Culloden and Ardersier (ward)

Culloden and Ardersier is one of the 21 wards used to elect members of the Highland Council. It includes the villages of Culloden, Ardersier and Smithton. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Robert Wynd (SNP)		Glynis Sinclair (Liberal Democrats /SNP)		John Ford (Labour)		Roddy Balfour (Ind.)
2012		Kate Stephen (Liberal Democrats)
Oct 2016			Trish Robertson (Liberal Democrats)
2017	3 seats
2022		Morven Reid (Ind.)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Highland Council election

Culloden and Ardersier - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Glynis Campbell-Sinclair (incumbent)	37.6	1,542
	Conservative	Mary Scanlon	17.8	732	743	745	753	805
	Independent	Morven Reid	15.3	626	721	740	831	960	1,148
	Liberal Democrats	Trish Robertson (incumbent)	15.3	626	693	695	727	931	1,298
	Labour	Steven Calvert	10.1	413	505	507	545
	Alba	Mya Chemonges-Murzynowska	3.3	137	244	245
	Independent	Mel Robertson	0.6	24	31
Electorate: 9,107   Valid: 4,100   Spoilt: 40   Quota: 1,026   Turnout: 45.5%

Source:^[2][3]

2017 election

2017 Highland Council election^[4]

Culloden and Ardersier - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Glynis Campbell-Sinclair (incumbent)	17.7%	669	677	704	724	1,280
	Independent	Roddy Balfour (incumbent)	20.2%	763	790	817	864	900	972.5
	Liberal Democrats	Trish Robertson (incumbent)	15.6%	592	601	633	707	743	800.4	810.9	1,188.7
	Conservative	Raine Cullen	18.1%	685	697	705	731	736	744.9	751.09
	SNP	Pauline Munro	16.5%	623	627	655	682
	Labour	Matt Wakeling	5.7%	215	220	241
	Scottish Green	Donnie MacLeod	3.9%	149	156
	Independent	Thomas Lamont	2.3%	86
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 3,782   Spoilt: 60   Quota: 946   Turnout: 3,842 (47.1%)

2016 by-election

Culloden and Arderseir By-election (6 October 2016) - 1 Seat^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Pauline Munro	27.2	753	755	775	796	862	908	970	1,001
	Liberal Democrats	Trish Robertson	16.7	463	464	479	515	564	703	793	1,026
	Conservative	Andrew Jarvie	15.9	439	442	452	468	478	515	589
	Independent	John Ross	11.4	315	317	330	339	362
	Independent	Duncan MacPherson	9.9	274	285	324	346	369	414
	Scottish Green	Isla MacLeod-O'Reilly	6.5	180	182	188	209
	Labour	Andrew MacKintosh	5.9	163	163	180
	Independent	David McGrath	5.7	158	158
	Independent	Thomas Lamont	0.8	23
Electorate: 9,237   Valid: 2,768   Spoilt: 50   Quota: 1,385   Turnout: 2,818 (30.51%)

2012 election

2012 Highland Council election

Culloden and Ardersier - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Independent	Roddy Balfour (incumbent)	29.71%	1,023
	SNP	Glynis Sinclair (incumbent)	16.44%	566	616.6	618.6	621.9	648.1	678	682.3	1,024.6
	Labour	John Ford (incumbent)††††††††††††	13.91%	479	509.4	514.3	524.3	547.6	586.8	595.9	644.3
	Liberal Democrats	Kate Stephen	13.8%	475	530.8	535.8	618.6	668.4	728.5
	SNP	Bob Wynd (incumbent)	10.89%	375	390.7	393.9	402.7	429.9	455.2	459.6
	Scottish Green	Donnie MacLeod	4.93%	170	209.2	219.1	227.4
	Independent	David McGrath	4.79%	165	192.1	238.1	261.9	300.9
	Conservative	Alex Stephen	4.47%	154	177.2	178.8
	Independent	Bill Jamieson	1.05%	36	82.4
Electorate: 8,606   Valid: 3,443   Spoilt: 36   Quota: 689   Turnout: 3,479 (40.43%)

2007 election

2007 Highland Council election

The Highland Council election, 2007: Culloden and Ardersier

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Robert Wynd	1,335	28.7	1	1
	Independent	Roddy Balfour	1,308	28.1	2	1
	Labour	John Ford	816	17.5	3	4
	Liberal Democrats	Glynis Sinclair	663	14.3	4	4
	Conservative	John Ross	318	6.8
	Independent	Jim Ferguson	213	4.6