Drum Brae/Gyle (ward)

Drum Brae/Gyle 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 three Councillors.

Location of the ward within Edinburgh^[1]

The ward covers an area in the far west of the city, bounded generally by Corstorphine Hill, the Queensferry Road (A90), Maybury Road (A902) and Edinburgh City Bypass (A720) roads, and the Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line railway; it includes the Bughtlin, Clermiston, Clerwood, Craigmount, Drumbrae, East Craigs, Gogarloch, Maybury, North Gyle, Parkgrove, South Gyle and West Craigs neighbourhoods,^[3] as well as the Edinburgh Park commercial district. A minor boundary change in 2017 caused the loss of the Wester Broom neighbourhood and the addition of Forrester with a negligible effect on the population, which in 2019 stood at 23,534.^[4]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Colin Keir (SNP)		Robert Aldridge (Liberal Democrats)		Jenny Dawe (Liberal Democrats)
2012	Ron Cairns (SNP)		Karen Keil (Labour)
2017	Claire Bridgman (SNP)		Mark Brown (Conservative)
2022	Euan Hyslop (SNP)		Edward John Thornley (Liberal Democrats)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 City of Edinburgh Council election

Drum Brae/Gyle - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Christopher Aldridge (incumbent)	42.2	3,988
	SNP	Euan Hyslop	23.9	2,263	2,345	2,349	2,355	2,655
	Conservative	Mark Brown (incumbent)	11.1	1,047	1,232	1,235	1,266	1,283	1,296	1,387
	Liberal Democrats	Edward John Thornley	9.6	909	2,074	2,079	2,089	2,213	2,263	2,578
	Labour	Nkechi Okoro	6.2	587	659	661	671	772	861
	Scottish Green	Anne Scott	5.9	554	595	599	616
	Scottish Family	Eileen Johnston	0.8	79	88	94
	Scottish Libertarian	Gary Smith	0.3	24	29
Electorate: 18,822   Valid: 9,451   Spoilt: 109   Quota: 2,363   Turnout: 50.8%

Source: ^[5][6]

2017 election

2017 City of Edinburgh Council election^[7]

Drum Brae/Gyle Ward - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Christopher Aldridge (incumbent)	33.5%	3,176
	SNP	Claire Bridgman	26.8%	2,541
	Conservative	Mark Brown	22.0%	2,084	2,411
	Labour	Karen Ann Keil (incumbent)	13.3%	1,262	1,483
	Scottish Green	Phyl Meyer	4.3%	411	521
Electorate: 18,321   Valid: 9,474   Spoilt: 82   Quota: 2,369   Turnout: 52.2%

On 17 July 2018, SNP councillor Claire Bridgman resigned from the party for undisclosed reasons and became an Independent.^[8]

2012 election

2012 City of Edinburgh Council election

Drum Brae/Gyle Ward - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Karen Keil	26.46%	1,981
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Aldridge (incumbent)	18.77%	1,405	1,425	1,431	1,490	1,636	1,695	1,735	2,312
	SNP	Ron Cairns *	18.34%	1,373	1,383	1,386	1,406	1,466	2,052
	Conservative	Mark Brown	16.04%	1,201	1,207	1,212	1,233	1,349	1,370	1,383
	SNP	Alison Lindsay	8.66%	648	657	661	699	750
	Independent	Steven Binney	6.92%	518	532	588	663
	Scottish Green	Linda Hendry	3.62%	271	285	296
	Independent	John Scott	1.20%	90	95
Electorate: 17,123   Valid: 7,487   Spoilt: 78   Quota: 1,872   Turnout: 7,565 (44.2%)

2007 election

2007 City of Edinburgh Council election

2007 Council election: Drum Brae/Gyle Ward

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Aldridge	25.2	2,630
	Liberal Democrats	Jenny Dawe	19.6	2,049	2,078.99	2,100.27	2,113.31	2,234.21	2,702.55
	SNP	Colin G Keir	18.4	1,917	1,920.20	1,939.32	1,956.32	2,018.71	2,263.43	2,287.23	2,725.43
	Conservative	Steven Binney	16.1	1,676	1,679.60	1,684.67	1,687.67	1,716.86	1,865.21	1,889.87
	Labour	Cameron Day	14.8	1,545	1,549.01	1,559.12	1,576.19	1,631.28
	Scottish Green	Fiona A Paterson	3.2	330	331.94	337.99	361.09
	Scottish Socialist	Iain Pendreich	0.8	88	88.24	89.26
	Liberal	Roy Isserlis	0.8	85	85.84
Electorate: 17,364   Valid: 10,320   Spoilt: 113   Quota: 2,581   Turnout: 60.1%