North Kincardine (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

North Kincardine is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Ian Mollison (Liberal Democrats)		Paul Melling (Liberal Democrats)		Carl H Nelson (Conservative)		Alastair Bews (SNP/Alba)[2]
2012			Alison Evison (Labour)
2017	Colin Pike (Conservative/ Independent)[3]
2021
2022	Mel Sullivan (Liberal Democrats)		David Aitchison (SNP)		Shirley Burnett (Conservative)		Catherine Victor (SNP)

Election Results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeenshire Council election

North Kincardine − 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	SNP	David Aitchison[note 1]	21.6	1,182
	Conservative	Shirley Burnett	15.6	855	856	863	898	906	1,457
	Liberal Democrats	Mel Sullivan	15.5	850	852	864	896	993	1,016	1,126
	SNP	Catherine Mary Victor[note 2]	14.6	799	865	870	903	1,052	1,053	1,059	1,064	1,214
	Conservative	Jeff Hutchison[note 3]	11.3	620	621	626	633	637
	Independent	Colin Pike (incumbent)	9.6	527	528	534	649	684	718	804	815
	Scottish Green	Louise Claire Ross	5.7	314	319	335	348
	Independent	Alastair Bews (incumbent)	4.7	255	259	269
	Scottish Family	Elizabeth Wilson Leslie	1.4	75	76
Electorate: 12,478   Valid: 5,477   Spoilt: 80   Quota: 1,096   Turnout: 44.5%

Source:^[5][6]

2017 Election

2017 Aberdeenshire Council election^[7]

North Kincardine - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Conservative	Colin Pike	30.46	1,685
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Mollison (incumbent)	22.08	1,221
	SNP	Alastair Bews (incumbent)	20.55	1,138
	Labour	Alison Evison (incumbent)	16.27	901	1,074.91	1,124.67
	SNP	Kes Smith	6.47	358	375.49	387.16
	Scottish Green	William Ball	3.25	180	224.25	237.88
	SDP	David Lansdell	0.87	48	95.34	100.66
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 5,531   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 1,107   Turnout: 5,579 (45.2%)

2012 Election

2012 Aberdeenshire Council election^[8]

North Kincardine - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Alastair Bews (incumbent)	24.94%	988
	Labour	Alison Evison	21.53%	853
	Conservative	Carl Nelson (incumbent)	19.74%	782	785.7	790.3	812.7
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Mollison (incumbent)	11.71%	464	466.8	472.8	478.1	484.7	833.2
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Melling (incumbent)	10.48%	415	423.1	434.9	437.4	441.7
	SNP	Alan Inglis	10.43%	413	585.3	598.4	607.4	609.1	644.7
	Scottish Christian	Tom Morrow	1.16%	46	46.8	49.6
Electorate: 10,563   Valid: 3,961   Spoilt: 36   Quota: 793   Turnout: 3,997 (37.50%)

2007 Election

2007 Aberdeenshire Council election

North Kincardine

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Alastair Bews	27.8	1,426
	Conservative	Carl H Nelson	18.4	946	972	1,008	1,065
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Melling	16.8	864	957	978	1,124
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Mollison	12.1	619	652	689	799	863	875	1,119
	Independent	Henry Irvine-Fortescue	11.2	575	613	659	707	713	723
	Labour	Jim Milne	10.5	540	586	596
	Independent	Michelle Reid-Hay	3.2	162	194
Electorate:     Valid: 5,132   Spoilt: 37   Quota: 1,027   Turnout: 52.36%

Notes

1. Sitting councillor for West Hill and District.
2. In 2024, Cllr Victor was suspended by the SNP.^[4]
3. Sitting councillor for Mearns.

References

1. "Scottish Boundary Commission | he Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland".
2. "Former SNP councillors join Salmond's Alba Party amid concerns Sturgeon 'has no plan to achieve independence referendum'".
3. "One off the Ledger | LocalCouncils.co.uk".
4. Bowie, Justin (9 February 2024). "Aberdeenshire SNP councillor suspended for sharing anti-Semitic post mocking up Israeli PM as Hitler". The Press and Journal. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
5. "Local Government Election 2022 results: Ward 17 - North Kincardine". Aberdeenshire Council. 6 May 2022. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
6. "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report" (PDF). Aberdeenshire Council. 6 May 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
7. "Local Government Elections 2017 - Results - Aberdeenshire Council". www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
8. "Aberdeenshire Council - Local Election Results 2007". www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 12 May 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022.