2022 Scottish Borders Council election

2022 Scottish Borders Council election
	5 May 2022
All 34 seats to Scottish Borders Council; 18 seats needed for a majority
Council Leader before election; Mark Rowley; Conservative	Council Leader after election ; Euan Jardine; Conservative

2022 Elections to Scottish Borders Council were held on 5 May 2022, the same day as the other Scottish local elections.

The Scottish Greens won their first ever seat on the council.^[1]

Following the election, an administration was formed with the Conservatives and Independent Councillors Caroline Cochrane, Stuart Marshall, and Watson McAteer.

Conservative Councillors Euan Jardine from Galashiels & District, and Scott Hamilton from Jedburgh & District, were elected as Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council respectively.^[2]^[3] Independent Councillor Watson McAteer was elected as Convener.^[2]

Results

2022 Scottish Borders Council election result
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Conservative	14	0	1	1	41.2	31.0	13,992	10.6
SNP	9	0	0	0	26.5	21.0	9,475	0.4
Independent	7	0	1	1	20.6	24.2	10,912	0.4
Liberal Democrats	3	1	0	1	8.82	9.8	4,416	1.6
Scottish Green	1	1	0	1	2.9	8.0	3,627	5.8
Labour	0	0	0	0	0.0	5.2	2,345	3.4
Scottish Family	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.4	179	New
Alba	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.1	53	New
Vanguard Party	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	74	New
Scottish Eco Federalist Party	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.05	24	New

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 4 May 2017. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

Ward results

Source:^[4]

Tweeddale West

2017: 1xLib Dem; 1xCon; 1xSNP
2022: 1xLib Dem; 1xCon; 1xSNP
2017-2022 Change: No Change

Tweeddale West - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Viv Thomson	26.2	1,266
	Liberal Democrats	Drummond Begg	22.8	1,100	1,107.8	1,257.6
	Conservative	Eric Small	18.5	893	894.3	915.4	926.6	1,338.5
	Scottish Green	Dominic Ashmole	16.4	792	829.3	905.3	926.8	947.3
	Conservative	John Smith	9.7	466	466.4	472.4	476.2
	Labour	Julia Reid	6.5	312	316.4
Electorate: 8,517 Valid: 4,829 Spoilt: 58 Quota: 1,208 Turnout: 57.4%

Tweeddale East

2017: 1xCon; 1xSNP; 1xInd
2022: 1xSNP; 1xCon; 1xInd
2017-2022 Change: No Change

Tweeddale East - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	SNP	Marshall Douglas	30.3	1,485
	Conservative	Julie Pirone	22.5	1,102	1,106.7	1,107.7	1,148.6	1,253.3
	Independent	Robin Tatler	18.3	896	929.9	933.6	1,031.7	1,293.7
	Liberal Democrats	David Pye	9.9	483	506.2	507.2	649.1
	Scottish Green	Ellie Clarke	9.6	469	604.7	607	718.3
	Labour	Robert Bon	9.2	449	481.2	482.2
	Vanguard	Calum Watt	0.2	11	11.9
Electorate: 9,117 Valid: 4,895 Spoilt: 24 Quota: 1,224 Turnout: 54.0%

Galashiels and District

2017: 1xSNP; 1xCon; 2xIndependent
2022: 1xSNP; 1xCon; 1xLib Dem, 1XGrn
2017-2022 Change: Lib Dem and Green gain one seat each from Independents.

Galashiels and District - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	SNP	Fay Sinclair	35.9	1,637
	Conservative	Euan Jardine (incumbent)	26.4	1,205
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Steel	10.6	483	581.8	658.6	662.8	667.1	697.1	777.4	995.6
	Scottish Green	Neil MacKinnon	9.0	412	786.2	796.7	809.9	814.8	855.9	889.8	984.4
	Independent	Bill White	6.9	315	364.6	415.9	416.2	426.6	508.9	706.3
	Independent	Harry Scott	5.4	246	272.6	314.6	318.8	321.3	398.6
	Independent	Duck Frater	4.4	199	230.0	252.9	257.5	272.5
	Vanguard	Michael Banks	0.8	36	43.5	47.9	49.8
	Scottish Eco Federalist Party	James Clark	0.5	24	30.2	32.9
Electorate: 11,639 Valid: 4,557 Spoilt: 43 Quota: 912 Turnout: 39.5%

Selkirkshire

2017: 1xCon; 1xSNP; 1xIndependent
2022: 1xIndependent; 1xCon; 1xSNP;
2017-2022 Change: Independent (Cochrane) gains from Independent (Edgar).

Selkirkshire - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	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%

Leaderdale and Melrose

2017: 1xIndependent; 1xCon; 1xSNP
2022: 1xIndependent; 1xCon; 1xSNP
2017-2022 Change: No Change

Leaderdale and Melrose - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	David Parker (incumbent)	34.3	1,594
	Conservative	Jenny Linehan	24.4	1,133	1,241.4
	SNP	John Paton-Day	19.7	918	1,003.4	1,004.4	1,006.2	1,111.2	1,180.1
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Johnson	12.7	589	686.9	718.7	724.4	791.8	905.9
	Labour	Michael Scott	4.5	207	240.3	247.0	250.2	284.3
	Scottish Green	Michael Needham	4.3	199	227.7	229.4	231.4
	Vanguard	Chris Stefanek	0.2	10	14.6	16.8
Electorate: 9,107 Valid: 4,650 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 1,163 Turnout: 51.5%

Mid Berwickshire

2017: 2xCon; 1xSNP
2022: 2xCon; 1xSNP
2017-2022 Change: No change

Mid Berwickshire - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	John Greenwell (incumbent)	29.0	1,213
	SNP	Donald Moffat (incumbent)	25.8	1,079
	Conservative	Mark Rowley (incumbent)	17.1	715	842.8	844.3	891.1	919.3	942.4	1,162.9
	Liberal Democrats	Yvonne Huggins-Haig	11.5	479	491.3	496.5	519.4	620.9	829.6
	Scottish Green	Gail Jackson	6.9	292	294.8	309.3	328.1	396.7
	Labour	David Smith	6.1	254	259.1	264.1	272.3
	Scottish Family	Hamish Goldie-Scot	3.5	146	148.4	149.6
Electorate: 8,817 Valid: 4,178 Spoilt: 81 Quota: 1,045 Turnout: 48.3%

East Berwickshire

2017: 2 x Conservative; 1 x SNP
2022: 1 x Conservative; 1x SNP; 1 x Independent
2017-2022 Change: 1 x Independent gain from Conservative

East Berwickshire - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Conservative	Carol Hamilton (incumbent)	31.3	1,328
	SNP	Aileen Orr	21.2	899	901.2	904.2	995.2	1,078.8
	Independent	James Anderson	13.3	562	572.7	576.7	604.7	668.9	672.7	913.7	1,123.7
	Independent	Raquel Lloyd-Jones	10.9	466	483.6	487.8	525.4	615.8	620.9
	Conservative	Lynda Jones	9.7	409	624.5	632.3	643.3	666.3	666.9	757.9
	Labour	Paul Stirton	6.9	296	299.8	300.8	355.2
	Scottish Green	Peter Guthrie	5.8	245	248.0	249.2
	Scottish Family	Edward Prentice	0.8	33	35.0
Electorate: 9,029 Valid: 4,238 Spoilt: 49 Quota: 1,060 Turnout: 47.5%

Kelso and District

2017: 2 x Conservative, 1 x Liberal Democrat
2022: 2 x Conservative, 1 x Liberal Democrat
2017-2022 Change: No Change

Kelso and District - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Liberal Democrats	Euan Robson (incumbent)	29.8	1,169
	Conservative	Tom Weatherston (incumbent)	24.0	942	987.7
	Conservative	Simon Mountford (incumbent)	23.1	904	926.8	932.2	932.2	937.1	973.8	1,111.3
	Scottish Green	Shelagh King	13.2	518	560.9	561.1	564.6	575.2	736.2
	Labour	Wilson George	7.7	301	331.2	331.4	336.7	392.3
	Labour	Kenryck Lloyd-Jones	1.8	69	81.7	81.8	82.3
	Vanguard	Sunny Smith	0.4	17	19.3	19.3
Electorate: 8,499 Valid: 3,920 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 981 Turnout: 46.9%

Jedburgh and District

2017: 2 x Conservative, 1 x SNP
2022: 2 x Conservative, 1 x SNP
2017-2022 Change: No change

Jedburgh and District - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Scott Hamilton (incumbent)	31.1	1,089
	SNP	Pam Brown	23.1	809	814.3	829.5	840.5	930.5
	Conservative	Sandy Scott (incumbent)	19.2	675	823.5	827.9	840.4	858.4	860.8	1,076.9
	Independent	John Bathgate	15.1	529	558.0	564.8	614.9	706.3	726.9
	Scottish Green	Charles Strang	7.1	250	254.5	261.5	273.9
	Independent	Jesse Rae	2.9	102	106.5	110.7
	Alba	Yvonne Ridley	1.5	53	55.5
Electorate: 7,212 Valid: 3,507 Spoilt: 53 Quota: 877 Turnout: 49.4%

Hawick and Denholm

2017: 1 x Independent; 1 x Conservative, 1 x SNP
2022: 2 x Independent; 1 x Conservative
2017-2022 Change: 1 x Independent gain from SNP

Hawick and Denholm - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Stuart Marshall (incumbent)	69.2	2,265
	Independent	Clair Ramage (incumbent)*	9.7	316	899.9
	Conservative	Neil Richards (incumbent)	9.4	309	441.2	451.3	465.9	541.4	680.2
	Scottish Green	Catriona Hamilton	4.5	147	224.3	242.4	312.5	375.8
	Labour	Kay Hughes	3.7	120	188.9	197.9
	Independent	Trevor Adams	3.5	114	232.8	253.3	291.8
Electorate: 7,173 Valid: 3,271 Spoilt: 30 Quota: 818 Turnout: 46.0%

Clair Ramage was elected as an SNP Councillor in the 2017 election for Hawick & Denholm

Hawick and Hermitage

2017: 2 x Independent; 1 x Conservative
2022: 1 x Independent; 1 x Conservative; 1 x SNP
2017-2022 Change: 1 x SNP gain from Independent

Hawick and Hermitage - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Watson McAteer (incumbent)	48.5	1,477
	Conservative	Jane Cox	18.4	560	674.2	681.2	692.2	732.4	904.1
	SNP	Annette Smart	16.7	509	565.2	607.9	638.3	671.6	765.4
	Independent	Cameron Knox	6.3	191	522.6	534.4	555.7	601.2
	Labour	Robert Leach	3.7	114	131.4	148.9
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemary Webster	3.7	113	153.2	162.6	202.4
	Scottish Green	Kevin Ferguson	2.7	81	101.8
Electorate: 7,070 Valid: 3,045 Spoilt: 32 Quota: 762 Turnout: 43.5%

References

^ "Scottish election results 2022: First Green for Scottish Borders Council". BBC News. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Agenda for Scottish Borders Council on Thursday, 19th May, 2022, 10.00 am". scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
^ "Agenda for Scottish Borders Council on Thursday, 26th May, 2022, 10.00 am". scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
^ Council, Scottish Borders. "2022 Local Government Election information | Scottish Borders Council". www.scotborders.gov.uk.

[result-1] "Scottish election results 2022: First Green for Scottish Borders Council". BBC News. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.

[Statutory,_Scottish_Borders_Council_-_Thursday,_19th_May,_2022_10.00_am-2] "Agenda for Scottish Borders Council on Thursday, 19th May, 2022, 10.00 am". scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.

[3] "Agenda for Scottish Borders Council on Thursday, 26th May, 2022, 10.00 am". scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk. 26 May 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.

[4] Council, Scottish Borders. "2022 Local Government Election information | Scottish Borders Council". www.scotborders.gov.uk.

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Scottish Borders Regional Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 Abolished
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