Wick and East Caithness (ward)
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Wick and East Caithness is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. This was a new ward in the 2017 election following boundary changes. It elects four Councillors.
Councillors
[edit]| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | A.I. Willie MacKay (Independent) |
Nicola Sinclair (Independent) |
Andrew Sinclair (Conservative) |
Raymond Bremner (SNP) | ||||
| Aug 2021 | Jill Tilt (Liberal Democrat) | |||||||
| 2022 | Jan McEwan (Liberal Democrat) |
Andrew Jarvie (Conservative) | ||||||
Election results
[edit]2022 election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jan McEwan | 29.8 | 1,245 | |||||
| SNP | Raymond Bremner (incumbent) | 25.3 | 1,059 | |||||
| Conservative | Andrew Jarvie[note 1] | 15.1 | 632 | 700 | 705 | 755 | 873 | |
| Independent | A. I. Willie MacKay (incumbent) | 12.8 | 534 | 635 | 699 | 801 | 1,125 | |
| Independent | Bill Fernie | 10.5 | 438 | 518 | 571 | 669 | ||
| Labour | Neil MacDonald | 6.5 | 272 | 347 | 385 | |||
| Electorate: 10,103 Valid: 4,180 Spoilt: 45 Quota: 837 Turnout: 41.8% | ||||||||
2021 by-election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jill Tilt | 27.25% | 657 | 660 | 848 | 986 | 1,501 | |
| Independent | Bill Fernie | 25.79% | 622 | 627 | 780 | 963 | ||
| SNP | Michael Cameron | 24.59% | 593 | 593 | 606 | |||
| Conservative | Daniel Ross | 21.69% | 523 | 525 | ||||
| Scottish Libertarian | Harry Christian | 0.66% | 16 | |||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 2,411 Spoilt: 28 Quota: 1,206 Turnout: 24.3% | ||||||||
2017 election
[edit]2017 Highland Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Independent | A.I. Willie MacKay + | 22.37% | 1,046 | ||||||||
| Independent | Nicola Sinclair | 20.68% | 967 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Andrew Sinclair | 13.88% | 649 | 666 | 669 | 708 | 735 | 822 | 919 | 1,047 | |
| SNP | Raymond Bremner | 11.74% | 549 | 557 | 559 | 577 | 600 | 655 | 723 | 831 | |
| Labour | Neil MacDonald * | 8.64% | 404 | 417 | 420 | 455 | 495 | 556 | 671 | ||
| Independent | Linda Malik | 7.23% | 338 | 351 | 357 | 369 | 424 | ||||
| Independent | Bill Fernie * | 6.99% | 327 | 353 | 361 | 396 | 436 | 518 | |||
| Independent | Catherine Patterson | 4.79% | 224 | 233 | 238 | 247 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Luke Graham | 3.68% | 172 | 177 | 178 | ||||||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,676 Spoilt: 59 Quota: 936 Turnout: 47.6% | |||||||||||
*=Sitting Councillors for Wick Ward.
+=Sitting Councillor for Landward Caithness Ward.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Sitting councillor for Inverness South.
References
[edit]- ^ "2022 local government election results Ward 3 Wick and East Caithness Report - declaration of results". Highland Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "2022 local government election results Ward 3 Wick and East Caithness Report - candidates votes per stage". Highland Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "The Highland Council download - Ward 3 (Wick and East Caithness) By-Election Results 2021 | Council and government | Politicians, elections and democracy | Elections and voting | Election results".
- ^ Council, The Highland. "The Highland Council download - 2017 Council elections Ward 3 Wick and East Caithness - Council and government". www.highland.gov.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
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