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Inverurie and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.

Councillors

Election Councillors
2007 Bryan Hunter Stuart
(SNP)
Mike Raeburn Lonchay
(Liberal Democrats)
Martin Kitts-Hayes
(Liberal Democrats)
Richard Cowling
(Conservative)
2012 Hamish Vernal
(SNP)
2017 Neil Baillie
(SNP)
Judy Margaret Whyte
(Independent)
Marion Ewenson
(Liberal Democrats)
Colin Clark
(Conservative)
2022 David Keating
(Conservative)

Election results

2022 election

2022 Aberdeenshire Council election

2017 Election

2017 Aberdeenshire Council election

Inverurie and District - 4 seats
Party Candidate  % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Colin Clark (incumbent)† 35.95 1,732      
SNP Neil Baillie 22.52 1,085      
Independent Judy Margaret Whyte 20.38 982      
Scottish Liberal Democrats Marion Ewenson 11.79 568 951.1 958.69 965.63
SNP Bryan Hunter Stuart (incumbent) 5.09 245 261.41 360.1 362.9
Scottish Labour Party Sarah Flavell 4.28 206 265.42 269.77 271.69
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 4,818   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 964   Turnout: 4,866 (43.3%)

2012 Election

2012 Aberdeenshire Council election

Inverurie and District - 4 seats
Party Candidate  % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4 Count 5 Count 6 Count 7
SNP Bryan Hunter Stuart (incumbent) 19.7 688 701          
SNP Hamish Vernal 17.5 612 621 621.8 643.8 685.8 690.2 806.2
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Richard Cowling (incumbent) 17.4 608 614 614.0 636.0 684.0 692.1 771.4
Scottish Liberal Democrats Martin Christopher Kitts-Hayes (incumbent) †† 17.3 606 632 632.0 660.0 730.0    
Scottish Labour Party Ellis Thorpe 13.2 463 477 477.1 503.1 562.1 568.9  
Independent Mike Raeburn (incumbent) 6.0 211 225 225.0 300.0      
Independent Ron Reid 5.6 196 212 212.0        
Scottish Green Party Karen A. MacKenzie 3.2 113            
Electorate: 10,034   Valid: 3,497   Spoilt: 59   Quota: 700   Turnout: 3,556 (34.85%)

2007 Election

2007 Aberdeenshire Council election

Inverurie and District
Party Candidate  % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4 Count 5 Count 6
SNP Bryan Hunter Stuart 29.6 1,515          
Scottish Liberal Democrats Mike Raeburn 25.7 1,316          
Scottish Liberal Democrats Martin Kitts-Hayes 16.9 865 975 1,172      
Scottish Conservative Party Richard Cowling 14.9 762 823 837 864 928 1,190
Scottish Labour Party Ellis Thorpe 11.1 567 637 659 693 737  
Independent John Sangster 1.7 87 165 175 192    
Electorate: -   Valid: 5,148   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,030   Turnout: 56.32%

By-election

Following the election of Colin Clark (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party) to Westminster at the 2017 United Kingdom general election on 8 June and his subsequent resignation as Councillor for Inverurie & District ward, a by-election was called on Thursday, 12 October 2017.

2017 By-election

Inverurie & District By-election 2017 - Aberdeenshire Council

Inverurie & District - 1 seat
Party Candidate  % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Lesley Berry 48.17% 1,672 1,679 1,715 1,871
SNP Elaine Mitchell 33.02% 1,146 1,161 1,234 1,300
Scottish Liberal Democrats Scott James Bremner 8.50% 295 309 412  
Scottish Labour Party Sarah Flavell 7.95% 276 290    
Scottish Green Party Craig Stewart 1.61% 56      
Electorate: 11,233   Valid: 3,445   Spoilt: 26   Quota: 1,723   Turnout: 30.9%
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