Fraserburgh and District (ward)

Fraserburgh and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.

Location of the ward [1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Brian Topping (SNP)		Ian Tait (SNP /Ind.)		Andy Ritchie (SNP)		Michael Watt (Ind.)
2012			Charles Cummin Buchan (SNP)
2017	Doreen Mair (Ind.)				Andy Kille (Conservative)

Election Results

2017 Election

2017 Aberdeenshire Council election [2]

Fraserburgh and District - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Conservative	Andy Kille	24.10%	1,229
	Independent	Doreen Mair	14.57%	743	781	790	873	950	1,061
	SNP	Charles Cummin Buchan (incumbent)	12.04%	614	617	758	783	811	855	859	910	999
	SNP	Brian Topping (incumbent)	12.78%	652	653	709	731	763	776	780	827	968
	Independent	Ian Tait (incumbent)	9.73%	496	529	532	564	590	637	644	743
	Independent	Michael Watt (incumbent)	6.45%	329	352	359	397	429	470	478
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Bell	5.14%	262	292	299	313	362
	Labour	Kenneth Watt	5.23%	267	282	287	311
	Independent	Charlie Reid	4.94%	252	258	267
	SNP	David Donn	5.02%	256	257
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 5,100   Spoilt: 93   Quota: 1,021   Turnout: 42.9%

2012 Election

2012 Aberdeenshire Council election [3]

Fraserburgh and District - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	SNP	Brian Topping (incumbent)	25.1	1,056
	SNP	Charles Cummin Buchan	16.72	704	787.7	792.9	802.1	817.7	1,040.6
	Independent	Ian Tait (incumbent)	14.65	617	637.2	644.6	666.9	723.6	733.9	759.3	836.1	993.3
	Independent	Michael Watt (incumbent)	9.90	417	432.3	446.3	466.5	515.5	528.9	547.7	627.9	783.6
	Independent	Doreen Mair	8.81	371	379.5	410.5	436.7	470.9	483.3	498.3	625.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Bell	7.65	322	326.8	334.0	361.4	420.1	427.3	446.3
	Conservative	Bob Sim	6.15	259	261.6	266.6	275.6
	SNP	Ricky Sheaffe-Greene	4.89	206	270.3	273.5	280.7	282.7
	Labour	Ashara Taylor	4.08	172	173.6	176.8
	Independent	George Esslemont	2.07	87	88.2
Electorate: 11,117   Valid: 4,211   Spoilt: 65   Quota: 843   Turnout: 4,276 (37.88%)

2007 Election

2007 Aberdeenshire Council election

Fraserburgh and District
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	SNP	Brian Topping	27.1	1,487
	SNP	Ian Tait†	20.6	1,131
	Independent	Michael Watt	15.1	831	865	869	890	918	1,041	1,370
	SNP	Andy Ritchie††††††	14.5	795	1,022	1,037	1,046	1,060	1,090	1,165
	Independent	Dennis Duthie	9.3	509	520	522	554	587	728
	Conservative	Bob Sim	8.5	466	482	484	490	522
	Liberal Democrats	Dominique-Paul Lonchay	3.0	164	167	168	171
	Independent	James Milne	2.0	109	116	116
Electorate: -   Valid: 5,492   Spoilt: 168   Quota: 1,099   Turnout: 51.83%

References

1. http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/5th-reviews-ward-maps
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20170702212518/https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/elections/local-government-elections-2017/#list
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20070512233641/http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/elections/local/index.asp