Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2003 Inverclyde Council election |
Previous Year: | 2003 |
Next Election: | Inverclyde Council election, 2012 |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Seats For Election: | All 20 seats to Inverclyde Council |
Majority Seats: | 11 |
Party1: | Scottish Labour Party |
Seats1: | 9 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Popular Vote1: | 12,194 |
Percentage1: | 37.9% |
Swing1: | 6.6% |
Party2: | Scottish National Party |
Seats2: | 5 |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
Popular Vote2: | 6,907 |
Percentage2: | 21.5% |
Swing2: | 6.7% |
Party3: | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
Seats3: | 4 |
Seat Change3: | 9 |
Popular Vote3: | 6,525 |
Percentage3: | 20.3% |
Swing3: | 22.3% |
Party4: | Independent (politician) |
Seats4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 3,451 |
Percentage4: | 10.7% |
Swing4: | 7.2% |
Party5: | Scottish Conservative Party |
Seats5: | 1 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 2,778 |
Percentage5: | 8.6% |
Swing5: | 2.5% |
Elections to Inverclyde Council were held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six new wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004; each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system, a form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 20 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.
On 27 November 2008 Inverclyde North Cllr Charles McCallum resigned from the Labour Party and sat as an Independent for the remainder of the term.
In February 2011, Argyll News reported that Inverclyde West Councillor George White was a former Liberal Democrat who had recently joined the Liberal Party.[1]
A by-election was held following the death of Cllr Ken Ferguson of the Scottish National Party on 26 April 2009. The seat was held by the SNP's Innes Nelson on 18 June 2009.