Ardrossan (ward)
Ardrossan is one of the nine wards used to elect members of the North Ayrshire council. Created as Ardrossan and Arran in 2007, covering the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde and the coastal town of Ardrossan (the two connected by a ferry route), it originally elected four councillors.[2][3] A national boundary review prior to the 2017 local elections saw no difference in territory but one fewer seat.
After the introduction of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018, North Ayrshire's wards were re-organised for the 2022 election: a new single-member ward for Arran was created to better represent the specific needs of the small insular community of approximately 4,500; the existing ward had its name shortened to Ardrossan and still retained three councillors, although the extra territory on the mainland assigned in the re-organisation was largely farmland barely affected the population.[4][5]
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Tony Gurney (SNP) |
Peter McNamara (Labour) |
Margie Currie (Ind.) |
John Hunter (Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | John Bruce (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017[6] | Timothy Billings (Conservative) |
Ellen McMaster (SNP/ Alba) |
3 seats | |||||
| 2021 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Stewart Ferguson (Conservative) |
Amanda Kerr (Labour) | ||||||
Election Results
2022 Election
2022 North Ayrshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| SNP | Tony Gurney[AAA] | 30.9 | 1,107 | |||||||
| Labour | Amanda Kerr | 27.0 | 966 | |||||||
| Conservative | Stewart Ferguson | 19.9 | 714 | 717 | 729 | 739 | 751 | 858 | 1,013 | |
| SNP | Jim McHarg | 10.2 | 366 | 549 | 558 | 565 | 574 | 674 | ||
| Independent | John Hunter | 9.3 | 333 | 345 | 359 | 366 | 390 | |||
| Scottish Family | Matthew Lynch | 1.3 | 47 | 47 | 51 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Stephen McQuistin | 1.2 | 44 | 45 | 56 | 62 | ||||
| Electorate: 8,512 Valid: 3,577 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 895 Turnout: 42.8% | ||||||||||
2017 Election
2017 North Ayrshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Timothy Billings | 27.64% | 1,309 | ||||||
| SNP | Ellen McMaster | 19.68% | 932 | 937.02 | 1,000.97 | 1,002.63 | 1,034.82 | 1,159.76 | |
| SNP | Tony Gurney (incumbent) | 19.64% | 930 | 932.18 | 946.18 | 955.56 | 1,092.84 | 1,245.29 | |
| Labour | Clare McGuire | 13.91% | 659 | 677.75 | 723.8 | 792.94 | 979.09 | ||
| Independent | John Hunter (incumbent) | 10.62% | 503 | 517.4 | 534.44 | 627.54 | |||
| A Better Britain – Unionist Party | Gordon Allison | 5.03% | 238 | 280.34 | 285.29 | ||||
| Scottish Socialist | Colin Turbett | 3.48% | 165 | 170.4 | |||||
| Electorate: 9,622 Valid: 4,736 Spoilt: 123 Quota: 1,185 Turnout: 4,859 (50.5%) | |||||||||
2012 Election
2012 North Ayrshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Tony Gurney (incumbent) | 17.57 | 982 | 986 | 998 | 1,033 | 1,048 | 1,081 | 1,095.1 | 1,149.9 | |
| SNP | John Bruce | 14.97 | 837 | 841 | 868 | 889 | 918 | 1,109 | 1,113.2 | 1,157.4 | |
| Independent | John Hunter (incumbent) | 14.17 | 792 | 796 | 833 | 895 | 1,025 | 1,191 | |||
| Labour | Peter McNamara (incumbent) | 12.90 | 721 | 730 | 738 | 770 | 812 | 871 | 881.8 | 1,414.6 | |
| Labour | Loretta Gardner | 11.79 | 659 | 667 | 692 | 720 | 750 | 793 | 798.7 | ||
| Independent | Marc A. Head | 10.52 | 588 | 595 | 609 | 620 | 714 | ||||
| Conservative | David Tate | 8.78 | 491 | 507 | 551 | 561 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Campbell Martin | 4.20 | 235 | 237 | 250 | ||||||
| UKIP | Gordon Niven Allison | 3.95 | 221 | 227 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Nick Smith | 1.14 | 64 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 13,674 Valid: 5,590 Spoilt: 106 Quota: 1,119 Turnout: 5,696 (40.88%) | |||||||||||
2007 Election
2007 North Ayrshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Margie Currie | 1,439 | 19.3 | 2 | 4 | |
| SNP | Tony Gurney | 1,414 | 19.0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Labour | Peter McNamara | 1,007 | 13.5 | 3 | 7 | |
| Independent | John Hunter | 952 | 12.8 | 4 | 9 | |
| Conservative | Gordon Allison | 857 | 11.5 | |||
| Labour | Margaret Munn | 829 | 11.1 | |||
| SNP | William McLaren | 573 | 7.7 | |||
| Independent | Kenneth MacDougall | 228 | 3.1 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Nigel Hunter | 144 | 1.9 | |||
References
- ^ "Scottish Boundary Commission | The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland".
- ^ 4th Reviews - ward maps | North Ayrshire Overview, Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 2 May 2022
- ^ 5th Reviews - ward maps | North Ayrshire | Ward 5 Ardrossan and Arran, Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 2 May 2022
- ^ Boundary Change Extra: North Ayrshire, Ballot Box Scotland, 23 October 2021
- ^ Andy Hamilton (5 March 2022). "North Ayrshire: Changes on the way as voters get set to go to polls". Irvine Times. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
- ^ a b "Scottish Council Elections: Notice of Poll" (PDF). North Ayrshire Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 April 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ "Declaration of Results Report Ardrossan". North Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ardrossan". North Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.