2007 Aberdeen City Council election

2007 Aberdeen City Council election

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All 43 seats to Aberdeen City Council
22 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Liberal Democrats SNP Labour
Last election 20 seats, 35.4% 6 seats, 23.0% 14 seats, 24.2%
Seats won 15 12 10
Seat change Decrease5 Increase6 Decrease3
Popular vote 20,845 22,791 19,003
Percentage 26.9% 29.5% 24.6%
Swing Decrease8.5% Increase6.5% Increase0.4%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party Conservative Independent
Last election 3 seats, 15.3% 0 seats, 0.5%
Seats won 5 1
Seat change Increase2 Steady0
Popular vote 10,889 2,090
Percentage 14.1% 2.7%
Swing Decrease1.2% Increase2.2%

The 13 multi-member wards

Council Leader before election


No overall control

Council Leader after election


No overall control

The 2007 Aberdeen City Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Aberdeen City Council, at the same time as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 13 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation. The new wards replaced 43 single-member wards, which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

The results saw the council remain under no overall control.[1]

  1. ^ "Aberdenn". BBC News Online. Retrieved 7 April 2011.