Selkirkshire (ward)

Selkirkshire is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Scottish Borders Council. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Kenneth Gunn (SNP)		Carolyn Riddelll-Carre (Conservative)		Vicky Davidson (Liberal Democrats)
2012		Gordon Edgar (Ind.)	Michelle Ballantyne (Conservative)
2017				Elaine Thornton-Nicol (SNP)
2018 by			Caroline Penman (Ind.)
2022	Caroline Cochrane (Ind.)		Leagh Douglas (Conservative)

Election Results

2022 Election

2022 Scottish Borders Council election^[2]

Selkirkshire - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Caroline Cochrane	35.5	1,423
	Conservative	Leagh Douglas	26.2	1,049
	SNP	Elaine Thornton-Nicol (incumbent)	21.8	873	943.7	945.1	1,073.2
	Labour	Scott Redpath	5.6	223	280.7	286.7	336.6
	Scottish Green	Barbra Harvie	5.5	222	266.1	268.2
	Independent	Gordon Edgar (incumbent)	5.4	217	310.2	327.3	371.7
Electorate: 8,018   Valid: 4,007   Spoilt: 34   Quota: 1,002   Turnout: 50.4%

2018 by-election

Selkirkshire By-election (22 February 2018)^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Trevor Adams	35.7	1,247	1,251	1,262	1,276	1,307	1,342
	Independent	Caroline Penman	29.7	1,040	1,049	1,080	1,125	1,231	1,522	2,028
	SNP	John Mitchell	19.8	691	717	729	758	797
	Independent	Kenneth Gunn	6.3	219	226	238	249
	Labour	Scott Redpath	3.8	134	144	158
	Liberal Democrats	Jack Clark	2.7	95	103
	Scottish Green	Barbra Harvie	2.0	70
Valid: 3,496   Spoilt: 44   Quota: 1,749   Turnout: 3,536 (45.1%)

2017 Election

2017 Scottish Borders Council election^[4]

Selkirkshire - 3 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Conservative	Michelle Ballantyne (incumbent)	27%	1,081
	SNP	Elaine Thornton-Nicol	22.2%	888	889	941	956	983	1,031
	Independent	Gordon Edgar (incumbent)	12.8%	514	524	531	569	607	646	652	847	1,083
	Conservative	Trevor Adams	15.1%	606	661	663	675	694	713	713	763
	Independent	Kenneth Gunn	9.8%	392	396	403	417	429	456	464
	Labour	Scott Redpath	3.7%	147	148	165	176	219
	Liberal Democrats	Nancy Norman	3.3%	134	136	163	171
	Independent	David Black	3.1%	123	124	125
	Scottish Green	Barbra Harvie	3%	122	123
Electorate: 7,752 (Est.)   Valid: 4,007   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,002   Turnout: 4,093 (52.8%)

2012 Election

2012 Scottish Borders Council election^[6]

Selkirkshire - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Conservative	Michelle Ballantyne	24.28	799	832
	SNP	Kenneth Gunn (incumbent)	20.39	671	696	696.8	744.9
	Liberal Democrats	Vicky Davidson (incumbent)	19.72	649	708	710.8	821.4	1,042.6
	Independent	Gordon Edgar	18.14	597	673	674.1	762.4	983.5
	Borders	Leven Brown	9.09	299	340	341.7
	Independent	Gordon Harrison	8.39	276
Electorate: 7,714   Valid: 3,291   Spoilt: 36   Quota: 823   Turnout: 3,327 (42.66%)

2007 Election

2007 Scottish Borders Council election^[7]

Scottish Borders council election, 2007: Selkirkshire

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Liberal Democrats	Vicky Davidson	1,313	29.5	1	1
	Conservative	Carolyn Riddell-Carre	1,121	25.2	2	1
	SNP	Kenneth Gunn	826	18.5	3	5
	Independent	Gordon Edgar	558	12.5
	Borders Party	Violet Baillie	360	8.1
	Independent	Alistair Pattullo	279	6.3