Elgin City North (ward)

Elgin City North is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the Moray Council. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward[1]

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)

Election Results

2019 by

Elgin City North By-election (13 July 2017)
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 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 Election

2017 Moray Council election[2]

Elgin City North - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 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%)

2014 by-election

Elgin City North By-election (11 December 2014) - 1 Seat[3]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	SNP	Kirsty Ella Reid	37.96	728	748	764	773	850
	Independent	Sandy Cooper	24.61	472	483	499	595	693
	UKIP	Captain Craig Ahab Graham	14.96	287	305	316	368
	Conservative	Alex Griffiths	14.23	273	280	299
	Labour	Ramsay Urquhart	4.22	81	84
	Scottish Green	Morvern Forrest	4.01	77
Electorate: 9,263   Valid: 1,918   Spoilt: 20   Quota: 960   Turnout: (20.9%) 1,938

2012 Election

2012 Moray Council election

Elgin City North - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 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%)

2007 Election

2007 Moray Council election

Elgin City North
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

References

1. http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/5th-reviews-ward-maps
2. "Moray Council Election Results 2017". Moray.gov. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)