Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2003 Dumfries and Galloway Council election |
Previous Year: | 2003 |
Next Election: | 2012 Dumfries and Galloway Council election |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Seats For Election: | All 47 seats to Dumfries and Galloway Council |
Majority Seats: | 24 |
Party1: | Scottish Conservatives |
Party2: | Scottish Labour |
Party3: | Scottish National Party |
Party4: | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
Party5: | Independent politician |
Seats1: | 18 |
Seats2: | 14 |
Seats3: | 10 |
Seats4: | 3 |
Seats5: | 2 |
Percentage1: | 32.2% |
Popular Vote1: | 20,815 |
Popular Vote2: | 18,169 |
Percentage2: | 28.1% |
Percentage3: | 19.0% |
Popular Vote3: | 12,266 |
Popular Vote4: | 5,340 |
Percentage4: | 8.3% |
Percentage5: | 11.2% |
Popular Vote5: | 7,240 |
Seat Change1: | 7 |
Seat Change3: | 5 |
Seat Change4: | 2 |
Seat Change5: | 10 |
Elections to Dumfries and Galloway 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 one using 13 new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,[1] each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 47 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.
The Conservatives increased their number of seats by seven to 18, the SNP increased by five to 10.[2] 27 of the people elected had not been councillors previously.[2]