Location of the ward [1]
Whitburn and Blackburn is one of the nine wards used to elect members of the West Lothian Council. It elects four Councillors.
Whitburn and Blackburn is one of the nine wards used to elect members of the West Lothian Council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | James Dickson (SNP) | Jim Swan (Labour) | George Paul (Labour) | Gordon Beurskens (Action to save St. John's Hospital) | ||||
| 2012 | Barry Robertson (Labour) | Mary Dickson (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour) | Bruce Fairbairn (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Kirsteen Sullivan (Labour) | Mary Dickson (SNP) | ||||||
2022 West Lothian Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Jim Dickson (incumbent) | 28.26% | 1,734 | ||||||
| Labour | George Paul (incumbent) | 20.16% | 1,237 | ||||||
| Labour | Kirsteen Sullivan | 17.21% | 1,056 | 1,069 | 1,076 | 1,122 | 1,189 | 1,747 | |
| Conservative | Bruce Fairbairn (incumbent) | 18.50% | 1,135 | 1,139 | 1,139 | 1,175 | 1,187 | ||
| SNP | Mary Robertson Dickson | 10.37% | 636 | 1,085 | 1,085 | 1,095 | 1,196 | 1,230 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Derek Pattle | 2.41% | 148 | 152 | 152 | ||||
| Green | Carole Racionzer | 3.10% | 190 | 203 | 204 | 231 | |||
| Electorate: 16,945 Valid: 6,136 Spoilt: 204 Quota: 1,228 Turnout: 37.4% [4] | |||||||||
2017 West Lothian Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | George Paul (incumbent) | 28.08% | 1,822 | |||||||
| SNP | Jim Dickson (incumbent) | 24.44% | 1,586 | |||||||
| Conservative | Bruce Fairbairn | 21.99% | 1,427 | |||||||
| Labour | Kirsteen Sullivan | 8.59% | 557 | 1,015 | 1,020 | 1,054 | 1,149 | 1,209 | 1,486 | |
| SNP | Mary Dickson (incumbent) | 7.75% | 503 | 519 | 742 | 744 | 766 | 1,129 | ||
| SNP | John Leslie | 6.47% | 420 | 426 | 468 | 470 | 481 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Bob Howden | 2.68% | 174 | 182 | 186 | 224 | ||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 6,489 Spoilt: 175 Quota: 1,298 Turnout: 42.6% | ||||||||||
2012 West Lothian Council election [7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | George Paul (incumbent) | 32.59 | 1,896 | ||||||||
| SNP | Jim Dickson (incumbent) | 27.68 | 1,610 | ||||||||
| Labour | Barry Robertson | 11.96 | 696 | 1,356.2 | |||||||
| Action to Save St John's Hospital | George Beurskens (incumbent) | 10.64 | 619 | 639.8 | 668.9 | 712.4 | 729.7 | 760.3 | 886.4 | ||
| SNP | Mary Dickson | 9.66 | 562 | 575.1 | 964 | 986.7 | 996.9 | 1,012.3 | 1,058.5 | 1,317.4 | |
| Conservative | Stuart Martin | 4.66 | 271 | 273.3 | 277.5 | 287.6 | 312.2 | 337.1 | |||
| National Front | Neil McIvor | 1.63 | 95 | 98.5 | 100.7 | 104.5 | 108.6 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Robert Durie Howden | 1.17 | 68 | 72.2 | 75.8 | 83.7 | |||||
| Electorate: 11,239 Valid: 5,817 Spoilt: 108 Quota: 1,164 Turnout: 5,925 (41.75%) | |||||||||||
2007 West Lothian Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | James Dickson | 1,981 | 27.1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Jim Swan | 1,528 | 20.9 | 2 | 1 | |
| Labour | George Paul | 1,367 | 18.7 | 3 | 5 | |
| Action to Save St John's Hospital | Gordon Beurskens | 851 | 11.7 | 4 | 8 | |
| SNP | Mary Dickson | 507 | 6.9 | |||
| Conservative | Alistair Lowrie | 435 | 6.0 | |||
| Independent | Tony Fairley | 309 | 4.2 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Bob Howden | 222 | 3.0 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Mark Eccles | 98 | 1.3 | |||
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