2022 Dundee City Council election
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The 2022 Dundee City Council election took place on 5 May 2022, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.[1] Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system, a form of proportional representation used since the 2007 election and according to the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.[1]
The election resulted in the SNP gaining a majority, winning 15 seats after gaining a seat from Labour in the West End. Labour came second with no seat change from the last election, the Liberal Democrats gained two seats, rounding their total up to four and the Conservatives fell to fourth place, losing two seats making Derek Scott, the group leader, the sole councillor elected to the council. The sole Alba Party councillor, Alan Ross, who defected from the SNP, failed to retain his seat.
After the election, the SNP's Bill Campbell and Kevin Cordell were appointed Lord Provost and Deputy Lord Provost on 20 May 2022.[2]
Background
[edit]Previous election
[edit]At the previous election in 2017, the Scottish National Party (SNP) won 14 seats and as a result, was the largest party. Despite two losses, the SNP continued to govern however, they no longer held a majority after the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats made gains.[3] Labour was the second-largest party on the council with 9 seats, the Conservatives won 3 seats, up two and the Liberal Democrats won 2 seats, up one.
Composition
[edit]After the 2017 election, several changes in the composition of the council happened. Most were changes to the political affiliation of councillors including North East councillor Gregor Murray who resigned from the SNP in May 2019 after accusing the party of being transphobic[4] and Lochee councillor Alan Ross who first left the SNP to become an independent before defecting to Alba in February 2022, making him the first Alba councillor in Dundee City Council.[5] A single by-election was held which resulted in an SNP gain from Labour.[6]
Party | 2017 election | Dissolution | |
---|---|---|---|
SNP | 14 | 13 | |
Labour | 9 | 8 | |
Conservative | 3 | 3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2 | 2 | |
Independent | 1 | 2 | |
Alba | - | 1 |
Retiring councillors
[edit]There were four councillors elected at the 2017 election which will depart ahead of the 2022 election.
Ward | Party | Retiring councillor | |
---|---|---|---|
Strathmartine | Independent | Ian Borthwick | |
Coldside | SNP | Anne Rendall | |
North East | Independent[a] | Gregor Murray | |
East End | Labour | Margaret Richardson |
Debates and hustings
[edit]Ahead of the election, a series of debates and hustings were held throughout the campaign period. DC Thomson hosted an election debate on 21 April 2022 which was moderated by Derek Healey, the political editor of The Courier. The debate featured only leaders and representatives of the five parties on the council and an appeal for questions to be considered were featured.[7][8] It was announced shortly after that the debate would be streamed on The Courier's social media pages on 25 April 2022.
A husting took place on 27 April 2022 which was organised and moderated by the Dundee Social Enterprise Network. The hustings featured representatives of the four parties on the council along with the inclusion of the Scottish Greens but not the Alba Party.[9]
Date | Organisers | Moderator(s) | P Present[b] S Surrogate[c] NI Not invited A Absent invitee INV Invited | ||||||||
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SNP | Labour | Conservatives | Lib Dems | Greens | Alba | Audience | Ref. | ||||
21 April | DC Thomson | Derek Healey[d] | P Alexander | S McCready[e] | P Scott[f] | P MacPherson[g] | P Jones[h] | P Ross[i] | Virtual | [7] | |
27 April | Dundee SEN | S Short[j] | S McCready[k] | S MacKenzie[l] | S Crichton[m] | P Jones[n] | NI | Yes | [9] |
Results
[edit]Overall
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | 15 | 1 | 0 | ![]() | 51.72 | 41.40 | 18,302 | ![]() | |
Labour | 9 | 1 | 1 | ![]() | 31.03 | 22.03 | 9,740 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | 4 | 2 | 0 | ![]() | 13.79 | 16.54 | 7,312 | ![]() | |
Conservative | 1 | 0 | 2 | ![]() | 3.45 | 11.00 | 4,861 | ![]() | |
Scottish Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.00 | 5.74 | 2,538 | ![]() | |
Alba | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.00 | 2.38 | 1,053 | New | |
Scottish Family | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.00 | 0.61 | 268 | New | |
TUSC | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.00 | 0.21 | 95 | ![]() | |
Sovereignty | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.00 | 0.09 | 38 | New |
Votes summary
[edit]15 | 9 | 4 | 1 |
SNP | Labour | LD | Conservative |
Ward summary
[edit]Ward | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Lab | Conservative | Lib Dem | Green | Others | ||||||||
Strathmartine | 45.4% | 2 | 22.8% | 1 | 5.9% | 0 | 18.7% | 1 | 3.3% | 0 | 3.2% | 0 | 4 |
Lochee | 43.2% | 2 | 35.8% | 2 | 8.4% | 0 | 3.1% | 0 | 3.1% | 0 | 5.3% | 0 | 4 |
West End | 31.3% | 2 | 10.9% | 0 | 6.7% | 0 | 40.3% | 2 | 9.4% | 0 | 1.4% | 0 | 4 |
Coldside | 44.5% | 2 | 31.1% | 2 | 7.9% | 0 | 3.1% | 0 | 9.9% | 0 | 3.4% | 0 | 4 |
Maryfield | 47.4% | 2 | 22.6% | 1 | 8.8% | 0 | 4.7% | 0 | 10.6% | 0 | 5.9% | 0 | 3 |
North East | 56.5% | 2 | 26.6% | 1 | 8.3% | 0 | 2.6% | 0 | 3.3% | 0 | 2.6% | 0 | 3 |
East End | 52.8% | 2 | 26.0% | 1 | 10.7% | 0 | 2.8% | 0 | 4.1% | 0 | 3.7% | 0 | 3 |
The Ferry | 27.6% | 1 | 10.0% | 1 | 23.0% | 1 | 34.7% | 1 | 3.0% | 0 | 1.7% | 0 | 4 |
Total | 41.39% | 15 | 22.03% | 9 | 10.99% | 1 | 16.54% | 4 | 5.74% | 0 | 3.29% | 0 | 29 |
Incumbents defeated
[edit]Ward | Party | Defeated Councillor | |
---|---|---|---|
Lochee | Alba | Alan Ross | |
West End | Conservative | Donald Hay | |
West End | Labour | Richard McCready | |
The Ferry | Conservative | Philip Scott |
Ward results
[edit]Strathmartine
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
SNP | John Alexander (incumbent) | 36.0 | 2,143 | |||
Labour | Kevin Keenan (incumbent) | 22.8 | 1,359 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Daniel Coleman | 18.7 | 1,116 | 1,169 | 1,226 | |
SNP | Stewart Hunter (incumbent) | 9.4 | 559 | 1,310 | ||
Conservative | Calum Walker | 5.9 | 351 | 353 | 366 | |
Scottish Green | Callum Baird | 3.3 | 199 | 268 | 284 | |
Alba | Laura Whyte | 1.8 | 105 | 120 | 125 | |
Scottish Family | Susan Ettle | 1.4 | 81 | 86 | 91 | |
TUSC | Maddie Jamieson | 0.7 | 43 | 46 | 60 | |
Electorate: 15,266 Valid: 5,956 Spoilt: 168 Quota: 1,192 Turnout: 40.1% |
Lochee
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
SNP | Roisin Smith (incumbent) | 37.2 | 2,174 | ||||||||
Labour | Charlie Malone (incumbent) | 28.7 | 1,678 | ||||||||
Conservative | Gavin MacKenzie | 8.0 | 488 | 492 | 505 | 531 | 543 | 543 | 603 | 623 | |
Labour | Wendy Scullin | 7.0 | 412 | 448 | 820 | 846 | 872 | 876 | 935 | 1,085 | |
SNP | Siobhan Tolland | 6.0 | 351 | 1,128 | 1,137 | 1,144 | 1,204 | ||||
Scottish Green | Kate Treharne | 4.0 | 244 | 308 | 318 | 326 | 369 | 383 | 438 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Bremner | 3.1 | 184 | 196 | 221 | 244 | 255 | 256 | |||
Alba | Alan Ross (incumbent) | 3.1 | 184 | 208 | 220 | 230 | |||||
Electorate: 14,912 Valid: 5,843 Spoilt: 179 Quota: 1,169 Turnout: 40.4% |
West End
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Fraser MacPherson (incumbent) | 37.4 | 2,146 | |||||||
SNP | Nadia El-Nakla | 16.1 | 924 | 961 | 964 | 974 | 978 | 1,127 | ||
SNP | Bill Campbell (incumbent) | 15.2 | 872 | 922 | 923 | 939 | 946 | 1,058 | 1,119 | |
Labour | Richard McCready (incumbent) | 10.9 | 624 | 731 | 734 | 740 | 831 | 928 | 931 | |
Scottish Green | Ted Booth | 9.4 | 536 | 565 | 566 | 577 | 593 | |||
Conservative | Donald Hay (incumbent) | 6.7 | 386 | 453 | 453 | 547 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Michael Crichton | 2.9 | 165 | 821 | 823 | 836 | 1,021 | 1,102 | 1,105 | |
Alba | Annie Jenkins | 1.1 | 54 | 68 | 72 | |||||
ISP | Brooke Labagh | 0.3 | 14 | 17 | ||||||
Electorate: 14,626 Valid: 5,732 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 1,147 Turnout: 39.9% |
Coldside
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
SNP | Heather Anderson | 31.1 | 1,737 | |||||||
Labour | George McIrvine (incumbent) | 17.2 | 960 | 970 | 982 | 987 | 1,011 | 1,044 | 1,155 | |
Labour | Helen Wright (incumbent) | 13.9 | 777 | 785 | 797 | 812 | 822 | 854 | 937 | |
SNP | Mark Flynn (incumbent) | 13.4 | 751 | 1,275 | ||||||
Scottish Green | Tanya Jones | 9.9 | 551 | 584 | 636 | 656 | 702 | 764 | 808 | |
Conservative | Naveed Ali | 7.9 | 444 | 446 | 448 | 450 | 463 | 485 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Jenny Blain | 3.1 | 176 | 179 | 183 | 185 | 195 | |||
Alba | Scott Agnew | 2.5 | 141 | 150 | 164 | 165 | ||||
TUSC | Wayne Scott | 0.9 | 52 | 52 | 56 | |||||
Electorate: 14,893 Valid: 5,589 Spoilt: 238 Quota: 1,118 Turnout: 39.1% |
Maryfield
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
SNP | Ken Lynn (incumbent) | 24.6 | 1,037 | 1,037 | 1,042 | 1,093 | |
SNP | Lynne Short (incumbent) | 22.8 | 960 | 962 | 974 | 1,005 | |
Labour | Georgia Cruickshank (incumbent) | 22.6 | 956 | 957 | 1,017 | 1,062 | |
Scottish Green | Martha Smart | 10.6 | 446 | 453 | 493 | 517 | |
Conservative | Danielle Marr | 8.8 | 371 | 376 | 414 | 430 | |
Alba | Sundas Kamran | 5.1 | 214 | 218 | 226 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Rebecca Dewar | 4.7 | 198 | 202 | |||
Sovereignty | Ewan Gurr | 0.8 | 34 | ||||
Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,213 Quota: 1,054 |
North East
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ||||
SNP | Steven Rome (incumbent) | 30.4 | 1,150 | |
Labour | Jax Finniegan | 26.6 | 1,007 | |
SNP | Willie Sawers (incumbent) | 26.2 | 991 | |
Conservative | Lisa Franchi | 8.3 | 313 | |
Scottish Green | Stuart White | 3.3 | 126 | |
Alba | Heather McLean | 2.7 | 102 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Smith | 2.7 | 100 | |
Valid: 3,789 Spoilt: 96 Quota: 948 Turnout: 32.9% |
East End
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
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1 | 2 | ||||
SNP | Will Dawson (incumbent) | 32.8 | 1,350 | ||
Labour | Dorothy McHugh | 26.0 | 1,071 | ||
SNP | Christina Roberts (incumbent) | 20.0 | 823 | 1,088 | |
Conservative | Bill Crabb | 10.7 | 440 | 444 | |
Scottish Green | Alison McIntosh | 4.1 | 168 | 184 | |
Alba | Allan Petrie | 3.7 | 151 | 158 | |
Liberal Democrats | Outi Mȁȁttȁnen-Burke | 2.8 | 115 | 120 | |
Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,117 Quota: 1,030 |
The Ferry
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Craig Duncan (incumbent) | 34.7 | 3,112 | ||||||||
SNP | Kevin Cordell (incumbent) | 20.1 | 1,806 | ||||||||
Conservative | Derek Scott (incumbent) | 18.5 | 1,661 | 2,064 | |||||||
Labour | Pete Shears | 10.0 | 899 | 1,150 | 1,156 | 1,157 | 1,168 | 1,180 | 1,292 | 1,462 | |
SNP | Qaiser Habib | 7.5 | 674 | 819 | 820 | 829 | 832 | 867 | 1,030 | 1,043 | |
Conservative | Philip Scott (incumbent) | 4.5 | 407 | 459 | 706 | 706 | 730 | 745 | 763 | ||
Scottish Green | Mark Parsons | 3.0 | 269 | 398 | 400 | 401 | 413 | 423 | |||
Alba | Thomas Byrne | 1.0 | 92 | 109 | 109 | 109 | 113 | ||||
Scottish Family | Carole Smith | 0.7 | 59 | 87 | 88 | 88 | |||||
Valid: 8,979 Quota: 1,796 |
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Originally elected as a Scottish National Party candidate
- ^ Denotes a main invitee attending the event.
- ^ Denotes a main invitee not attending the event, sending a surrogate in their place.
- ^ Political editor of The Courier
- ^ Richard McCready, Labour
- ^ Phillip Scott, Scottish Conservative group leader at Dundee City Council, councillor in The Ferry ward
- ^ Fraser MacPherson, Scottish Liberal Democrat group leader at Dundee City Council, councillor in the West End ward
- ^ Tanya Jones, Scottish Green candidate for the Coldside ward
- ^ Alan Ross, Alba Party sole representative at Dundee City Council, councillor for Lochee ward
- ^ Lynne Short, SNP councillor for the Maryfield ward
- ^ Richard McCready, Labour
- ^ Gavin MacKenzie, Conservative
- ^ Michael Crichton, Liberal Democrats
- ^ Tanya Jones, Scottish Green candidate for the Coldside ward
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Local Elections 2022". Dundee City Council. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ Hamilton, Lindsey (20 May 2022). "Dundee's new Lord Provost and other top council posts revealed". The Courier. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Local Elections Results 2017 Dundee". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ Morkis, Stefan. "EXCLUSIVE: Dundee councillor Gregor Murray quits SNP over party's 'institutional transphobia'". The Courier. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "Former SNP city development chief unveiled as latest defector to Alba party". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "North East By Election - Election Results". Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ^ a b Healy, Derek (19 April 2022). "Here's who we have lined up for our Dundee City Council debate". Twitter.
- ^ Healey, Derek. "Courier election debate: How you can put questions to local leaders". The Courier. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ a b DESN, DESN. "We are pleased to be hosting a Council Election Hustings - come along put your questions to the parties ahead of elections on 5th May 2022".
- ^ a b c d e f g "Local Elections 2022 - Results". Dundee City Council. Retrieved 8 May 2022.