Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart

Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart is one of the 17 wards of the City of Edinburgh Council.^[1] It elects three councillors.^[2] Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it covers a compact suburban area south-west of the centre of Edinburgh including the Chesser, Craiglockhart, Greenbank Village, Hutchison, Kingsknowe (added in a minor boundary change in 2017) and Slateford neighbourhoods, and a thin, densely populated corridor leading towards the centre taking in Fountainbridge and North Merchiston / Shandon. In 2019, the ward had a population of 23,715.^[3]

Location of the ward within Edinburgh

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Gordon Buchan (Conservative)		Andrew Burns (Labour)		Jim Lowrie (Liberal Democrats)
2012		Gavin Corbett (Green)			David Key (SNP)
2017			Andrew Johnston (Conservative)
2022[4]		Val Walker (Labour)	Christopher Cowdy (Conservative)
2025 by-election		Kevin McKay (Liberal Democrats)

Election results

2025 by-election

Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart by-election (26 June 2025) – 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Labour	Catriona Munro	20.8	1,293	1,293	1,295	1,297	1,304	1,307	1,314	1,335	1,368	1,502	1,668	2,219
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin McKay	20.4	1,269	1,270	1,270	1,276	1,279	1,285	1,288	1,321	1,364	1,480	1,867	2,316	3,409
	Green	Q Manivannan	18.2	1,133	1,135	1,136	1,136	1,138	1,157	1,166	1,175	1,187	1,595	1,636
	SNP	Murray Visentin	14.5	905	905	905	907	909	913	919	930	950
	Conservative	Mark Hooley	13.8	857	858	861	862	865	865	868	884	1,080	1,109
	Reform UK	Gary Neill	7.9	489	489	490	491	498	499	500	512
	Independent	Marc Wilkinson	1.8	111	111	118	119	120	124	130
	Independent	Steve West	0.6	39	40	45	45	45
	Independent	Bonnie Prince Bob	0.6	36	38	42	43	46	48
	Scottish Family	Richard Lucas	0.5	34	34	34	39
	Scottish Libertarian	Lukasz Furmaniak	0.4	25	26	26
	Independent	Mark Rowbotham	0.4	25	25
	Independent	Derrick Emms	0.1	9
Electorate: 18,945   Valid: 6,264   Spoilt: 39   Quota: 3,113   Turnout: 33.1%

Source: ^[5][6]

2022 election

Main article: 2022 City of Edinburgh Council election

Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Christopher Cowdy	26.6	2,399
	SNP	David Key (incumbent)	22.7	2,051	2,053	2,058	2,064	2,121	2,145	3,546
	Labour	Val Walker	22.4	2,026	2,061	2,067	2,083	2,408
	Green	Megan McHaney	19.9	1,800	1,805	1,812	1,824	1,971	2,026
	Liberal Democrats	Fraser John Ashmore Graham	7.1	642	691	700	719
	Scottish Family	Fraser Kenneth Ramsay	0.8	69	76	85
	Scottish Libertarian	Gregor Masson	0.5	41	44
Electorate: 18,284   Valid: 9,028   Spoilt: 84   Quota: 2,258   Turnout: 49.8%

Source: ^[7][8]

2017 election

Main article: 2017 City of Edinburgh Council election

2017 Council election: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart - 3 seats^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Andrew Johnston	31.80%	2,908
	Green	Gavin Corbett (incumbent)	27.61%	2,525
	SNP	David Key (incumbent)	21.04%	1,924	1,939	2,028	2,043	2,125	2,755
	Labour	Anne Wimberley	13.84%	1,266	1,395	1,458	1,482	1,864
	Liberal Democrats	Jenni Lang	5.04%	461	659	705	732
	Independent	Rojan Subramani	0.68%	62	91	101
Electorate: 17,032   Valid: 9,146   Spoilt: 59   Quota: 2,287   Turnout: 9,205 (54.0%)

2012 election

Main article: 2012 City of Edinburgh Council election

2012 Council election: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Green	Gavin Corbett	24.07%	1,789	1,801	2,004
	SNP	David Key	23.54%	1,750	1,755	1,811	1,848	1,861
	Labour	Andrew Burns (incumbent)	23.24%	1,728	1,734	1,851	1,905
	Conservative	Will Searle	21.15%	1,572	1,578	1,714	1,731	1,738
	Liberal Democrats	Jim Lowrie (incumbent)	7.34%	546	561
	Liberal	Tim Strode	0.66%	49
Electorate: 17,069   Valid: 7,434   Spoilt: 70 (0.93%)   Quota: 1,859   Turnout: 7,504 (44%)

2007 election

Main article: 2007 City of Edinburgh Council election

2007 Council election: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart (3 seats)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Gordon Buchan	27.1	2,729
	Labour	Andrew Burns	22.6	2,272	2,297.42	2,308.51	2,327.68	2,568.58
	SNP	Denis C Dixon	18.6	1,875	1,900.25	1,919.42	1,948.60	2,157.10	2,169.89
	Liberal Democrats	Jim Lowrie	17.1	1,725	1,799.83	1,811.09	1,843.70	2,357.16	2,387.72	3,430.41
	Green	Jeni MacKay	11.2	1,123	1,146.09	1,165.35	1,215.70
	Solidarity	Anne Edmonds	1.4	142	143.64	163.90
	Scottish Socialist	Barbara J. Scott	1.0	105	106.90
Electorate: 16,800   Valid: 9,970   Spoilt: 87   Quota: 2,493   Turnout: 59.9%