This article does not cite any sources. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: – ···scholar·JSTOR(June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Main article: 2007 Scottish local elections
2007 Scottish Borders Council election
← 2003
3 May 2007 (2007-05-03)
2012 →
All 34 seats to Scottish Borders Council 18 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Party
Conservative
SNP
Independent
Last election
10 seats, 30.4%
1 seat, 11.5%
14 seats, 30.4%
Seats before
10
1
14
Seats won
11
6
5
Seat change
1
5
8
Fourth party
Fifth party
Party
Liberal Democrats
Borders
Last election
9 seats, 26.3%
New Party
Seats before
9
N/A
Seats won
10
2
Seat change
1
2
Council Leader before election
Independent
Council Leader after election
David Parker Independent
Elections to Scottish Borders Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local governmentelections and the Scottish Parliamentgeneral 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.
Election results[]
Scottish Borders Local Election Result 2007
Party
Seats
Gains
Losses
Net gain/loss
Seats %
Votes %
Votes
+/−
Conservative
11
N/A
N/A
±0
32.4
26.8
13,083
Liberal Democrats
10
N/A
N/A
+2
29.4
24.6
11,980
Independent
5
N/A
N/A
-8
14.7
21.1
10,272
SNP
6
N/A
N/A
+4
17.6
18.8
9,161
Borders
2
N/A
N/A
+2
5.9
5.3
2,597
Labour
0
N/A
N/A
±0
0.0
1.9
919
Green
0
N/A
N/A
±0
0.0
0.9
456
Solidarity
0
N/A
N/A
±0
0.0
0.4
210
Scottish Socialist
0
N/A
N/A
±0
0.0
0.2
105
Ward results[]
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Tweeddale West
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Tweeddale East
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Galashiels and District
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Selkirkshire
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Leaderdale and Melrose
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Mid Berwickshire
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: East Berwickshire
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Kelso and District
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Green
Michael Scott
218
5.0
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Jedburgh and District
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Hawick and Denholm
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Green
Kevin Ferguson
112
3.0
Borders Party
Charles Humphries
50
1.3
Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Hawick and Hermitage
Party
Candidate
1st Pref
%
Seat
Count
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
Green
Lesley Wood
126
3.2
Changes after the elections[]
†Tom Weatherston ceased to be an Independent and joined the Conservatives on 17 January 2011