Forfar and District (ward)

Forfar and District is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Angus Council. It elects four Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Colin Brown (Ind.)		Glennis Middleton (SNP)		William Middleton (SNP)		John Rymer (Conservative)
2012	Lynne Devine (SNP)				Ian McLaren (Ind.)
2017				Braden Davy (Conservative)
2022			Linda Clark (SNP)	Ross Greig (Conservative)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Angus Council election

Forfar and District – 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Linda Clark	23.4	1,270
	Conservative	Ross Greig	21.4	1,158
	Independent	Ian McLaren (incumbent)	16.0	869	872	893	925	959	961	1,082	1,709
	SNP	Lynne Devine (incumbent)	14.9	810	973	976	984	1,098
	Independent	Colin Brown (incumbent)	12.9	698	702	716	727	754	756	833
	Labour	Ed McAdam	5.5	298	300	309	334	366	368
	Scottish Green	Marley Hunter	4.2	228	235	237	249
	Liberal Democrats	Samuel Struth	1.7	90	91	99
Electorate: 12,325   Valid: 5,421   Spoilt: 107   Quota: 1,085   Turnout: 44.9%

Source: ^[2][3]

2017 election

2017 Angus Council election^[4]

Forfar and District - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Braden Davy	24.14%	1,333
	Independent	Colin Brown (incumbent)	19.66%	1,086	1,144
	SNP	Lynne Devine (incumbent)	17.64%	974	978	980	997	1,025	1,086	1,105
	Independent	Ian McLaren (incumbent)	14.63%	808	861	883	920	990	1,253
	SNP	Glennis Middleton (incumbent)	10.47%	578	581	582	589	597	644	656
	Independent	Ian Whyte	7.82%	432	452	459	476	516
	Labour	Ed McAdam	3.58%	198	213	214	250
	Liberal Democrats	Glen Barclay	2.06%	114	137	138
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 5,523   Spoilt: 97   Quota: 1,105   Turnout: 47.1%

2012 election

2012 Angus Council election

Forfar and District - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Lynne Devine	21.8%	986
	SNP	Glennis Middleton (incumbent)	20.52%	928
	Independent	Ian McLaren	18.59%	841	855.5	859.5	890.2	972
	Independent	Colin Brown (incumbent)	17.4%	787	798.3	802.4	820.9	1,050.4
	Conservative	John Rymer (incumbent)	10.78%	487	490.2	491.1	526.6	546.1
	Independent	Charlie Brown	7.89%	357	367	369.3	383.9
	Liberal Democrats	Avril Simpson	3.03%	137	141.4	142.6
Electorate: 11,218   Valid: 4,523   Spoilt: 53   Quota: 905   Turnout: 4,578 (40.32%)

2007 election

2007 Angus Council election

2007 Council election: Forfar and District

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Colin Brown	1,782	30.1	1	1
	SNP	Glennis Middleton	1,111	18.8	2	3
	SNP	William Middleton	1,053	17.8	3	5
	Conservative	John Rymer	878	14.8	4	7
	Labour	Mitch Cameron	526	8.9
	Liberal Democrats	Avril Simpson	495	8.4
	Independent	John Phillip	76	1.3