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

Scottish Council election May 2017

These web pages give the full results of the election held on 4 May 2017, under the Single Transferable Vote proportional representation system, for all 354 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 (*): 1227 councillors :    SNP 431,  Con 276,  Lab 262,  SLD 67,  Grn 19,  Ind 168,   Others 4

Council (click on name for details) SNP Con Lab SLD Grn Ind OMG Rub WDCP
Aberdeen 19 11 9 4 0 2 0 0 0
Aberdeenshire 21 23 1 14 1 10 0 0 0
Angus 9 8 0 2 0 9 0 0 0
Argyll_and_Bute 11 9 0 6 0 10 0 0 0
Clackmannanshire 8 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dumfries_and_Galloway 11 16 11 1 0 4 0 0 0
Dundee 14 3 9 2 0 1 0 0 0
East_Ayrshire 14 6 9 0 0 2 0 1 0
East_Dunbartonshire 7 6 2 6 0 1 0 0 0
East_Lothian 6 7 9 0 0 0 0 0 0
East_Renfrewshire 5 7 4 0 0 2 0 0 0
Edinburgh 19 18 12 6 8 0 0 0 0
Eilean_Siar 7 1 0 0 0 23 0 0 0
Falkirk 12 7 9 0 0 2 0 0 0
Fife 29 15 24 7 0 0 0 0 0
Glasgow 39 8 31 0 7 0 0 0 0
Highland 22 10 3 10 1 28 0 0 0
Inverclyde 7 2 8 1 0 4 0 0 0
Midlothian 6 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 0
Moray 9 8 1 0 0 8 0 0 0
North_Ayrshire 11 7 11 0 0 4 0 0 0
North_Lanarkshire 33 10 32 0 0 2 0 0 0
Orkney 0 0 0 0 1 18 2 0 0
Perth_and_Kinross 15 17 1 4 0 3 0 0 0
Renfrewshire 19 8 13 1 0 2 0 0 0
Scottish_Borders 9 15 0 2 0 8 0 0 0
Shetland 1 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0
South_Ayrshire 9 12 5 0 0 2 0 0 0
South_Lanarkshire 27 14 22 1 0 0 0 0 0
Stirling 9 9 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
West_Dunbartonshire 10 2 8 0 0 1 0 0 1
West_Lothian 13 7 12 0 0 1 0 0 0

Key to party acronyms:

Parties winning seats

SNP       Scottish National Party
Con       Scottish Conservative and Unionist
Lab       Scottish Labour Party
SLD       Scottish Liberal Democrats
Grn       Scottish Green Party
Ind       Independent
OMG       Orkney Manifesto Group
Rub       The Rubbish Party
WDCP       West Dunbartonshire Community Party


Other parties contesting election

Anon       .
IANL       Independent Alliance North Lanarkshire
IndN       Scotland Independent Network
NF       National Front
NFMU       No Referendum Maintain Union Pro-Brexit
RISE       Respect Independence Socialism and Environmentalism
SC       Scottish Christian Party Proclaiming Christ's Lordship
SDPS       Social Democratic Party Scotland
SL       Socialist Labour Party
SLP       Scottish Libertarian Party
Sol       Solidarity - Hope not Fear
SSP       Scottish Socialist Party
SUPS       Scottish Unionists Proudly Scottish Proudly British
TUSC       Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist
UKIP       United Kingdom Independence Party


(*) Note: these totals all include councillors from uncontested wards, of which there were three: South Kintyre in Argyll and Bute, Stromness and South Isles in Orkney, and Shetland South in Shetland, each electing a full complement of 3 councillors.