Corstorphine/Murrayfield (ward)

Corstorphine/Murryfield ward
Location of the ward within Edinburgh[1]

Corstorphine/Murrayfield is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council.[2] Established in 2007 along with the other wards, it currently elects three Councillors.

As its name suggests, the ward's territory is based around the suburban communities of Corstorphine and Murrayfield in the west of the city, also including Balgreen, Broomhall, Carrick Knowe, Ravelston and Roseburn, Saughtonhall,[3] with four large open areas comprising two golf courses, Edinburgh Zoo and the playing fields surrounding Murrayfield Stadium. A minor boundary change in 2017 saw the loss of the Forrester and West Coates neighbourhoods but the addition of Wester Broom and Orchard Brae South (between Roseburn Footpath and Stewart's Melville College) – there was a slight increase in the population, which in 2019 stood at 24,192.[4]

  1. ^ "Map of City of Edinburgh wards, councillors and MSPS".
  2. ^ "United Kingdom: Scotland | Council Areas and Electoral Wards". City Population. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. ^ News Index, Edinburgh Liberal Democrats
  4. ^ Electoral Ward: Corstorphine/Murrayfield, Scottish Government Statistics