Lower Braes (ward)

Lower Braes is one of the nine wards used to elect members of the Falkirk Council. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Malcolm Nicol (Conservative)		Steven Jackson (SNP)		Alan Nimmo (Labour)
2012
2017	Adanna McCue (SNP)
2022	James Kerr (Conservative)	Gordon Forrest (SNP)	Anne Hannah (Labour)

Election Results

2022 Election

2022 Falkirk Council election

Lower Braes - 3 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Anne Hannah		1,393
	SNP	Gordon Forrest		1,205	1,213.21	1,237.65	1,248.06	1,330.98
	Conservative	James Kerr[UPB]		1,204	1,225.29	1,237.65	1,297.984	1,330.97
	SNP	Adanna McCue (incumbent)		825	830.32	841.55	848.75	848.91
	Scottish Green	Doug Sheehan		298	309.76	378.19	320.97
	Liberal Democrats	Hunter Ashley		167	195.32	201.86
	Alba	Scott Fallon		67	69.44
Electorate: 12,003   Valid: 5,159   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 1,290   Turnout: 43.6%

2017 Election

2017 Falkirk Council election^[3]

Lower Braes - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Conservative	Malcolm Nicol (incumbent)	34.49	1,864
	SNP	Adanna McCue	30.19	1,632
	Labour	Alan Nimmo (incumbent)	14.06	760	894.04	944.99	961.84	970.94	1,066.33	1,146.65	1,446.12
	Independent	Ricky Wilson	10.34	559	633.98	669.5	684.89	725.99	779.78	993.11
	Independent	Steven Jackson (incumbent)	5.27	285	339.93	359.32	369.06	421.23	472.93
	Scottish Green	Chris Brind	3.02	163	181.68	282.9	293.23	303.1
	Independent	Sam Hemple	1.81	98	121.07	128.28	137.12
	UKIP	Stuart Martin	0.81	44	89.04	91.96
Electorate: TBC   Valid: 5,405   Spoilt: 50   Quota: 1,352   Turnout: 5,455 (46.2%)

2012 Election

2012 Falkirk Council election^[4]

Lower Braes - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Conservative	Malcolm Nicol (incumbent)	35.99	1,447
	SNP	Steven Jackson (incumbent)	31.32	1,259
	Labour	Alan Nimmo (incumbent)	27.78	1,117
	SNP	Robbie Landsman	4.90	197
Electorate: 9,948   Valid: 4,020   Spoilt: 100   Quota: 1,068   Turnout: 4,120 (40.41%)

2007 Election

2007 Falkirk Council election^[5]

Lower Braes

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Conservative	Malcolm Nicol	2,046	35.9	1	1
	SNP	Steven Jackson	1,281	22.5	2	3
	Labour	Alan Nimmo	1,108	19.4	3	6
	Independent	Ricky Wilson	963	16.9
	Scottish Green	Norman Philip	233	4.1
	Scottish Socialist	William McSporran	74	1.3