Turriff and District is one of the nineteen wards used to elect members of the Aberdeenshire Council. Until 2017 three councillors were elected in this ward following the fifth statutory Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland review 2016, now Turriff and District elects four Councillors. [2]
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Sandy Duncan (SNP / Independent) | Anne Robertson (Liberal Democrats) | Alisan Norrie (Independent) | 3 seats | ||||
| 2012 | ||||||||
| 2017 | Alastair Forsyth (SNP) | Iain Taylor (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Gordon Lang (Conservative) | Anne Stirling (Liberal Democrats) | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Conservative | Iain Walker Taylor (incumbent) | 23.8 | 1,075 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Stirling (incumbent) [note 1] | 23.5 | 1,059 | |||||
| SNP | Alastair Forsyth (incumbent) | 17.5 | 792 | 798 | 825 | 869 | 1,624 | |
| SNP | Susan Dubois | 16.4 | 740 | 741 | 751 | 823 | ||
| Conservative | Gordon Lang | 15.3 | 690 | 839 | 881 | 895 | 904 | |
| Scottish Green | Kathryn Louise Vincent | 3.5 | 159 | 161 | 186 | |||
| Electorate: 10,429 Valid: 4,515 Spoilt: 105 Quota: 904 Turnout: 44.3% | ||||||||
2017 Aberdeenshire Council election [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Conservative | Iain Taylor* | 37.36% | 1,854 | |||||
| SNP | Alastair Forsyth | 25.39% | 1,260 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Robertson (incumbent) | 19.77% | 981 | 1,324 | ||||
| Independent | Sandy Duncan (incumbent) | 10.96% | 544 | 682 | 802 | 918 | 1,262 | |
| Independent | Mike Rawlins | 6.53% | 324 | 429 | 514 | 559 | ||
| Electorate: TBC Valid: 4,963 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 993 Turnout: 46.8% | ||||||||
2012 Aberdeenshire Council election [6]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Sandy Duncan (incumbent) | 34.24 | 1,165 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Robertson (incumbent) | 18.43 | 627 | 652.6 | 664.7 | 842.1 | 999.0 | |
| Independent | Alisan Keith Norrie (incumbent) | 16.58 | 564 | 590.4 | 609.9 | 808.8 | 1,016.9 | |
| Conservative | Jayne James Duff | 15.93 | 542 | 556.6 | 569.8 | |||
| SNP | Colin Graham Mair | 12.70 | 432 | 658.4 | 667.7 | 742.1 | ||
| Scottish Christian | Norman Alexander Ogston | 2.12 | 72 | 74.9 | ||||
| Electorate: 9,157 Valid: 3,402 Spoilt: 53 Quota: 851 Turnout: 3,455 (37.15%) | ||||||||
2007 Aberdeenshire Council election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Sandy Duncan | 41.9 | 1,916 | |||||
| Conservative | Alistair Duffus Strachan | 17.4 | 796 | 882 | 901 | 932 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne Robertson | 17.3 | 790 | 948 | 962 | 1,071 | 1,372 | |
| Independent | Alisan Norrie | 16.4 | 748 | 900 | 935 | 971 | 1,304 | |
| Labour | Ann Marie Sheal | 5.1 | 232 | 270 | 279 | |||
| BNP | Gary Raikes | 1.9 | 87 | 119 | ||||
| Electorate: - Valid: 4,569 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,143 Turnout: 53.53% | ||||||||
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