Midlothian West (ward)

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

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Owen Thompson (SNP)		Russell Imrie (Labour)		Les Thacker (Liberal Democrats)
2012			Andrew Coventry (SNP)
2015 by	Kelly Parry (SNP)
2017			Pauline Winchester (Conservative)
2022[2]

Election Results

2017 Election

2017 Midlothian Council election^[3]

Midlothian West - 3 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Pauline Winchester	26.9	1,503
	SNP	Kelly Parry (incumbent)	19.5	1,091	1,092.0	1,106.3	1,159.7	1,679.7
	Labour	Russell Imrie (incumbent)	12.2	684	698.8	737.5	817.0	837.3	867.9	1,443.5
	Labour	Stephen Blain	11.0	612	620.1	650.1	700.2	707.3	724.1
	SNP	David Temple	10.4	581	582.7	587.7	616.9
	Scottish Green	Helen Blackburn	8.4	468	473.4	552.3	680.8	715.9	835.8	889.4
	Independent	Andrew Coventry (incumbent)	7.4	413	435.8	484.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ross Laird	4.2	236	256.6
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 5,588   Spoilt: 91   Quota: 1,398   Turnout: 47.2%

2015 By-election

Midlothian West By-election (10 September 2015)^[5] - 1 Seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	SNP	Kelly Parry	43.2%	1,540	1,558	1,701
	Labour	Ian Miller	26.5%	945	977	1,082
	Conservative	Pauline Winchester	14.7%	524	570	618
	Scottish Green	Daya Feldwick	10.4%	372	420
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Davidson	4.5%	162
	Independent	David Tedford	0.7%	25
Electorate: 11,582   Valid: 3,568   Spoilt: 49   Quota: 1,785   Turnout: 3,617 (31.2%)

2012 Election

2012 Midlothian Council election

Midlothian West - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SNP	Andrew Coventry	21.5	930	935	943	987	1,017	1,071	1,106
	SNP	Owen Thompson (incumbent)††	18.20	789	793	805	832	861	900	960
	Labour	Russell Imrie (incumbent)	17.9	776	778	784	823	872	966	1,595
	Labour	Alex Jones	17.58	762	764	773	794	821	856
	Conservative	Andrew Hardie	10.7	462	480	497	567
	Liberal Democrats	Les Thacker (incumbent)	5.67	246	247	263	309
	Scottish Green	Helen Blackburn	5.2	226	234	258
	Independent	George McCleery	2.38	103	115
	TUSC	Lynn Leitch	0.95	41
Electorate: 10,714   Valid: 4,335   Spoilt: 54   Quota: 1,084   Turnout: 4,389 (40.46%)

2007 Election

2007 Midlothian Council election

Midlothian council election, 2007: Midlothian West

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	Owen Thompson	1,981	33.2	1	1
	Labour	Russell Imrie	1,506	25.2	2	1
	Liberal Democrats	Les Thacker	868	14.5	3	10
	Conservative	Andrew Hardie	634	10.6
	Independent	Elizabeth Veitch	259	4.3
	Independent	George Purcell	220	3.7
	Independent	Pat Kenny	188	3.2
	Scottish Socialist	Lynn Leitch	108	1.8
	Had Enough	George McCleery	105	1.8
	Solidarity	Brian Cranston	99	1.7