Ellon and District (ward)

Ellon and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. It elects four Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Rob Merson (SNP)		Isobel Davidson (Liberal Democrats)		Debra Margaret Storr (Liberal Democrats /Green)		Gillian Louise Owen (Conservative)
2009
2012			Richard Thomson (SNP)
2017	Anouk Kloppert (SNP)
2020		Louise McAllister (SNP)
2022			John Crawley (Conservative)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeenshire Council election

Ellon and District − 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Liberal Democrats	Isobel Davidson (incumbent)	22.0	1,205
	SNP	Louise McAllister (incumbent)	20.8	1,139
	Conservative	John Crawley	19.1	1,050	1,063	1,064	1,070	1,140
	Conservative	Gillian Owen (incumbent)	16.5	906	935	936	946	993	1,028	1,202
	SNP	Josh Gall	10.9	599	612	645	772	871	873
	Labour	Mark Lappin	6.3	348	370	371	444
	Green	Craig William Stewart	4.4	241	255	258
Electorate: 11,837   Valid: 5,488   Spoilt: 76   Quota: 1,098   Turnout: 47.0%

Source:^[2][3]

2020 by-election

Ellon & District By-election (15 October 2020) - 1 Seat ^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	SNP	Louise Mcallister	42.4	1,683	1,725	1,757	1,916
	Conservative	John Crawley	41.7	1,658	1,663	1,679	1,840
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Mason	10.2	405	443	485
	Labour	John Bennett	2.9	114	126
	Green	Peter Kennedy	2.8	112
Electorate: 11,893   Valid: 3,972   Spoilt: 34   Quota: 1,987   Turnout: 4,006 (33.7%)

2017 election

2017 Aberdeenshire Council election^[5]

Ellon and District - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Conservative	Gillian Louise Owen (incumbent)	40.94	2,258
	Liberal Democrats	Isobel Davidson (incumbent)	19.71	1,087	1,703.86
	SNP	Richard Thomson (incumbent)	17.9	987	1,034.02	1,093.74	1,264.34
	SNP	Anouk Kloppert	13.93	768	793.55	843.88	1,024.70
	Labour	John Morgan	7.52	415	548.39	835.99
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 5,515   Spoilt: 64   Quota: 1,104   Turnout: 5,579 (47.2%)

2012 election

2012 Aberdeenshire Council election^[6]

Ellon and District - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Rob Merson (incumbent)	39.04	1,644
	Conservative	Gillian Louise Owen (incumbent)	16.74	705	748.8	761.6	839.4	867.1
	Liberal Democrats	Isobel Davidson (incumbent)	16.36	689	760.6	800.9	918.6
	SNP	Richard Thomson	11.26	474	1,055.3
	Labour	Peter Thomas Smyth	9.48	399	426.8	457.8	511.5	531.5
	Independent	Sandy Allan	7.12	300	325.8	361.7
Electorate: 11,173   Valid: 4,211   Spoilt: 51   Quota: 843   Turnout: 4,262 (37.69%)

2007 election

2007 Aberdeenshire Council election

Ellon and District

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Rob Merson	40.5	2,458
	Liberal Democrats	Isobel Davidson	23.2	1,407
	Conservative	Gillian Louise Owen	14.4	872	1,033	1,053	1,197	1,274
	Liberal Democrats	Debra Margaret Storr††	8.6	524	777	899	1,049	1,326
	Labour	Ann Thorpe	7.5	456	587	599	648
	Independent	Diane Ripley	5.8	352	542	555
Electorate: -   Valid: 6,069   Spoilt: 69   Quota: 1,214   Turnout: 55.37%

By-election

Following the election of Richard Thomson (SNP) to Westminster at the 2019 United Kingdom general election on 12 December and his subsequent resignation as Councillor for Ellon & District ward a by-election was called on Thursday, 15 October 2020.^[7]

2020 By-election

Ellon & District By-election 2020 - Aberdeenshire Council^[8]

Ellon & District - 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Louise McAllister	42.01%	1,683	1,725	1,757	1,916	2,377
	Conservative	John Paul Crawley	41.39%	1,658	1,663	1,679	1,840
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Booth Mason	10.11%	405	443	485
	Labour	John David Bennett	2.85%	114	126
	Green	Peter Alexander Kennedy	2.80%	112
Electorate: 11,893   Valid: 3,972   Spoilt: 34   Quota: 1,986   Turnout: 33.7%