Turriff and District (ward)

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]

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

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)

Election Results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Aberdeenshire Council election

Turriff and District − 4 seats

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%

Source:^[3][4]

2017 Election

2017 Aberdeenshire Council election^[5]

Turriff and District - 4 seats

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 Election

2012 Aberdeenshire Council election^[6]

Turriff and District - 3 seats

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 Election

2007 Aberdeenshire Council election

Turriff and District

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%

Notes

1. Elected in 2017 as Anne Robertson.