Saltcoats and Stevenston (ward)
Saltcoats and Stevenston | |
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North Ayrshire | |
Population | 21,925 (2021)[1] |
Electorate | 16,951 (2022) |
Major settlements | Saltcoats Stevenston |
Scottish Parliament constituency | Cunninghame South Cunninghame North |
Scottish Parliament region | West Scotland |
UK Parliament constituency | North Ayrshire and Arran |
Current ward | |
Created | 2022 |
Number of councillors | 5 |
Councillor | Jean McClung (SNP) |
Councillor | Jim Montgomerie (Labour) |
Councillor | Davina McTeirnan (SNP) |
Councillor | John Sweeney (Labour) |
Councillor | Cameron Inglis (Conservative) |
Created from | Saltcoats Stevenston |
2007 | –2017|
Number of councillors | 4 |
Replaced by | Saltcoats Stevenston |
Created from | Ardrossan North Kilwinning West Saltcoats East Saltcoats North South Beach Stevenston North Stevenston South |
Saltcoats and Stevenston is one of the nine wards used to elect members of North Ayrshire Council. Re-established in 2022, the ward elects five councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 21,925 people.
The ward was originally created in 2007 and elected four councillors before it was abolished in 2017. It was a Labour stronghold with the party holding half the seats. However, the re-established ward has been split between Labour and the Scottish National Party (SNP) with both parties holding two of the five seats.
Boundaries
[edit]The ward was initially created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Saltcoats and Stevenston was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Saltcoats East and Stevenston South wards, the eastern halves of the former Saltcoats North and South Beach wards, the southern half of the former Stevenston North ward and a small part of both the Ardrossan North and Kilwinning West wards. As the name suggests, Saltcoats and Stevenston covered the adjoining towns of Saltcoats and Stevenston on the Firth of Clyde coast in the west of mainland North Ayrshire.[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements prior to the 2017 local elections, the ward was abolished in favour of two three-member wards for each town – Saltcoats and Stevenston.[3] However, this was reversed after the introduction of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 which coincided with the introduction of the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 which allowed for the creation of five-member wards. The 2019 Reviews of Electoral Arrangements proposed that Saltcoats and Stevenston be re-instated covering a slightly larger area than the original and electing five members instead of four.[4][5]
Councillors
[edit]Election | Councillors | |||||||||||
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2007 | Willie Gibson (SNP) | David Munn (Labour) | Ronnie McNicol (Ind.) | Alan Munro (Labour) | ||||||||
2011 by-election | Jim Montgomerie (Labour) | |||||||||||
2012 | ||||||||||||
2017 | Abolished | |||||||||||
2022 | Jean McClung (SNP) | Jim Montgomerie (Labour) | Davina McTeirnan (SNP) | John Sweeney (Labour) | Cameron Inglis (Conservative) |
Election results
[edit]2022 election
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
SNP | Jean McClung[note 1] | 29.3 | 1,908 | ||||||||
Labour | Jim Montgomerie[note 1] | 28.0 | 1,822 | ||||||||
Labour | John Sweeney[note 2] | 12.2 | 796 | 811 | 1,350 | ||||||
Conservative | Cameron Inglis | 11.4 | 742 | 745 | 772 | 776 | 814 | 828 | 857 | 1,103 | |
SNP | Davina McTeirnan[note 2] | 10.2 | 666 | 1,402 | |||||||
Independent | Ronnie McNicol[note 1] | 5.6 | 366 | 394 | 448 | 486 | 527 | 605 | 702 | ||
ISP | David Higgins | 1.7 | 111 | 120 | 127 | 206 | 219 | 235 | |||
Independent | Jimmy Miller[note 2] | 1.4 | 95 | 97 | 119 | 140 | 182 | ||||
Electorate: 16,951 Valid: 6,506 Spoilt: 202 Quota: 1,085 Turnout: 39.6% |
2012 election
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Labour | Jim Montgomerie | 36.2 | 1,926 | ||||||||
SNP | Willie Gibson (incumbent) | 23.4 | 1,244 | ||||||||
Independent | Ronnie McNicol (incumbent) | 13.2 | 703 | 771 | 789 | 796 | 816 | 884 | 993 | 1,210 | |
Labour | Alan Munro (incumbent) | 10.1 | 540 | 1,124 | |||||||
SNP | Nan Wallace | 9.0 | 481 | 510 | 642 | 650 | 667 | 688 | 729 | ||
Conservative | David Rocks | 3.6 | 193 | 198 | 199 | 201 | 205 | ||||
Scottish Senior Citizens | Jimmy Miller | 3.1 | 163 | 210 | 216 | 225 | 239 | 282 | |||
Socialist Labour | Debbie Anderson | 1.4 | 76 | 91 | 94 | 100 | |||||
Electorate: 15,274 Valid: 5,326 Spoilt: 138 Quota: 1,066 Turnout: 34.9% |
Source: [8]
2011 by-election
[edit]A by-election arose in the Saltcoats and Stevenston ward following the resignation of the Labour Party's David Munn, and Jim Montgomorie held the seat for Labour on 25 August 2011.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Labour | Jim Montgomerie | 48.7 | 1,914 | 1,927 | 1,936 | 1,963 | 2,039 | |
SNP | Nan Wallace | 33.2 | 1,306 | 1,311 | 1,326 | 1,363 | 1,425 | |
Conservative | Chris Barr | 7.2 | 284 | 286 | 297 | 308 | 331 | |
Scottish Senior Citizens | Jimmy Miller | 5.4 | 211 | 217 | 222 | 240 | ||
Independent | Gerard Pollock | 2.9 | 114 | 117 | 123 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Bain | 1.4 | 56 | 57 | ||||
Socialist Labour | Louise McDaid | 1.1 | 43 | |||||
Electorate: 11,039 Valid: 2,764 Spoilt: 42 Quota: 1,965 Turnout: 25.4% |
Source: [9]
2007 election
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
SNP | William Gibson | 22.4 | 1,629 | |||||||
Independent | Ronnie McNicol | 18.8 | 1,362 | 1,380 | 1,577 | |||||
Labour | David Munn | 13.0 | 943 | 951 | 968 | 978 | 1,045 | 1,344 | 1,531 | |
Labour | Alan Munro | 12.4 | 902 | 907 | 953 | 961 | 1,000 | 1,254 | 1,482 | |
SNP | Nan Wallace | 9.5 | 691 | 800 | 890 | 919 | 1,051 | 1,094 | ||
Labour | Sam Taylor | 9.4 | 683 | 685 | 709 | 714 | 743 | |||
Conservative | Stewart Ferguson | 7.6 | 554 | 557 | 594 | 619 | ||||
Independent | Margaret Walsh | 6.8 | 496 | 501 | ||||||
Electorate: 15,039 Valid: 7,260 Spoilt: 189 Quota: 1,453 Turnout: 49.5% |
Source: [10]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Saltcoats and Stevenston". Scottish Government. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; North Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2006. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Fifth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements; North Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland. May 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Review of Electoral Arrangements; North Ayrshire Council Area" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. June 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Declaration of Results Report Saltcoats and Stevenston". North Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Saltcoats and Stevenston". North Ayrshire Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Declaration of Results Ward 04 - Saltcoats and Stevenston" (PDF). North Ayrshire Council. 4 May 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ^ "By-election Ward 4" (PDF). North Ayrshire Council. 26 August 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "Local Government Elections 2007: Declaration of result North Ayrshire Council: Saltcoats and Stevenston Electoral Ward" (PDF). North Ayrshire Council. 4 May 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2024.