Inverleith (Edinburgh ward)
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Inverleith is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council.[2] Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it currently elects four Councillors.
It covers an area to the north-west of the city centre, with the northern boundary mostly on Ferry Road and much of the southern boundary formed by the Water of Leith (the main exception being the Stockbridge neighbourhood on its right bank), including Blackhall, Comely Bank, Craigleith, Dean Village, Drylaw, Inverleith, and Warriston,[3] as well as part of Canonmills which is split with the Leith Walk ward. Although its residential parts are mostly fairly compact and densely populated, the ward also includes several open areas, including the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, three cemeteries, a golf course and playing fields for numerous schools. A minor 2017 boundary change saw the loss of a residential area (between Roseburn Footpath and Stewart's Melville College) with a neglible effect on the population, which in 2019 was recorded at 34,236.[4]
Councillors[]
Election | Councillors | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2007 | Stuart McIvor (SNP) |
Tim McKay (Liberal Democrats) |
Lesley Hinds (Labour) |
Ian Whyte (Conservative) | ||||
2012 | Gavin Barrie (SNP) |
Nigel Bagshaw (Greens) | ||||||
2017 | Hal Osler (Liberal Democrats) |
Max Mitchell (Conservative) |
Election Results[]
2017 Election[]
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[5]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Hal Osler | 16.59% | 2,251 | 2,253 | 2,388 | 2,870 | |||||
Conservative | Max Mitchell | 19.79% | 2,685 | 2,691 | 2,707 | 2,840 | |||||
SNP | Gavin Barrie (incumbent) | 18.96% | 2,572 | 2,576 | 2,611 | 2,811 | |||||
Conservative | Iain Whyte (incumbent) | 17.12% | 2,323 | 2,325 | 2,371 | 2,411 | 2,459 | 2,571 | 2,573 | 3,103 | |
Green | Nigel Bagshaw (incumbent) | 12.30% | 1,669 | 1,674 | 1,748 | 2,182 | 2,244 | 2,248 | 2,316 | ||
Labour | James Dalgleish | 12.39% | 1,678 | 1,681 | 1,704 | ||||||
Independent | Tina Woolnough | 2.63% | 357 | 362 | |||||||
Libertarian | Tom Laird | 0.24% | 32 | ||||||||
Electorate: 24,275 Valid: 13,567 Spoilt: 147 Quota: 2,714 Turnout: 56.5% |
On 23 April 2018, SNP Cllr. Gavin Barrie resigned from the party and became an Independent, after losing his position in the ruling administration as Economy Convener, following a vote at the SNP group AGM.[7]
2012 Election[]
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Labour | Lesley Hinds (incumbent) | 24.99% | 2,751 | ||||
Conservative | Iain Whyte (incumbent) | 17.77% | 1,956 | 1,989 | 2,019 | 2,279 | |
Green | Nigel Bagshaw | 14.92% | 1,642 | 1,815 | 1,865 | 2,325 | |
SNP | Gavin Barrie | 13.03% | 1,434 | 1,489 | 2,148 | 2,264 | |
Conservative | Scott Douglas | 11.73% | 1,291 | 1,312 | 1,326 | 1,487 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim McKay (incumbent) | 10.38% | 1,143 | 1,226 | 1,252 | ||
SNP | John Young | 7.19% | 792 | 820 | |||
Electorate: 23,235 Valid: 11,009 Spoilt: 118 (1.06%) Quota: 2,202 Turnout: 11,127 (47.9%) |
2007 Election[]
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
Labour | Lesley A Hinds | 18.2 | 2,689 | 2,706 | 2,714 | 2,724 | 2,743 | 2,904 | 3,025 | |||||
Conservative | Lindsay Paterson | 14.1 | 2,085 | 2,087 | 2,089 | 2,102 | 2,114 | 2,166 | 2,284 | 2,288.52 | 2,411.12 | 2,449.96 | ||
Conservative | Iain Whyte | 13.5 | 1,986 | 1,986 | 1,988 | 1,999 | 1,999 | 2,022 | 2,346 | 2,349.91 | 2,465.52 | 2,498.29 | 4,277.64 | |
SNP | Stuart McIvor | 13.3 | 1,961 | 1,970 | 1,990 | 2,010 | 2,036 | 2,239 | 2,406 | 2,418.74 | 2,563.85 | 2,614.11 | 2,729.02 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim McKay | 11.1 | 1,644 | 1,648 | 1,656 | 1,666 | 1,710 | 2,020 | 2,223 | 2,246.26 | 3,269.54 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Tom Ponton | 9.1 | 1,339 | 1,340 | 1,347 | 1,355 | 1,376 | 1,529 | 1,744 | 1,755.80 | ||||
Independent | Kristina Woolnough | 9.0 | 1,323 | 1,324 | 1,329 | 1,364 | 1,367 | 1,449 | ||||||
Green | Melanie A M Main | 7.5 | 1,113 | 1,135 | 1,165 | 1,177 | 1,192 | |||||||
Liberal | Seumas MacMhicean | 1.0 | 148 | 151 | 151 | 162 | ||||||||
Independent | John Y Anderson | 0.9 | 129 | 131 | 134 | |||||||||
Solidarity | Raymond Watt | 0.7 | 103 | 117 | ||||||||||
Scottish Socialist | Sean H Donnelly | 0.6 | 92 | |||||||||||
Electorate: 22,903 Valid: 14,612 Spoilt: 138 Quota: 2,923 Turnout: 64.4% |
References[]
- ^ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13922/map-of-city-of-edinburgh-wards-councillors-and-msps
- ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ News Index, Edinburgh Liberal Democrats
- ^ Electoral Ward: Inverleith, Scottish Government Statistics
- ^ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13907/local-government-election-results-2017
- ^ Council, The City of Edinburgh. "Local Government Election results 2017". www.edinburgh.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "Senior councillor Gavin Barrie quits SNP". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
External links[]
- Listed Buildings in Inverleith Ward, City of Edinburgh at British Listed Buildings
- Wards of Edinburgh