2017 Aberdeen City Council election

2017 Aberdeen City Council election

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All 45 seats to Aberdeen City Council 23 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	37.6%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Stephen Flynn Douglas Lumsden Jenny Laing Party SNP Conservative Labour Leader's seat Kincorth/Nigg/Cove Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee Midstocket/Rosemount Last election 15 seats, 31.3% 3 seats, 9.7% 17 seats, 29.7% Seats won 19 11 9 Seat change 4 8 8 Popular vote 22,690 17,427 11,784 Percentage 32.6% 25.0% 16.9% Swing 1.3% 15.4% 12.8%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Ian Yuill Marie Boulton Party Liberal Democrats Independent Leader's seat Airyhall/Broomhill/Garthdee Lower Deeside Last election 5 seats, 15.1% 3 seats, 11.2% Seats won 4 2 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 10,753 5,195 Percentage 15.4% 7.9% Swing 0.3% 3.3%
The 13 multi-member wards
Council Leader before election Jenny Laing Labour Council Leader after election Jenny Laing Labour (suspended)

The 2017 Aberdeen City Council election took place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Aberdeen City Council. The election used the 13 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 form of proportional representation, with a total of 45 Councillors elected, an increase in two members from 2012.

The Scottish National Party won 19 seats, the Scottish Conservatives won 11, Scottish Labour won nine, the Scottish Liberal Democrats won four and there were two independent members. On 11 May, the Lib Dems, ruled out entering into a formal coalition and instead would "consider every issue before the council on its merits on a case-by-case basis."^[1]

On 17 May, an agreement was reached to form a coalition between the Tories, Labour and the three independent councillors, up from two after councillor Jennifer Stewart resigned from the Liberal Democrat group to sit as an Independent and give the coalition an overall majority.^[2] The coalition agreed by Aberdeen's Labour councillors was without the party executive's approval and so the councillors were told to withdraw from the deal by 5pm on 17 May or face suspension. The deadline passed without any change to the coalition and as such, all 9 Labour councillors were suspended from the party.^[3]

In August, the co-leadership was ratified by a meeting of the full council, appointing Douglas Lumsden (Con) & Jenny Laing (Lab) as co-leaders.