Midstocket/Rosemount (ward)

Midstocket/Rosemount is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeen City Council. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Bill Cormie (SNP)		Jenny Laing (Labour)		John Porter (Conservative)
2011 by-election			John Corall (SNP)
2012			Fraser Forsyth (Conservative)
2015 by-election			Alex Nicoll (SNP)
2017			Tom Mason (Conservative)
2022	Jennifer Bonsell (Labour)		Emma Farquhar (Conservative)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeen City Council election

Midstocket/Rosemount – 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Bill Cormie (incumbent)	27.0	1,264
	Conservative	Emma Farquhar	24.5	1,150	1,153	1,221
	Labour	Jennifer Bonsell	21.5	1,007	1,014	1,136	1,160	1,334
	SNP	William MacKenzie	10.8	507	571	585	587	815
	Green	Alex Jarvis	9.3	435	442	514	517
	Liberal Democrats	William Sell	7.0	326	328
Electorate: 10,979   Valid: 4,689   Spoilt: 85   Quota: 1,173   Turnout: 43.5%

Source:^[2][3]

Elections in the 2010s

2017 Aberdeen City Council election: 4 May 2017^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Tom Mason	27.7%	1,318
	SNP	Bill Cormie (incumbent)	25.1%	1,195
	Labour	Jenny Laing (incumbent)‡	19.7%	935	960.05	960.4	971.05	1,040.2	1,154.2	1,283.3
	SNP	Derek Davidson	8.4%	398	399.2	403.8	403.8	491.1	524.9	604.5
	Independent	Dustin MacDonald	6.5%	311	323.8	323.9	379.3	419.7	492.4
	Green	Alex Jarvis	5.4%	256	260.5	260.8	268.4
	Liberal Democrats	William Sell	5.2%	245	270.01	272.1	292.9	332.05
	Independent	Bill Robb	2%	97	117.4	117.5
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 4,755   Spoilt: 80   Quota: 1,189   Turnout: 4,835 (44.3%)

Midstocket/Rosemount By-election (1 October 2015) - 1 Seat^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	SNP	Alex Nicoll	40.9%	1,168	1,225	1,275	1,433
	Conservative	Tom Mason	23.6%	672	687	771	927
	Labour	Howard Gemmell	21.2%	605	629	692
	Liberal Democrats	Ken McLeod	8.3%	238	270
	Green	Jennifer Phillips	6.0%	170
Electorate: 11,825   Valid: 2,853   Spoilt: 19   Quota: 1,427   Turnout: 2,872 (24.29%)

2012 Aberdeen City Council election: 3 May 2012

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Jenny Laing (incumbent)††	32.4%	1,247
	SNP	Bill Cormie (incumbent)	32.1%	1,233
	Conservative	Fraser Forsyth†††	13.8%	531	555.7	579.9	600.2	686.1	751.7	867.6
	SNP	Iolanda Serci	6.9%	264	292.8	458.5	468.2	498.2	580.9
	Green	John Laing McCallum	6.4%	245	315.8	333.9	360.7	461.3
	Liberal Democrats	William Sell	6.4%	245	282.3	299.2	321.5
	Independent	Patrick McGuire	2.1%	82	102.8	112.2
Electorate: 3,895   Valid: 3,847   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 962   Turnout: (33.38%)

Midstocket/Rosemount by-election 16 August 2011 - 1 Seat^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	John Corall	29.5	873	875	885	984	1,258
	Conservative	Fraser Forsyth	27.8	821	825	826	873	1,122
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Delaney	23.4	693	700	708	869
	Labour	Allan McIntosh	17.5	518	520	529
	Solidarity	Stephen Haddan	1.1	31	33
	Independent	Dennis Grattan	0.7	20
	SNP gain from Conservative		Swing
Electorate: 10,288   Valid: 2,956   Spoilt: 21   Quota: 1,479   Turnout: 2,977 (28.9%)

Elections in the 2000s

2007 Aberdeen City Council election: 3 May 2007

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Conservative	John Porter	27.7	1,503
	SNP	Bill Cormie	26.3	1,431	1,431
	Labour	Jenny Laing	21.1	1,144	1,164	1,176	1,223	1,281
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Delaney	12.4	671	689	702	753	1,201
	Liberal Democrats	Jim Donaldson	9.7	529	563	570	586
	Scottish Socialist	Christine Chandler	2.8	153	155	167
Electorate:     Valid: 5,431   Spoilt: 60   Quota: 1,358   Turnout: 5,491