Pentland Hills (Edinburgh ward)

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Pentland Hills ward
Location of the ward within Edinburgh (pre-2017 boundaries)[1]

Pentland Hills 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 mainly covers the villages and suburban developments in the south-west hinterland beyond the A720 Edinburgh city bypass road (Baberton, Balerno, Currie, Juniper Green and Ratho, plus the campus of Heriot-Watt University), up to the boundaries with West Lothian, Midlothian and a small border with the Scottish Borders at the edge of the Pentland Hills.

Initially electing three councillors, within the bypass it covered the Kingsknowe neighbourhood and the southern part of the Wester Hailes housing scheme plus its smaller neighbour Clovenstone; the boundaries were redrawn for the 2017 election, losing Kingsknowe but gaining the northern part of Wester Hailes plus the Calders area, with the population increasing and four councillors being returned. In 2019, the ward had a population of 32,703.[3]

Councillors[]

Election Councillors
2007 Ronald Cairns
(SNP) 		Alastair S Paisley
(Conservative) 		Ricky Henderson
(Labour) 		3 seats
2012 Bill Henderson
(SNP) 		Dominic Heslop
(Conservative)
2017 Neil Gardiner
(SNP) 		Graeme Bruce
(Conservative) 		Sue Webber
(Conservative)

Election results[]

2017 Election[]

2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[4]

Pentland Hills - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2
Conservative Graeme Bruce 27.2% 3,083  
SNP Neil Gardiner 21.1% 2,382  
Labour Ricky Henderson (incumbent) 20.6% 2,334  
Conservative Susan Webber 14.0% 1,587 2,293
SNP Ernesta Noreikiene 7.8% 880 888
Liberal Democrats Emma Farthing 4.9% 560 608
Green Evelyn Weston 4.3% 489 499
Electorate: 22,920   Valid: 11,315   Spoilt: 262   Quota: 2,264   Turnout: 50.5%

2012 Election[]

2012 City of Edinburgh Council election

Pentland Hills - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
SNP Bill Henderson 29.16% 2,317            
Labour Ricky Henderson (incumbent) 28.85% 2,293            
Conservative Dominic Heslop 15.09% 1,199 1,224 1,249 1,335 1,397 1,502 2,446
Conservative Shelia Low 12.61% 1,002 1,017 1,040 1,099 1,154 1,240  
Green Phyl Meyer 4.05% 322 400 468 607 840    
Independent Mike 'Professor Pongoo' Ferrigan 5.59% 444 491 531 590      
Liberal Democrats Stuart Bridges 4.66% 370 414 462        
Electorate: 18,002   Valid: 7,947   Spoilt: 51   Quota: 1,987   Turnout: 7,998 (44.4%)

2007 Election[]

2007 City of Edinburgh Council election

2007 Council election: Pentland Hills
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Conservative Alastair S Paisley 22.9 2,523 2,532 2,536 2,565 2,718 4,401
SNP Ronald Cairns 20.3 2,238 2,247 2,274 2,374 2,661 2,789
Labour Ricky Henderson 19.5 2,148 2,161 2,181 2,263 2,663 2,798
Conservative Andy MacIver 18.8 2,074 2,081 2,084 2,113 2,285  
Liberal Democrats Iain J Coleman 11.4 1,255 1,281 1,299 1,471    
Green Shonagh McEwan 4.3 479 488 518      
Scottish Socialist Alister H Black 1.1 116 117        
Liberal Irvine McMinn 0.9 94          
Electorate: 17,390   Valid: 10,927   Spoilt: 104   Quota: 2,732   Turnout: 62.83%

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13922/map-of-city-of-edinburgh-wards-councillors-and-msps
  2. ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. ^ Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills, Scottish Government Statistics
  4. ^ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/download/13907/local-government-election-results-2017

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