2022 Midlothian Council election

2022 Midlothian Council election
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All 18 seats to Midlothian Council
10 seats needed for a majority
Registered75,636
Turnout42.4%
  First party Second party
 
Leader Kelly Parry Derek Milligan
Party SNP Labour
Leader's seat Midlothian West Bonnyrigg
Last election 6 seats, 37.3% 7 seats, 29.0%
Seats before 7 6
Seats after 8 7
Seat change Increase2 Steady0
  Third party
 
Leader Peter Smaill
Party Conservative
Leader's seat Midlothian East
Last election 5 seats, 23.2%
Seats before 5
Seats after 3
Seat change Decrease2
Council Leader before election

Derek Milligan
Labour

Council Leader after election

Kelly Parry
SNP

The 2022 Midlothian Council election took place on 5 May 2022 as part of the 2022 Scottish local elections. The election used the seven wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 23 councillors being elected. Each ward elected three members, using the STV electoral system.[1]

For the first time, the Scottish National Party emerged as the largest party on the council with eight seats, with Scottish Labour winning seven and the Scottish Conservatives three.[2]

  1. ^ Map showing the_Wards within the Midlothian Area
  2. ^ Sharp, Marie (7 May 2022). "SNP take most seats in Midlothian". Midlothian View. Retrieved 11 March 2023.