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Elgin City North is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Moray Council. It elects three Councillors.
Elgin City North is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Moray Council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Mike Shand (SNP) | John Russell (Ind.) | Barry Jarvis (Labour) | |||||
| 2012 | Patsy Gowans (SNP) | |||||||
| 2014 by | Kirsty Reid (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Paula Coy (SNP) | Sandy Cooper (Ind.) | Frank Brown (Conservative) | |||||
| 2019 by | Maria McLean (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | Jérémie Fernandes (SNP) | Sandy Keith (Labour) | Amber Dunbar (Conservative) | |||||
| Candidate | Party | |
|---|---|---|
| Neil Alexander | Liberal Democrat | |
| Amber Dunbar | Conservative | |
| Jérémie Fernandes | SNP | |
| Graham Jarvis | Independent | |
| Rebecca Jane Kail | Green | |
| Sandy Keith | Labour | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Conservative | Maria McLean | 40.0 | 923 | 970 | 1,061 | |
| SNP | Patsy Gowans | 38.8 | 895 | 904 | 994 | |
| Labour | Nick Taylor | 15.8 | 365 | 389 | ||
| Independent | Terry Monaghan | 5.4 | 124 | |||
| Electorate: 9,354 Valid: 2,307 Spoilt: 17 Quota: 1153.5 Turnout: 2,324 (24.8%) | ||||||
2017 Moray Council election [2]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Frank Brown | 32.9 | 1,181 | ||||||
| Independent | Sandy Cooper† | 14.9 | 532 | 605.9 | 767.2 | 932.5 | |||
| SNP | Paula Coy | 17.7 | 634 | 639.3 | 671.5 | 713.7 | 719.5 | 1,278.9 | |
| SNP | Patsy Gowans (incumbent) | 15 | 537 | 539.7 | 556.6 | 630.4 | 633.8 | ||
| Labour | Nick Taylor | 11.9 | 429 | 477.2 | 535.9 | ||||
| Independent | Billy Adams | 7.4 | 266 | 338.9 | |||||
| Electorate: 9,237 Valid: 3,579 Spoilt: 65 Quota: 895 Turnout: 3,644 (39.5%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Kirsty Ella Reid | 37.96 | 728 | 748 | 764 | 773 | 850 | |
| Independent | Sandy Cooper | 24.61 | 472 | 483 | 499 | 595 | 693 | |
| Labour | Craig Graham | 14.96 | 287 | 305 | 316 | 368 | ||
| Conservative | Alex Griffiths | 14.23 | 273 | 280 | 299 | |||
| UKIP | Ramsay Urquhart | 4.22 | 81 | 84 | ||||
| Green | Morvern Forrest | 4.01 | 77 | |||||
| Electorate: 9,263 Valid: 1,918 Spoilt: 20 Quota: 960 Turnout: (20.9%) 1,938 | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Labour | Barry Jarvis (incumbent) ††† | 29.85% | 766 | |||||
| SNP | Mike Shand (incumbent) | 23.23% | 596 | 612.5 | 661.7 | |||
| SNP | Patsy Gowans | 20.07% | 515 | 526.9 | 550.4 | 566.8 | 688.3 | |
| Conservative | Frank Brown | 17.46% | 448 | 466.9 | 565.8 | 566.3 | ||
| Independent | Darren Margach | 9.39% | 241 | 274.2 | ||||
| Electorate: 8,386 Valid: 2,566 Spoilt: 31 Quota: 642 Turnout: 2,597 (30.6%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Mike Shand | 1,500 | 41.33 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Barry Jarvis | 866 | 23.86 | 2 | 2 | |
| Independent | John Russell | 671 | 18.50 | 3 | 2 | |
| Conservative | Frank Brown | 592 | 16.31 | |||
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