| Prestwick | |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Council: | South Ayrshire |
| Region: | Scotland |
| Map1: | South Ayrshire UK ward map 2017 Prestwick.svg |
| Map Entity: | South Ayrshire |
| Map Year: | 2017 |
| Previous: | Prestwick Kingcase Prestwick St Cuthbert's and Monkton Prestwick St Nicholas' Prestwick St Ninian's Prestwick Toll |
| Electorate: | 12,507 (2022) |
| Population: | 14,220 (2021)[1] |
| Elects Howmany: | 4 |
| Councillor1: | Ian Cochrane |
| Party1: | Scottish National Party |
| Councillor2: | Hugh Hunter |
| Party2: | Independent (politician) |
| Councillor3: | Martin Kilbride |
| Party3: | Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party |
| Councillor4: | Cameron Ramsay |
| Party4: | Scottish Labour Party |
| Towns: | Prestwick |
| Scot Parl: | Ayr |
| Scot Region: | South Scotland |
| Westminster: | Central Ayrshire |
Prestwick is one of the eight electoral wards of South Ayrshire Council. Created in 2007, the ward elects four councillors using the single transferable vote electoral system and covers an area with a population of 14,220 people.
The area has been a Conservative stronghold with the party holding half the seats between 2007 and 2022.
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 Prestwick was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards.
It contained all of the former Prestwick Kingcase, Prestwick St Nicholas' and Prestwick St Ninian's wards as well as the northern part of the former Prestwick Toll ward and the southern half of the former Prestwick St Cuthbert's and Monkton ward. The ward centres on the town of Prestwick which is situated on the Firth of Clyde coast in the northwest of the council area and includes the terminal buildings of Glasgow Prestwick Airport but only part of the runways.[2] The ward's boundaries were unchanged following the Fifth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2017 Scottish local elections.[3]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Stan Fisher (SNP) | Hugh Hunter (Conservative/ Indpendent) | Helen Moonie (Labour) | Margaret Toner (Conservative) | ||||
| 2012 | Ian Cochrane (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Cameron Ramsay (Labour) | Martin Kilbride (Conservative) | ||||||
See main article: 2022 South Ayrshire Council election.
See main article: 2017 South Ayrshire Council election.
See main article: 2012 South Ayrshire Council election.
See main article: 2007 South Ayrshire Council election.