Elections to Falkirk Council was held on 3 May 2007 the same day as the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using 9 new wards created as a results of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward will elect three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation. The new wards replace 32 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.