Tain and Easter Ross (ward)
Tain and Easter Ross is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. Between the Cromarty Firth and the Dornoch Firth and east of the Cromarty Firth ward, it includes the town of Tain and the Seaboard Villages. It elects three Councillors.
Location of the ward [1]
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Alasdair Rhind (Ind.) |
Alan Torrance (Ind.) |
Richard Durham (Liberal Democrats) | |||||
| 2011 by- | Fiona Robertson (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2012 | Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
| 2017 | Derek Louden (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 by | Alasdair Rhind (Ind.) | |||||||
Election Results
2017 By-election
| Tain and Easter Ross By-election (28 September 2017)[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | ||
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind | 48.8% | 1,266 | 1,267 | 1,290 | ||
| SNP | Stan Peace | 23.6% | 612 | 616 | 634 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | William Sinclair | 14.3% | 372 | 376 | 387 | ||
| Conservative | Eva Short | 9.0% | 233 | 236 | 243 | ||
| Independent | Gerald Holdsworth | 2.6% | 68 | 69 | |||
| Libertarian | Harry Christian | 0.5% | 13 | ||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 2,564 Spoilt: 29 Quota: 1,283 Turnout: 2,593 (36.1%) | |||||||
2017 Election
2017 Highland Council election [3]
| Tain and Easter Ross - 3 seats[4][5] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | ||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 20.32% | 708 | 751 | 903 | |||||
| SNP | Derek Louden | 23.85% | 831 | 847 | 870 | 874 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jamie Stone (incumbent) † | 19.49% | 679 | 696 | 851 | 860 | 861 | 1,342 | ||
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 16.33% | 569 | 587 | 722 | 736 | 736 | |||
| Conservative | Ron Ferguson | 16.02% | 558 | 583 | ||||||
| Independent | Sandra Skinner | 3.99% | 139 | |||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 3,484 Spoilt: 64 Quota: 872 Turnout: 49.9% | ||||||||||
2012 Election
2012 Highland Council election
| Tain and Easter Ross - 3 seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | ||
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind (incumbent) | 32.67% | 1,008 | ||||||||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson (incumbent) | 24.44% | 754 | 861.9 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jamie Stone | 16.47% | 508 | 560.7 | 591.2 | 598.9 | 611.6 | 639.2 | 774.9 | ||
| SNP | Charlie Falconer | 13.61% | 420 | 432.2 | 441.8 | 446.8 | 450.9 | 468.8 | 514.8 | ||
| Independent | Richard Durham (incumbent) | 8.14% | 250 | 284.9 | 312.6 | 315.9 | 333.2 | 347.2 | |||
| Labour | Ron Stevenson | 2.53% | 78 | 81 | 82.8 | 86.2 | 89.6 | ||||
| Conservative | David Rutherford | 1.43% | 44 | 48.7 | 52.3 | 54.1 | |||||
| TUSC | Sean Robertson | 0.74% | 23 | 24.9 | 27.2 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,051 Valid: 3,085 Spoilt: 21 Quota: 772 Turnout: 3,106 (44.05%) | |||||||||||
2011 By-election
| Tain and Easter Ross By-Election (9 June 2011)- 1 seat[6] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | ||
| SNP | Derek William Louden | 33.2 | 837 | 860 | 928 | 1,037 | 1,037 | ||
| Independent | Fiona Robertson | 32.2 | 811 | 840 | 933 | 1,204 | 1,204 | ||
| Independent | Ruairidh MacKenzie | 18.54 | 467 | 481 | 547 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Antony Gardner | 12.19 | 307 | 318 | |||||
| Independent | Michael Herd | 3.9 | 97 | ||||||
| Independent gain from SNP | Swing | ||||||||
| Electorate: 6,962 Valid: 2,519 Spoilt: 17 Quota: 1,260 Turnout: 2,536 | |||||||||
2007 Election
2007 Highland Council election
| The Highland Council election, 2007: Tain and Easter Ross | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Independent | Alasdair Rhind | 1,406 | 36.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Durham | 627 | 16.2 | 2 | 8 | |
| SNP | Jim McCreath | 465 | 12.0 | |||
| Independent | Alan Torrance | 436 | 11.2 | 3 | 10 | |
| Independent | Murray MacLeod | 294 | 7.6 | |||
| Independent | Michael Herd | 204 | 5.3 | |||
| Labour | Sunny Moodie | 148 | 3.8 | |||
| Conservative | David Rutherford | 124 | 3.2 | |||
| Independent | John Boocock | 116 | 3.0 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Donnie Fraser | 59 | 1.5 | |||
References
- http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/5th-reviews-ward-maps
- Smart, Joanna. "Local Government by-elections". www.highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- https://www.highland.gov.uk/info/799/elections_and_voting/643/community_councils
- Council, The Highland. "The Highland Council download - 2017 Council elections Ward 7 Tain and Easter Ross - Council and government". www.highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- Council, The Highland. "The Highland Council download - 2017 Council elections Ward 7 Tain and Easter Ross - Council and government". www.highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/48FAF232-4472-4A27-BC8F-3075807E303F/0/Ward8byelectionfullanalysis.pdf
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