2007_Scottish_Borders_Council_election
Elections to Scottish Borders 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 11 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 34 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.
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Main article: 2007 Scottish local elections
Quick Facts All 34 seats to Scottish Borders Council 18 seats needed for a majority, First party ...
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Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Conservative | 11 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 32.4 | 26.8 | 13,083 | 1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | 10 | N/A | N/A | +2 | 29.4 | 24.6 | 11,980 | 1.7 | |
SNP | 6 | N/A | N/A | +4 | 17.6 | 18.8 | 9,161 | 7.3 | |
Independent | 5 | N/A | N/A | -8 | 14.7 | 21.1 | 10,272 | 9.3 | |
Borders | 2 | N/A | N/A | +2 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 2,597 | New | |
Labour | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 919 | 0.5 | |
Scottish Green | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 456 | New | |
Solidarity | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 210 | New | |
Scottish Socialist | 0 | N/A | N/A | ±0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 105 | 1.7 | |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Liberal Democrats | Catriona Bhatia | 1,202 | 25.2 | 1 | 1 | |
Conservative | Neil Calvert | 1,091 | 22.9 | 2 | 4 | |
SNP | Willie Archibald | 784 | 16.4 | 3 | 5 | |
Independent | Nancy Norman | 672 | 14.1 | |||
Independent | Tom Davidson | 667 | 14.0 | |||
Labour | Eamonn O'Neil | 356 | 7.5 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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SNP | Bill Herd | 1,167 | 24.3 | 1 | 3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Graham Garvie | 1,159 | 24.1 | 2 | 3 | |
Conservative | Gavin Logan | 1,086 | 22.6 | 3 | 4 | |
Labour | Robin Tatler | 563 | 11.7 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Bran McCrow | 490 | 10.2 | |||
Borders Party | Tom Douglas | 231 | 4.8 | |||
Scottish Socialist | Norman Lockhart | 105 | 2.2 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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SNP | John Mitchell | 1,519 | 28.2 | 1 | 1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jim Hume | 1,466 | 27.2 | 2 | 1 | |
Conservative | Fiona Lackenby | 735 | 13.6 | 4 | 6 | |
Borders Party | Sandy Aitchison | 693 | 12.9 | 3 | 6 | |
Independent | Bill White | 453 | 8.4 | |||
Solidarity | Graeme McIver | 210 | 3.9 | |||
Independent | David Smail | 173 | 3.2 | |||
Independent | Alistair Lings | 136 | 2.5 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Liberal Democrats | Vicky Davidson | 1,313 | 29.5 | 1 | 1 | |
Conservative | Carolyn Riddell-Carre | 1,121 | 25.2 | 2 | 1 | |
SNP | Kenneth Gunn | 826 | 18.5 | 3 | 5 | |
Independent | Gordon Edgar | 558 | 12.5 | |||
Borders Party | Violet Baillie | 360 | 8.1 | |||
Independent | Alistair Pattullo | 279 | 6.3 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Independent | David Parker | 1,362 | 29.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Conservative | John Greenwell | 713 | 15.6 | |||
Liberal Democrats | John Paton-Day | 703 | 15.3 | 2 | 5 | |
Borders Party | Nicholas Watson | 692 | 15.1 | 3 | 5 | |
SNP | Frank McCann | 640 | 14.0 | |||
Independent | Harry Cummings | 394 | 8.6 | |||
Independent | John Rae | 78 | 1.7 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Liberal Democrats | Frances Renton | 1,186 | 27.0 | 1 | 1 | |
SNP | Donald Moffat | 1,173 | 26.7 | 2 | 1 | |
Conservative | Trevor Jones | 1,051 | 23.9 | 3 | 4 | |
Conservative | Margaret McCrave | 722 | 16.4 | |||
Borders Party | Diana Miers | 255 | 5.8 | |||
Independent | Anne Roberts | 105 | 2.4 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Independent | Michael Cook | 1,512 | 34.8 | 1 | 1 | |
Conservative | Jim Fullarton | 1,333 | 30.6 | 2 | 1 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Raw | 804 | 18.5 | 3 | 3 | |
SNP | Aileen Orr | 701 | 16.1 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Liberal Democrats | Alec Nicol | 1,116 | 25.7 | 1 | 1 | |
Conservative | Alasdair Hutton | 982 | 22.7 | 2 | 5 | |
Independent | Tom Weatherston† | 814 | 18.8 | 3 | 5 | |
Independent | Trevor Black | 431 | 9.9 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Thomson | 427 | 9.9 | |||
SNP | Paul Cartledge | 346 | 8.0 | |||
Scottish Green | Michael Scott | 218 | 5.0 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Conservative | Sandy Scott | 1,011 | 26.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Conservative | Len Wyse | 878 | 22.6 | 2 | 4 | |
SNP | Jim Brown | 877 | 22.6 | 3 | 4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alistair O'Neil | 716 | 18.4 | |||
Borders Party | Jim Smith | 316 | 8.1 | |||
Independent | Jim Millhouse | 87 | 2.2 |
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Conservative | Zandra Elliott | 980 | 26.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Independent | Stewart Marshall | 904 | 24.0 | 2 | 5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jock Houston | 738 | 19.6 | 3 | 5 | |
SNP | Derek Philips | 454 | 12.0 | |||
Independent | Andrew Farquhar | 301 | 8.0 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Alex Martin | 232 | 6.2 | |||
Scottish Green | Kevin Ferguson | 112 | 3.0 | |||
Borders Party | Charles Humphries | 50 | 1.3 | |||
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Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
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Independent | David Paterson | 1,022 | 25.8 | 1 | 1 | |
Conservative | George Turnbull | 953 | 24.1 | 2 | 4 | |
SNP | Jim Rowan | 674 | 17.0 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Ron Smith | 475 | 12.0 | 3 | 6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Etta McKean | 380 | 9.6 | |||
Independent | Jake Irvine | 324 | 8.2 | |||
Scottish Green | Lesley Wood | 126 | 3.2 |
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- †Tom Weatherston ceased to be an Independent and joined the Conservatives on 17 January 2011
- "Scottish Council Elections 2007 Results and Statistics" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
- "Local Election Results 2007 - Scottish Borders". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 15 February 2024.