Denis Mollison   (Heriot-Watt University)                   email: denismollison (at) gmail.com

Scottish Council election May 2012

These web pages give the full results of the election held on 3 May 2012, under the Single Transferable Vote proportional representation system, for all 353 wards in Scotland's 32 councils.
The page for each ward includes details of each stage of the count, both in numbers and pictures: the latter make it easy to follow the transfers of surplus votes from elected and excluded candidates. There is also a link to the full vote preference file for each ward.
Further details of data format and sources

Elected - party totals:      SNP 425,  Lab 394,  Con 115,  SLD 71,  Grn 14,  Ind 196,  Others 8

Council (click on name for details) SNP Lab Con SLD Grn Ind Bdrs EDIA CICA GF PICP SSP
Aberdeen 15 17 3 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aberdeenshire 28 2 14 12 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 0
Angus 15 1 4 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
Argyll and Bute 13 0 4 4 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
Clackmannanshire 8 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dumfries and Galloway 10 15 14 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dundee 16 10 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
East Ayrshire 15 14 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
East Dunbartonshire 8 8 2 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
East Lothian 9 10 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
East Renfrewshire 4 8 6 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Edinburgh 18 20 11 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eilean Siar 7 3 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0
Falkirk 13 14 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fife 26 35 3 10 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Glasgow 27 44 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Highland 22 8 0 15 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0
Inverclyde 6 10 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Midlothian 8 8 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moray 10 3 3 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Ayrshire 12 11 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0
North Lanarkshire 26 41 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0
Orkney 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0
Perth and Kinross 18 4 10 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
Renfrewshire 15 22 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scottish Borders 9 0 10 6 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 0
Shetland 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Ayrshire 9 9 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Lanarkshire 28 33 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stirling 9 8 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
West Dunbartonshire 6 12 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
West Lothian 15 16 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

Key to party acronyms:

Parties winning seats

SNP       Scottish National Party
Lab       Labour
Con       Conservative
SLD       Scottish Liberal Democrats
Grn       Scottish Green
Ind       Independent
Bdrs       Borders Party
EDIA       East Dunbartonshire Independent Alliance
CICA       Cumbernauld Independent Councillors Alliance
GF       Glasgow First
PICP       Perth Independent Candidates Party
SSP       Scottish Socialist


Other parties contesting election

ASJH       Action to Save St John's Hospital
Bri       Britannica
ChrP       Christian Peoples
Com       Communist
EKA       East Kilbride Alliance
Lib       Liberal
MRL       Monster Raving Loony
NF       National Front
Anon       No label
Pir       Pirate
SC       Scottish Christian
SSC       Scottish Senior Citizens
SU       Scottish Unionist
SL       Socialist Labour
Sol       Solidarity
TUSC       Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
UKIP       United Kingdom Independence Party