Helensburgh Central (ward)

Helensburgh Central is one of the eleven wards used to elect members of the Argyll and Bute Council. It elects four Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Vivien Dance (Ind.)		Gary Mulvaney (Conservative)		James Alexander Robb (SNP)		Al Reay (Liberal Democrats)
2012	Aileen Morton (Liberal Democrats)
2017			Graham Hardie (Liberal Democrats)		Lorna Douglas (SNP)
2022	Ian James MacQuire (SNP)				Fiona Howard (Labour)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Argyll and Bute Council election

Helensburgh Central − 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Gary Mulvaney (incumbent)	30.5	1,205
	SNP	Ian James MacQuire	21.4	843
	Labour	Fiona Howard	21.3	841
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Hardie (incumbent)	11.1	440	480	485	505	530	716	1,009
	Scottish Green	Sarah Davies	6.8	268	274	305	314	341
	Conservative	Alison Willmot	6.6	262	601	603	610	627	645
	Independent	James Alexander Robb	2.2	88	93	95	98
Electorate: 7,759   Valid: 3,947   Spoilt: 55   Quota: 790   Turnout: 51.6%

Source:^[2][3]

2017 election

2017 Argyll and Bute Council election^[4]

Helensburgh Central - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Conservative	Gary Mulvaney (incumbent)	46.33	1789
	SNP	Lorna Douglas	22.61	873
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Morton (incumbent)	17.97	694	1075.6
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Hardie	6.68	258	356.8	563.2	589.6	864.3
	Independent	James Alexander Robb (incumbent)	6.39	247	478.1	526.2	558.6
Electorate:     Valid: 3,861   Spoilt: 56   Quota: 773   Turnout: 3,917 (51.7%)

2012 election

2012 Argyll and Bute Council election^[5]

Helensburgh Central - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Independent	Vivien Dance (incumbent)	22.8%	749
	SNP	James Alexander Robb (incumbent)	20.91%	687
	Conservative	Gary Mulvaney (incumbent)	20.49%	673
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Morton	20.24%	665
	Independent	David Alastair Allan	11.63%	382
		Richard William Humphrey	3.93%	129
Electorate: 7,377   Valid: 3,285   Spoilt: 32   Quota: 658   Turnout: 3,317 (44.53%)

2007 election

2007 Argyll and Bute Council election^[6]

2007 Council election: Helensburgh Central

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Gary Mulvaney	1,220	27.7	1	1
	SNP	James Alexander Robb††	822	18.6	4	4
	Liberal Democrats	Aileen Morton	734	16.6
	Liberal Democrats	Al Reay†††††	728	16.5	2	4
	Independent	Vivien Dance	707	16.0	3	4
	Independent	Richard William Humphrey	198	4.5

References

1. "ArcGIS Web Application".
2. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 10 Helensburgh Central" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
3. "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 10 Helensburgh Central" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
4. "Local Government Election 4 May 2017 results". 8 May 2017.
5. "Argyll and Bute Council Election results 2012". 8 May 2020.
6. "Argyll and Bute Council election results" (PDF). Argyll and Bute Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2020.