Galashiels_and_District_(ward)

Galashiels and District (ward)

Ward of the Scottish Borders

Galashiels and District is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Scottish Borders Council. It elects four Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Election Results

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Election
2007	Sandy Aitchison (Borders Party /Ind.)		John Mitchell (SNP)		Fiona Lackenby (Conservative)	Jim Hume (Liberal Democrats)
2012		Bill Herd (SNP)	John Mitchell (SNP)		Bill White (Ind.)
2017		Andy Anderson (SNP)		Euan Jardine (Conservative)	Harry Scott (Ind.)
2022	Neil MacKinnon (Green)	Fay Sinclair (SNP)		Euan Jardine (Conservative)	Hannah Steel (Liberal Democrats)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Fay Sinclair	35.9%	1,637
	Conservative	Euan Jardine (incumbent)	26.4%	1,205
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Steel	10.6%	483	581.8	658.6	662.8	667.1	697.1	777.4	995.6
	Scottish Green	Neil MacKinnon	9.0%	412	786.2	796.7	809.9	814.8	855.9	889.8	984.4
	Independent	Bill White	6.9%	315	364.6	415.9	416.2	426.6	509	706.3
	Independent	Harry Redpath Scott (incumbent)	5.4%	246	272.6	314.6	318.8	321.3	398.6
	Independent	Duck Frater	4.4%	199	230	252.6	257.5	272.5
	Vanguard Party championing Galashiels	Michael Banks	0.8%	36	43.5	47.9	49.8
	Scottish Eco-Federalist Party (SEFP)	James D W Clark	0.5%	24	30.2	32.9
Electorate: 11,639 Valid: 4,557 Spoilt: 43 Quota: 912 Turnout: 4,600 (39.5%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Euan Jardine	28.5%	1,292
	SNP	Andy Anderson	20%	907
	Independent	Sandy Aitchison (incumbent)	11.9%	539	612.9	640.3	732.4	916.2
	Independent	Harry Scott	10.1%	460	517.8	532.4	592.4	753.1	757	988.3
	SNP	John Mitchell (incumbent)	11.5%	523	530.4	558.9	597.7	647.3
	Independent	Bill White (incumbent)	8.7%	396	441.3	462.1	522
	Liberal Democrats	Caledonia Bhatia	5.5%	249	316	369.2
	Labour	David Sharp	3.7%	167	188.5
Electorate: 10,980 (Est.) Valid: 4,533 Spoilt: 66 Quota: 907 Turnout: 4,599 (41.9%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Borders	Sandy Aitchison (incumbent)	22.45	822
	SNP	Bill Herd *	20.95	766
	Independent	Bill White	13.69	501	522.9	524.6	590.6	701	894.8
	SNP	John Mitchell (incumbent)	13.45	492	506	532.5	593.5	639.9	762
	Liberal Democrats	Rick Kenney	11.40	417	432.9	434.8	490.3	609.4
	Conservative	Fiona Lackenby (incumbent)	10.56	386	402.5	403.2	409.6
	Labour	Robbie Tatler	7.47	273	280.8	281.7
Electorate: 10,813 Valid: 3,657 Spoilt: 69 Quota: 732 Turnout: 3,726 (33.82%)

	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
SNP	John Mitchell	1,519	28.2	1	1
Liberal Democrats	Jim Hume	1,466	27.2	2	1
Conservative	Fiona Lackenby	735	13.6	4	6
Borders Party	Sandy Aitchison	693	12.9	3	6
Independent	Bill White	453	8.4
Solidarity	Graeme McIver	210	3.9
Independent	David Smail	173	3.2
Independent	Alistair Lings	136	2.5