | 548.3 | 575.4 | 610.4 | 704.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Robertson * | 7.7% | 331 | 335.9 | 335.9 | 335.9 | 340.9 | 346.4 | 376.3 | 400.8 | |||
| Independent | David Fryer | 3.9% | 169 | 173.9 | 177.1 | 177.1 | 197.6 | 234.5 | 257 | ||||
| Green | Andrew Reekie | 3.1% | 131 | 137.3 | 139.6 | 139.8 | 139.8 | 154.3 | |||||
| Independent | Suzanne Kelly | 2.1% | 91 | 101.2 | 108.2 | 111.2 | 124.9 | ||||||
| Independent | William Brown | 1.4% | 61 | 67.3 | 71.3 | 72.3 | |||||||
| National Front | Billy Watson | 0.5% | 23 | 24.9 | 24.9 | ||||||||
| Independent | Hamish Hay MacKay | 0.5% | 21 | 21.5 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 14,625 Valid: 4,288 Spoilt: 118 Quota: 858 Turnout: 4,406 (29.32%) | |||||||||||||
2007 Aberdeen City Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Jim Kiddie | 30.9 | 1,900 | ||||||||
| Labour | Yvonne Allan | 20.7 | 1,275 | 1,275 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Irene Cormack | 17.5 | 1,077 | 1,155 | 1,160 | 1,169 | 1,202 | 1,397 | |||
| Conservative | Alan Donnelly | 11.9 | 729 | 757 | 758 | 762 | 796 | 818 | 846 | 889 | |
| Green | John Reekie | 4.7 | 287 | 386 | 388 | 431 | 476 | 528 | 564 | 672 | |
| Labour | Ted Harris | 5.7 | 348 | 415 | 440 | 458 | 478 | 511 | 538 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Tony Petchey | 4.4 | 270 | 334 | 335 | 345 | 364 | ||||
| Independent | Chris Cowie | 2.6 | 163 | 198 | 199 | 219 | |||||
| Solidarity | Shug Falconer | 1.7 | 102 | 150 | 151 | ||||||
| Electorate: Valid: 6,151 Spoilt: 112 Quota: 1,231 Turnout: 6,263 | |||||||||||
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