Election Name: | 2007 City of Edinburgh Council election |
Country: | Scotland |
Flag Image: | Flag of Edinburgh.svg |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2003 City of Edinburgh Council election |
Previous Year: | 2003 |
Next Election: | 2012 City of Edinburgh Council election |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Seats For Election: | All 58 seats to Edinburgh City Council |
Majority Seats: | 30 |
Party1: | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
Last Election1: | 15 seats, 26.9% |
Seats1: | 17 |
Seat Change1: | 2 |
Popular Vote1: | 42,657 |
Percentage1: | 22.0% |
Swing1: | 5.00% |
Party2: | Scottish Labour |
Seats2: | 15 |
Seat Change2: | 15 |
Popular Vote2: | 44,489 |
Percentage2: | 22.9% |
Swing2: | 4.5% |
Party3: | Scottish National Party |
Seats3: | 12 |
Seat Change3: | 12 |
Popular Vote3: | 39,431 |
Percentage3: | 20.3% |
Swing3: | 4.7% |
Party4: | Scottish Conservatives |
Seats4: | 11 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 42,840 |
Percentage4: | 22.1% |
Swing4: | 2.6% |
Party5: | Scottish Greens |
Last Election5: | New party |
Seats5: | 3 |
Seat Change5: | 3 |
Popular Vote5: | 15,959 |
Percentage5: | 8.2% |
Swing5: | New |
Map Size: | 400px |
Elections to the City of Edinburgh Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 17 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.[1] The new wards replace 58 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.
Following the election, a Liberal Democrat-SNP minority administration was formed.[2]
|- class="unsortable" align="centre"!rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward! % !Seats! %!Seats! %!Seats! %!Seats! %!Seats! %!Seats!rowspan=2|Total|- class="unsortable" align="center"!colspan=2 | Lib Dem!colspan=2 | Labour!colspan=2 | SNP!colspan=2 | Conservative!colspan=2 | Green!colspan=2 | Others|-|align="left"|Almond|36.6|1|10.7|0|18.2|1|28.1|1|4.4|0|1.2|0|3|-|align="left"|Pentland Hills|11.4|0|19.5|1|20.3|1|41.7|1|4.3|0|2.0|0|3|-|align="left"|Drum Brae/Gyle|44.8|2|14.8|0|18.4|1|16.1|0|3.2|0|1.6|0|3|-|align="left"|Forth|17.9|1|29.0|1|22.7|1|20.2|1|5.8|0|4.4|0|4|-|align="left"|Inverleith|20.2|1|18.2|1|13.3|1|27.6|1|7.5|0|11.2|0|4|-|align="left"|Corstorphine/Murrayfield|37.7|2|15.2|0|14.9|0|25.7|1|4.8|0|2.7|0|3|-|align="left"|Sighthill/Gorgie|10.6|1|35.3|2|30.9|1|9.6|0|5.7|0|6.0|0|4|-|align="left"|Colinton/Fairmilehead|14.8|0|18.7|1|14.9|0|45.7|2|4.2|0|0.6|0|3|-|align="left"|Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart|17.1|1|22.6|1|18.6|0|27.1|1|11.2|0|2.4|0|3|-|align="left"|Meadows/Morningside|30.8|1|14.0|1|10.5|0|26.4|1|15.2|1|1.4|0|4|-|align="left"|City Centre|19.7|1|17.9|0|20.3|1|20.1|1|16.8|0|4.4|0|3|-|align="left"|Leith Walk|19.0|1|26.9|1|22.3|1|9.7|0|15.3|1|3.4|0|4|-|align="left"|Leith|21.8|1|26.8|1|27.4|1|7.1|0|11.2|0|4.2|0|3|-|align="left"|Craigentinny/Duddingston|10.0|1|34.2|1|29.2|1|14.4|0|5.9|0|5.0|0|3|-|align="left"|Southside/Newington|31.0|1|18.6|1|13.1|0|18.5|1|14.1|1|2.7|0|4|-|align="left"|Liberton/Gilmerton|14.2|1|34.7|2|26.0|1|14.3|0|3.5|0|5.1|0|4|-|align="left"|Portobello/Craigmillar|
08.3|1|30.8|1|28.0|1|11.0|0|6.7|0|13.2|0|3|- class="unsortable"!align="left"| Total!22.0!17!22.9!15!20.3!12!22.1!11!8.2!3!4.5!0!58|-|}A by-election arose following the death of Labour Cllr Elizabeth Maginnis on 7 September 2008. The seat was held by Labour's Cammy Day
A by-election arose following the resignation of Ian Murray after his election as an MP on 6 May 2010. The seat was held by Labour's Bill Cook on 9 September 2010.[3]
A by-election arose following the resignation of SNP Cllr David Beckett on 9 June 2011. The seat was held by the SNP's Alasdair Rankin on 18 August 2011.