2007 Dumfries and Galloway Council election

Elections to Dumfries and Galloway Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 13 new wards created as a results of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 47 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

Election results

The votes and percentage of vote share are based on first preference votes.

Dumfries and Galloway Local Election Result 2007

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	18	N/A	N/A	+7	38.3	32.2	20,815
	Labour	14	N/A	N/A	±0	29.8	28.1	18,169
	SNP	10	N/A	N/A	+5	21.3	19.0	12,266
	Liberal Democrats	3	N/A	N/A	–2	6.4	8.3	5,340
	Scottish Green	0	N/A	N/A	±0	0.0	1.0	619
	UKIP	0	N/A	N/A	±0	0.0	0.3	175
	Independent	2	N/A	N/A	–10	4.3	11.2	7,240

Ward results

Stranraer and North Rhins

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Willie Scobie	1,006	25.8	1	1
	Conservative	John Dougan	932	23.9	2	3
	SNP	Iain William Dick	702	18.0	3	5
	Independent	Ian McIntyre	668	17.2
	Labour	Tommy Sloan	584	15.0

Wigtown West

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Robert James Higgins	1,291	33.0	1	1
	Labour	Grahame Forster	1,230	31.4	2	1
	Conservative	Roberta Tuckfield	866	22.1	3	4
	Independent	Ted Adamson	327	8.3
	Scottish Green	Bob Bauld	203	5.2

Mid Galloway

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Alistair Geddes	1,654	38.7	1	1
	Conservative	Graham Nicol	1,387	32.5	2	1
	Liberal Democrats	Sandra McDowall	650	15.2	3	4
	Labour	Maggie Birch	581	13.6

Dee

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Patsy Gilroy	994	21.0	2	6
	Independent	Jane Maitland	989	20.9	1	3
	SNP	Thomas Jacques	924	19.5	3	6
	Conservative	Chris Walker	701	14.8
	Independent	Ian McConchie	418	8.8
	Liberal Democrats	Joan Mitchell	384	8.1
	Labour	John Syndney Burt	319	6.7

Castle Douglas and Glenkens

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Peter Duncan	1,560	32.3	1	1
	SNP	Brian Collins	1,152	23.9	2	3
	Independent	George Nicol Prentice	904	18.7	3	6
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Mary Barratt	471	9.8
	Labour	Mike McLurg	451	9.4
	Conservative	Alex Zimmerman	285	5.9

Abbey

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Ian Blake	1,081	19.7	1	3
	SNP	Rob Davidson	976	17.8	2	7
	Conservative	Bruce Hodgson	778	14.2	4	9
	Labour	Tom McAughtrie	777	14.1
	Labour	Davie Stitt	770	14.0	3	9
	Liberal Democrats	Josephine Robertson	267	4.9
	Independent	John White	239	4.3
	Independent	Stuart Martin Clement	211	3.8
	Independent	Ian Stewart McMickan	203	3.7
	Independent	Michael John Thomson	194	3.5

North West Dumfries

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Ronnie Nicholson	1,327	25.6	1	1
	Conservative	John Graham Bell	1,060	20.4	2	1
	Labour	David John McKie	996	19.2	3	2
	SNP	Doug Snell	809	15.6	4	7
	Labour	Stephen David Harman	650	12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Joe Sweeney	188	3.6
	Independent	Arthur Tremble	163	3.1

Mid and Upper Nithsdale

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Jim Dempster	1,261	22.0	1	1
	Conservative	Gill Dykes	1,102	19.2	2	5
	Labour	John Syme	876	15.3	3	8
	SNP	Andrew Stuart Wood	783	13.7	4	8
	Conservative	Neil McKay	753	13.1
	Liberal Democrats	Rog Wood	378	6.6
	Independent	Mike Steele	256	4.5
	UKIP	Douglas Watters	175	3.1
	Independent	Moses Kungu	145	2.5

Lochar

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Jeff Leaver	978	19.3	1	4
	Conservative	John Anthony Charteris	872	17.2	3	7
	SNP	Lorna Jean McGowan	836	16.5	2	5
	Conservative	Ivor Alexander Hyslop	791	15.6	4	7
	Labour	Alec Martin	597	11.8
	Independent	David Slater	550	10.9
	Liberal Democrats	John Robertson	317	6.3
	Independent	Graham William Sutherland McLeod	118	2.3

Nith

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	John Allan Martin	1,268	23.0	1	1
	SNP	Alistair Witts	1,145	20.8	2	1
	Conservative	Jack Groom	794	14.4	3	5
	Labour	Colin Smyth	714	13.0	4	7
	Conservative	Frances Hassall	623	11.3
	Liberal Democrats	Kerr Little	598	10.9
	Independent	Robin Wishart	368	6.7

Annandale South

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Sean William Marshall	1,324	23.1	1	1
	Liberal Democrats	Richard John Brodie	970	16.9	3	5
	Conservative	Ian Brian Carruthers	936	16.4	2	4
	Labour	Ronnie Ogilvie	807	14.1	4	7
	SNP	John McNaught	665	11.6
	Conservative	Sharon Jane Ledger	527	9.2
	Independent	John Ramage	494	8.6

Annandale North

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Roger Brian Grant	1,011	18.5	1	3
	Labour	Ted Brown	818	15.0	3	7
	Conservative	Gail MacGregor	751	13.7	4	7
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Dickie	749	13.7	2	7
	SNP	Johanne Lydia Wood	710	13.0
	Independent	Billy Lockhart	547	10.0
	Independent	Jean Hamilton Purves	446	8.2
	Conservative	Neil MacInnes	277	5.1
	Scottish Green	Alis Ballance	159	2.9

Annandale East

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Denis Raymond Male	992	20.6	1	1
	Conservative	Ian Lindsay	981	20.4	2	1
	Labour	Archie Dryburgh	835	17.3	3	5
	Conservative	Allan Graham	761	15.8	4	7
	SNP	Murray Collins	619	12.9
	Liberal Democrats	Peter James Burn	368	7.6
	Scottish Green	Nicholas John Jennings	257	5.3