| Doon Valley | |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Council: | East Ayrshire |
| Region: | Scotland |
| Map1: | Doon Valley.svg |
| Map Entity: | East Ayrshire |
| Map Year: | 2007–2017 |
| Previous: | Dalmellington Drongan, Stair and Rankinston Ochiltree, Skares, Netherthird and Craigens Patna and Dalrymple |
| Electorate: | 8,932 (2022) |
| Population: | 11,592 (2021)[1] |
| Elects Howmany: | 3 |
| Councillor1: | Drew Filson |
| Party1: | Independent (politician) |
| Councillor2: | Elaine Stewart |
| Party2: | Scottish Labour Party |
| Councillor3: | Jennifer Hogg |
| Party3: | Scottish National Party |
| Towns: | Dalmellington Drongan Patna |
| Scot Parl: | Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley |
| Scot Region: | South Scotland |
| Westminster: | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock |
Doon Valley is one of the nine electoral wards of East Ayrshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects three councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 11,592 people.
The area was previously a Labour stronghold with the party holding two of the three seats between 2009 and 2017. However, the ward has since been split between Labour and the Scottish National Party (SNP).
The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections. As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Doon Valley was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Patna and Dalrymple ward as well as part of the former Drongan, Stair and Rankinston, Dalmellington and Ochiltree, Skares, Netherthird and Craigens wards. Doon Valley includes the southernmost part of the council area between its borders with South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway and takes in the towns of Dalmellington, Patna and Drongan. The River Doon runs north-south through the ward and into Loch Doon which lies in the south of the ward.[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's boundaries were not changed.[3]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Elaine Dinwoodie (Labour) | Drew Filson (SNP) | Jim Sutherland (Ind.) | |||||
| 2009 | Moira Pirie (Labour) | |||||||
| 2012 | John Bell (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Drew Filson (Ind.) | |||||||
| 2022 | Elaine Stewart (Labour) | Jennifer Hogg (SNP) | ||||||
See main article: 2022 East Ayrshire Council election.
See main article: 2017 East Ayrshire Council election.
See main article: 2012 East Ayrshire Council election.
See main article: 2007 East Ayrshire Council election.