Forth is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council.[2] Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it currently elects four Councillors. Its territory covers communities in the north of the city between Ferry Road and the coast on the Firth of Forth, including Granton, Newhaven, Pilton, Trinity, Victoria Park and Wardie, some of which historically fell within the boundaries of Leith.[3] A 2017 boundary change caused the loss of the Muirhouse neighbourhood, but housebuilding elsewhere (including various projects in Granton) meant the overall population increased slightly. In 2019, the ward had a population of 31,823.[4]
Councillors
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Steve Cardownie (SNP) |
Elaine P Morris (Liberal Democrats) |
Elizabeth Maginnis (Labour) |
Allan Jackson (Conservative) | ||||
| 2008 by | Cammy Day (Labour) | |||||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2017 | Eleanor Bird (SNP) |
George Gordon (SNP) |
Jim Campbell (Conservative) | |||||
| 2022[5] | Stuart Dobbin (SNP) |
Sanne Dijkstra-Downie (Liberal Democrats) |
Kayleigh O'Neill (Green) | |||||
Election Results
2022 Election
2022 City of Edinburgh Council election[6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Sanne Dijkstra-Downie | 19.7% | 2,077 | |
| Labour | Cammy Day (incumbent) | 18.9% | 1,995 | |
| SNP | Stuart Dobbin | 18.2% | 1,917 | |
| Conservative | Jim Campbell (incumbent) | 15.1% | 1,594 | |
| SNP | Carrie Gooch | 12.8% | 1,353 | |
| Scottish Green | Kayleigh O'Neill | 12.7% | 1,337 | |
| Scottish Family | Linda Lenora Campbell | 1.4% | 152 | |
| Women's Equality | Kerry Elizabeth Heathcote | 1.2% | 130 | |
| Electorate: 24,934 Valid: 10,555 Spoilt: 178 Quota: 2,112 Turnout: 43.0% | ||||
2017 Election
2017 City of Edinburgh Council election[7]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Conservative | Jim Campbell | 28.38% | 2,951 | ||||||||
| Labour | Cammy Day (incumbent) | 15.18% | 1,579 | 1,710 | 1,731 | 2,157 | |||||
| SNP | Eleanor Bird | 17.94% | 1,866 | 1,879 | 1,894 | 1,917 | 1,923 | 2,313 | |||
| SNP | George Gordon | 13.37% | 1,390 | 1,302 | 1,421 | 1,457 | 1,463 | 1,638 | 1,836 | 2,207 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tim Wight | 7.81% | 812 | 1,073 | 1,149 | 1,200 | 1,220 | 1,572 | 1,582 | ||
| Scottish Green | Gillian MacKay | 9.99% | 1,039 | 1,085 | 1,130 | 1,165 | 1,178 | ||||
| Labour | Heather Pugh | 5.55% | 577 | 623 | 651 | ||||||
| Independent | Nicola Ross | 1.78% | 185 | 269 | |||||||
| Electorate: 23,348 Valid: 10,399 Spoilt: 214 Quota: 2,080 Turnout: 45.5% | |||||||||||
2012 Election
2012 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Cammy Day (incumbent) | 27.54% | 2,230 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Allan Jackson (incumbent) | 22.64% | 1,833 | ||||||||
| SNP | Steve Cardownie (incumbent) | 17.01% | 1,377 | 1,407 | 1,422 | 1,432 | 1,443 | 1,482 | 1,554 | 2,377 | |
| SNP | George Gordon | 12.05% | 976 | 1,008 | 1,017 | 1,019 | 1,034 | 1,070 | 1,187 | ||
| Scottish Green | Kate Joester | 7.08% | 573 | 598 | 626 | 637 | 683 | 850 | |||
| Labour | Vicki Redpath | 6.47% | 524 | 962 | 976 | 987 | 1,009 | 1,099 | 1,347 | 1,446 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Tim Wight | 5.06% | 410 | 423 | 473 | 495 | 500 | ||||
| TUSC | Ruth Ann Henderson | 1.44% | 117 | 127 | 130 | 132 | |||||
| Liberal | Seumas Stiubhard MacMhicean | 0.70% | 57 | 64 | 73 | ||||||
| Electorate: 21,796 Valid: 8,097 Spoilt: 136 (1.65%) Quota: 1,620 Turnout: 8,233 (37.8%) | |||||||||||
2007 Election
2007 City of Edinburgh Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | Steve Cardownie | 22.67 | 2,472 | |||||||||
| Conservative | Allan Jackson | 20.23 | 2,206 | |||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Elaine P Morris | 17.91 | 1,953 | 2,000.44 | 2,008.23 | 2,020.41 | 2,059.83 | 2,094.96 | 2,436.61 | |||
| Labour | Elizabeth Maginnis | 14.82 | 1,616 | 1,640.13 | 1,642.50 | 1,650.86 | 1,676.12 | 1,694.00 | 1,795.54 | 1,856.72 | 3,100.78 | |
| Labour | Billy Fitzpatrick | 14.19 | 1,547 | 1,581.61 | 1,582.56 | 1,588.91 | 1,612.69 | 1,672.18 | 1,755.67 | 1,797.68 | ||
| Scottish Green | Kate Joester | 5.75 | 627 | 670.55 | 672.98 | 698.89 | 744.24 | 822.04 | ||||
| Independent | Fred Marinello | 1.84 | 201 | 217.44 | 218.71 | 225.06 | ||||||
| Solidarity | Willie Black | 1.81 | 197 | 227.49 | 227.70 | 246.67 | 270.03 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | Marilyn Sangster | 0.77 | 84 | 92.95 | 93.03 | |||||||
| Electorate: 20,744 Valid: 10,903 Spoilt: 180 Quota: 2,181 Turnout: 53.4% | ||||||||||||
Councillor Elaine Morris defected from the Liberal Democrats to the Scottish National Party on 21 July 2011.
2008 By-election
A by-election arose following the death of Labour councillor Elizabeth Maginnis on 7 September 2008. The seat was held by Labour's Cammy Day.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | Cammy Day | 29.53 | 2,013 | 2,014 | 2,023 | 2,042 | 2,134 | 2,228 | 2,543 | 2,810 | 3,735 | |
| SNP | George Gordon | 27.01 | 1,841 | 1,843 | 1,849 | 1,861 | 1,920 | 2,005 | 2,259 | 2,529 | ||
| Conservative | Iain McGill | 17.31 | 1,180 | 1,184 | 1,187 | 1,188 | 1,199 | 1,225 | 1,453 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Sanne C Djikstra-Downie | 14.45 | 985 | 987 | 989 | 995 | 1,033 | 1,155 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Kate Joester | 5.06 | 341 | 343 | 360 | 373 | 410 | |||||
| Independent | John Loughton | 4.36 | 297 | 303 | 307 | 323 | ||||||
| Solidarity_(Scotland) | Willie Black | 1.17 | 80 | 80 | 84 | |||||||
| Scottish Socialist | Robert Richard | 1.0 | 53 | 54 | ||||||||
| Independent | James G MacLean | 0.05 | 26 | |||||||||
| Labour hold | Swing | |||||||||||
| Electorate: 21,560 Valid: 6,816 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 3,409 Turnout: 6,886 | ||||||||||||
References
- ↑ "Map of City of Edinburgh wards, councillors and MSPS".
- ↑ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ↑ Explore Leith with our interactive map, Leith Local History Society
- ↑ Electoral Ward: Forth, Scottish Government Statistics
- ↑ https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/file/30997/ward-4-forth-results-2022
- ↑ "Local Government Election 2022 results". City of Edinburgh Council. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ↑ "Local Government Election 2017 results".
- ↑ "Forth By-Election Result (2008)" (PDF). City of Edinburgh Council. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
External links
- Listed Buildings in Forth Ward, City of Edinburgh at British Listed Buildings
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