Kilpatrick (ward)

Kilpatrick is one of the six wards used to elect members of the West Dunbartonshire Council. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

The ward covers the northern outskirts of Clydebank, namely the adjoining suburban villages of Duntocher, Faifley and Hardgate.^[2]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Jim Finn (SNP)		Margaret Bootland (Labour)		Douglas McAllister (Labour)
2012	Lawrence O'Neill (Labour)
2017
2022		Gordon Scanlan (SNP)
2024 by-election			William Rooney (Labour)

Election results

2024 by-election

In September 2024 Labour councillor and newly elected Member of Parliament Douglas McAllister resigned as a councillor. A by-election was held in the Kilpatrick ward on 28 November 2024.^[3][4]

Kilpatrick by-election (28 November 2024) - 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	William Rooney	42.75	725	731	736	753	782	814
	SNP	Marina Scanlan	30.31	514	514	518	523	559	564
	Reform UK	David Haydn Smith	10.38	176	178	184	186	191	200
	Conservative	Ewan McGinnigle	5.72	97	97	97	102	103
	Green	Paula Baker	4.30	73	83	84	95
	Scottish Liberal Democrats	Kai O'Connor	3.71	63	64	66
	Scottish Family	Andrew Muir	1.47	25	25
	Communist	Dylan McAllister	1.36	23
Electorate: 8,879   Valid: 1,696   Spoilt: 9   Quota: 849   Turnout: 19.2%

2022 election

2022 West Dunbartonshire Council election

Kilpatrick - 3 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Labour	Douglas McAllister (incumbent)	49.1	1,903
	SNP	Gordon Scanlan	25.4	986
	SNP	Marina Scanlan	12.5	486	524.2
	Labour	Lawrence O'Neill (incumbent)	7.0	272	1,020.6
	Conservative	David Jardine	5.9	229	269.7
Electorate: 8,987   Valid: 4,059   Spoilt: 183   Quota: 970   Turnout: 45.2%

2017 election

2017 West Dunbartonshire Council election^[6]

Kilpatrick - 3 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Douglas McAllister (incumbent)	40.7	1,704
	SNP	Jim Finn (incumbent)	23.1	965	1,000.9	1,019.5	1,023.2	1,738.6
	SNP	Claire Gallagher	19.1	800	827.4	838.6	842.7
	Labour	Lawrence O'Neill (incumbent)	8.8	367	886.4	1,071.4
	Conservative	Hermione Spencer	8.2	346	369.2
Electorate: 9,052   Valid: 4,182   Spoilt: 161   Quota: 1,046   Turnout: 48.0

2012 election

2012 West Dunbartonshire Council election^[8]

Kilpatrick - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Douglas McAllister (incumbent)	48.01	1,717
	SNP	Jim Finn (incumbent)	21.11	755	785.2	811.4	823.7	839.6	1,110.5
	Labour	Lawrence O'Neill (incumbent)	11.19	400	1,113.8
	SNP	Ian Dickson	7.96	285	291.2	301.4	305.5	324.4
	Independent	Walter Graham	7.27	260	284.9	321.9	336.8	388.8	408.2
	Conservative	Douglas Boyle	3.38	121	125.8	134.7	135.1
	Scottish Socialist	Dawn Fyfe	1.06	38	41.8	53.8
Electorate: 9,004   Valid: 3,576   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 895   Turnout: 3,662 (40.67%)

2007 election

2007 West Dunbartonshire Council election

West Dunbartonshire Council election, 2007: Kilpatrick

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Douglas McAllister	1,356	29.8
	Labour	Margaret Bootland	1,188	26.1
	SNP	Jim Finn	1,092	24.0
	SNP	Frank McNiff	403	8.8
	Conservative	Douglas John Boyle	378	8.3
	Scottish Socialist	Cammy Fyfe	138	3.0