Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone (ward)

Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone is a ward represented in the Aberdeen City Council. As with all Scottish councils, the council elects its councillors by the Single transferable vote system of election every five years.

Dyce/Buckburn/Danestone
ward Aberdeen City Council
Boundary of Dyce/Buckburn/Danestone in Aberdeen from 2017.
Lieutenancy area	Aberdeen
Electorate	15,278
Current ward
Created	2007 (2007)
Councillor	Neil MacGregor (SNP)
Councillor	Gill Samarai (SNP)
Councillor	Barney Crockett (Labour)
Councillor	Graeme Lawrence (Labour)

The ward elects four councillors.

Barney Crockett of the Labour Party, and Neil MacGregor and Gill Samarai, both of the Scottish National Party have been councillors in the ward since 2017,^{[note 1]} whilst Graeme Lawrence of the Labour Party was elected in a by-election in 2023.

Boundaries

In the Fourth Statutory Review of Electoral Arrangements, conducted by The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland, and published in 2006, the ward is described to contain the areas of Dyce, Aberdeen Airport and its surrounding area, Stoneywood, Bankhead, and Bucksburn.^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Mark McDonald (SNP)		Barney Crockett (Labour)		Ron Clark (Liberal Democrats)		George Penny (Liberal Democrats)
2011 by-election			Neil MacGregor (SNP)
2012	Gill Samarai (SNP)				Graeme Lawrence (Labour)
2017					Avril MacKenzie (Conservative)
2022
2023 by-election					Graeme Lawrence (Labour)

Election results

2023 by-election

A by-election was held on 23 February 2023 after Conservative councillor Avril MacKenzie died on 1 December 2022.^[2] It was won by Labour's Graeme Lawrence, who previously represented the ward from 2012 to 2017.^[3]

Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone by-election (23 February 2023) – 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Tomasz Brzezinski	30.5	1,455	1,461	1,465	1,513	1,604	1,674	1,729
	Labour	Graeme Lawrence	25.7	1,227	1,233	1,255	1,282	1,306	1,459	1,971	2,596
	Conservative	Akila Kanthaswamy	24.9	1,190	1,192	1,201	1,205	1,216	1,310
	Liberal Democrats	Mevrick Fernandes	9.4	452	460	464	480	491
	Alba	Charlie Abel	3.7	178	181	183	191
	Scottish Green	Sylvia Hardie	2.3	111	116	121
	Scottish Family	Amy-Marie Stratton	1.2	60	68
	Independent	Simon McLean	1.1	52
Electorate: 16,926   Valid: 4,772   Spoilt: 47   Quota: 2,363   Turnout: 28.2%

Source:^[4][5]

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeen City Council election

Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone – 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Gill Al-Samarai (incumbent)	23.3	1,538
	Conservative	Avril MacKenzie (incumbent)	21.0	1,387
	SNP	Neil MacGregor (incumbent)	18.0	1,188	1,362
	Labour	Barney Crockett (incumbent)[note 2]	17.8	1,174	1,184	1,187	1,193	1,207	1,311	1,408
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Heald	8.8	579	584	587	592	608	717	850
	Conservative	Braiden Smith	5.2	341	341	397	398	419	433
	Scottish Green	William Ball	4.5	296	312	312	327	345
	Scottish Family	Amy-Marie Stratton	1.4	95	96	96	98
Electorate: 16,446   Valid: 6,598   Spoilt: 168   Quota: 1,320   Turnout: 41.1%

Source:^[7][8]

Elections of the 2010s

Aberdeen City Council election: 4 May 2017^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Avril MacKenzie	30.4	2,012
	SNP	Neil MacGregor (incumbent)	25.3	1,670
	SNP	Gill Samarai (incumbent)	11.9	785	798.7	1,087.3	1,115.5	1,176.8	1,317.9
	Labour	Barney Crockett (incumbent)‡	11.3	744	806	813.5	1,141.6	1,273.4	1,483.7
	Independent	Coral Duthie	7.7	509	658.1	669.8	708.9	942.9
	Labour	Graeme Lawrence (incumbent)	6.9	458	504.9	514.3
	Liberal Democrats	Dorothy Pearce	6.5	430	614.5	625.5	666.2
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 6,608   Spoilt: 145   Quota: 1,322   Turnout: 6,753 (44.2%)

Aberdeen City Council election: 3 May 2012^[10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Barney Crockett (incumbent)	29.4%	1,378
	SNP	Neil MacGregor (incumbent)	25.5%	1,198
	SNP	Gill Samarai	8.8%	412	419	513.1	525.7	536.4	544.1	948.6
	Conservative	Duncan Stewart	7.7%	360	367	370.3	380.7	402.6
	SNP	Caroline Elizabeth Little	7.6%	358	367.6	479.8	487.4	507.4	525.3
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Malone	7.5%	353	368.3	377.4	392.8	428.1	585.7	607.1	607.7
	Labour	Graeme Lawrence	7.3%	344	681.7	693.1	718.1	771	816.2	834.2	835.2	991.4
	Independent	Angela Joss	3.7%	174	190.2	195.9	232.8
	Scottish Green	Rhonda Reekie	2.5%	117	128.1	134.9
Electorate: 14,122   Valid: 4,694   Spoilt: 92   Quota: 939   Turnout: 4,786 (33.24%)

Dyce/Bucksburn/Danestone by-election: 19th May 2011^[11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	SNP	Neil MacGregor	51.4	2,090
	Labour	Graeme Lawrence	23.1	941
	Liberal Democrats	Kristian Chapman	11.0	446
	Conservative	Ross Thomson	8.7	352
	Independent	Angela Joss	3.7	150
	Scottish Green	Rhonda Reekie	2.2	88
	SNP gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
Electorate:     Valid: 4,067   Spoilt:     Quota: 2,034   Turnout: 29.5%

Elections of the 2000s

Aberdeen City Council election: 3 May 2007^[12]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Mark McDonald	36.2	2,620
	Labour	Barney Crockett	24.9	1,801	1,801
	Liberal Democrats	Ron Clark	21.2	1,534	1,534	1,534
	Liberal Democrats	George Penny	5.0	360	593	667	713	727	769	885
	Conservative	Avril MacKenzie	8.3	603	701	730	738	752	781	833
	Scottish Green	Rhonda Reekie	2.0	147	298	330	335	348	409
	Independent	Angela Dunn	1.6	116	190	211	214	260
	Independent	Dennis Grattan	0.8	57	117	131	133
Electorate:     Valid: 7,238   Spoilt: 111   Quota: 1,448   Turnout: 7,349

Notes

1. As with all Scottish councils, the ward elects four councillors by the Single transferable vote system of election every five years.
2. Cllr Crockett resigned from Labour in June 2023 to sit as an independent.^[6]