2007 East Lothian Council election

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All 23 seats to East Lothian Council
12 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	SNP	Liberal Democrats
Last election	17 seats, 40.6%	1 seat, 19.2%	1 seat, 14.9%
Seats before	17	1	1
Seats won	7	7	6
Seat change	10	6	5

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Conservative	Independent
Last election	4 seats, 23.1%	0 seats, 0.6%
Seats before	4	0
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	2	1

The multi-member wards

Council Leader before election

Labour

Council Leader after election

Paul Stewart McLennan
SNP

Elections to East Lothian Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election.

The election was the first using seven new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system of proportional representation. The wards replaced 23 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.

The Labour majority administration was replaced by a coalition between the SNP and Liberal Democrats, led by the SNP's Paul Stewart McLennan.

Election results

East Lothian Local Election Result 2007^[1]^[2]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	7	N\A	N\A	-9	30.4	32.6	13,514
SNP	7	N\A	N\A	+6	30.4	26.9	11,157
Liberal Democrats	6	N\A	N\A	+5	26.1	15.4	6,391
Conservative	2	N\A	N\A	-2	8.7	17.4	7,209
Scottish Green	0	N\A	N\A	0	0.0	1.6	674
Solidarity	0	N\A	N\A	0	0.0	0.5	221
Scottish Senior Citizens	0	N\A	N\A	0	0.0	0.2	75
Independent	1	N\A	N\A	0	4.3	5.3	2,200

Ward results

Musselburgh West
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
SNP	John Williamson	1,427	30.7	1	1
Labour	John McNeil	1,144	24.6	2	2
Liberal Democrats	Barry Turner	857	18.4	3	5
Labour	John Ross	572	12.3
Conservative	Robert Fairnie	499	10.7
Solidarity	Jack Fraser	153	3.3

Musselburgh East and Carberry
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
SNP	Roger Knox	1,256	25.1	1	1
Labour	Andy Forrest	1,057	21.1	2	5
Independent	John Caldwell	937	18.7	3	6
Liberal Democrats	Jenny Mollison	809	16.2
Labour	Pat O'Donnell	585	11.7
Conservative	Ian Robertson	281	5.6
Scottish Senior Citizens	Alan Eeles	75	1.5

Preston/Seton/Gosford
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
Labour	Willie Innes	2,205	30.5	1	1
SNP	Peter MacKenzie	1,906	26.4	2	1
Conservative	Michael Veitch	1,040	14.4
Labour	Margaret Libberton	927	12.8	3	3
Liberal Democrats	Stuart Currie†	909	12.6	4	5
Independent	Andy Spence	244	3.4

Fa'side
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
SNP	Kenny McLeod	2,065	30.4	1	1
Labour	Jim Gillies	1,348	19.8	2	2
Labour	Donald Grant	1,118	16.4	4	4
Liberal Democrats	Ruth Currie††	892	13.1	3	4
Labour	Robert McNeill	835	12.3
Conservative	Henry Murray-Smith	540	7.9

North Berwick Coastal
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
Conservative	Neil Rankin	1,837	29.7	1	1
SNP	David Berry	1,670	27.0	2	1
Labour	Pat Hanson	980	15.8
Liberal Democrats	Stuart MacKinnon	747	12.1	3	5
Conservative	Kathryn Smith	565	9.1
Scottish Green	Susan Moffat	393	6.3

Haddington and Lammermuir
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
Conservative	Ludovic Broun-Lindsay	1,317	22.6	1	4
SNP	Tom Trotter	1,107	19.0	3	4
Liberal Democrats	Sheena Richardson	1,041	17.9	2	4
Independent	Charles Ingle	1,019	17.5
Labour	Ann McCarthy	985	16.9
Scottish Green	Eurig Scandrett	281	4.8
Solidarity	Gary Galbraith	68	1.2

Dunbar and East Linton
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
SNP	Paul McLennan	1,726	30.0	1	1
Liberal Democrats	Jacquie Bell	1,136	19.8	3	3
Conservative	Katie Mackie	1,130	19.7
Labour	Norman Hampshire	1,033	18.0	2	3
Labour	Herbert Coutts	725	12.6

Changes after 2007

† Stuart Currie defected from the Liberal Democrats and joined the Scottish National Party on 11 August 2009
†† Ruth Currie defected from the Liberal Democrats and joined the Scottish National Party on 11 August 2009

References

^ "Scottish Council Elections 2007 Results and Statistics" (PDF). The Elections Centre. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
^ "Local Election Results 2007 - East Lothian". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 18 February 2024.

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