| Kilmarnock North | |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Council: | East Ayrshire |
| Region: | Scotland |
| Map1: | Kilmarnock North.svg |
| Map Entity: | East Ayrshire |
| Map Year: | 2007–2017 |
| Previous: | Altonhill, Hillhead and Longpark Kilmaurs and Stewarton South North Kilmarnock, Fenwick and Waterside North New Farm Loch and Dean Onthank |
| Electorate: | 9,748 (2022) |
| Population: | 12,243 (2021)[1] |
| Elects Howmany: | 3 |
| Councillor1: | Elaine Cowan |
| Party1: | Scottish National Party |
| Councillor2: | David William Richardson |
| Party2: | Scottish National Party |
| Councillor3: | Maureen McKay |
| Party3: | Scottish Labour Party |
| Towns: | Kilmarnock (part of) |
| Scot Parl: | Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley |
| Scot Region: | South Scotland |
| Westminster: | Kilmarnock and Loudon |
Kilmarnock North 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 12,243 people.
The area is a Scottish National Party (SNP) stronghold with the party holding two of the three seats at all but one election since the ward's creation.
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 Kilmarnock North was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards. It contained all of the former Onthank ward as well as parts of the former Kilmaurs and Stewarton South, |North Kilmarnock, Fenwick and Waterside, Altonhill, Hillhead and Longpark and North New Farm Loch and Dean wards.
Initially, Kilmarnock North included the northernmost part of Kilmarnock including the neighbourhoods of Onthank, Altonhill, Hillhead, Longpark and Southcraigs as well as Dean Castle Country Park.[2] Following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections, the ward's eastern boundary was moved west to run along the B7038 instead of the Kilmarnock Water and Craufurdland Water. As a result, Dean Castle Country Park is now contained within the Kilmarnock East and Hurlford ward.[3]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Willie Coffey (SNP) | Helen Coffey (SNP) | Maureen McKay (Labour) | |||||
| 2012 | Andrew Hershaw (SNP) | |||||||
| 2014 by-election | Elaine Cowan (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Ian Grant (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | Elaine Cowan (SNP) | David William Richardson (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.