Montrose and District (ward)

Montrose and District is one of the eight wards used to elect members of the Angus Council. It elects four Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		David May (Liberal Democrats)		Sandy West (SNP)		Paul Valentine (SNP)		Mark Salmond (Ind.)
2012	Bill Duff (SNP)
2017			Tommy Stewart (Ind.)		Ron Sturrock (Conservative)
2022		Iain Gall (Conservative)			Kenny Braes (SNP)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Angus Council election

Montrose and District – 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Conservative	Iain Gall	22.3	1,124
	SNP	Kenny Braes[note 1]	21.6	1,090
	SNP	Bill Duff (incumbent)	17.7	894	896	966	972	976	1,059
	Independent	Tommy Stewart (incumbent)	14.5	732	749	750	763	784	808	815	903	1,377
	Independent	Mark Salmond (incumbent)	9.9	499	532	534	554	587	612	620	729
	Labour	John Ruddy	6.5	330	341	342	344	392	426	433
	Scottish Green	Jamie Adams	3.6	180	183	185	192	209
	Liberal Democrats	Angela Noble	2.7	139	154	155	163
	Independent	James Boag	1.2	61	66	66
Electorate: 12,016   Valid: 5,049   Spoilt: 84   Quota: 1,010   Turnout: 42.7%

Source:^[2][3]

2017 election

2017 Angus Council election^[4]

Montrose and District - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Conservative	Ron Sturrock	27.9%	1,375
	SNP	Bill Duff (incumbent)	23.2%	1,142
	Independent	Mark Salmond (incumbent)	13.9%	687	797	809	867	983	1,175
	Independent	Tommy Stewart	13.2%	653	727	732	770	852	1,011
	SNP	Gill Stranock	11.6%	570	574	692	715	768
	Labour	Pamela Ruddy	6.6%	323	358	365	428
	Liberal Democrats	Avril Simpson	1.7%	178	240	242
Electorate: 12,058   Valid: 4,928   Spoilt: 88   Quota: 986   Turnout: 41.6%

2012 election

2012 Angus Council election

Montrose and District - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Mark Salmond (incumbent)	22.61%	891
	SNP	Bill Duff	20.69%	815
	SNP	Paul Michael Valentine (incumbent)	18.43%	726	743.1	764.1	821.1
	Liberal Democrats	David May (incumbent)	16.29%	642	678.2	680.9	757.7	765.1	1,119.2
	Conservative	Andrew Boyd	14.37%	566	588.9	589.6	617	621.2
	Labour	Ina Paton	7.61%	300	308.4	309.1
Electorate: 11,434   Valid: 3,940   Spoilt: 54   Quota: 789   Turnout: 3,994 (34.46%)

2007 election

2007 Angus Council election

2007 Council election: Montrose and District

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Mark Salmond	1,550	28.1	1	1
	SNP	Sandy West	832	15.1	4	5
	SNP	Paul Valentine	809	14.7	3	5
	Liberal Democrats	David May	660	12.0	2	5
	Conservative	Ingram Bruce	645	11.7
	Labour	James Sinclair	529	9.6
	Independent	Joe Wishart	490	8.9

Notes

1. Sitting councillor for Brechin and Edzell.

References

1. "Scottish Boundary Commission | he Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland".
2. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 8 Montrose and District" (PDF). Angus Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
3. "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report Ward 8 Montrose and District" (PDF). Angus Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
4. "Ward 1 - Kirriemuir and Dean - Scottish Local Government Elections 4 May 2017 - Results - Angus Council". Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2020.