Scottish Borders Council election, 2007

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 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 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 Party	2	N/A	N/A	+2	5.9	5.3	2,597
	Labour	0	N/A	N/A	±0	0.0	1.9	919
	Scottish 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
	Scottish 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
	Scottish 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
	Scottish Green	Lesley Wood	126	3.2

Changes after the elections

†Tom Weatherston cased to be an Independent and joined the Conservatives on 17 January 2011

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