Falkirk Council election, 2012

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3 May 2012 (2012-05-03)

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All 32 seats to Falkirk Council
17 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Craig Martin	David Alexander	Billy Buchannan
Party	Labour	SNP	Independent
Leader's seat	Carse, Kinnaird & Tryst	Falkirk North	Bonnybridge and Larbert
Last election	14 seats, 43.8%	13 seats, 40.6%	3 seats, 9.4%
Seats before	14	13	1
Seats won	14	13	1
Seat change	-	-	-

	Fourth party

Leader	John Patrick
Party	Conservative
Leader's seat	Falkirk South
Last election	2 seats, 6.3%
Seats before	2
Seats won	2
Seat change	-

Council Leader before election

Craig Martin
Labour

Council Leader after election

Craig Martin
Labour

Elections to Falkirk Council were held on 3 May 2012, the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the nine wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 32 councillors being elected. Each ward elected either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

The election saw Labour remain the largest party on the Council despite being outpolled in terms of votes by the Scottish National Party. The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party saw their vote share fall but held their Council seats and Independents returned 3 seats as they did in the 2007 Local Elections.

Following the election, the controlling administration consists of 14 Labour members, 2 Conservative and 1 Independent (Cllr Buchanan). Opposition is 13 SNP members and 2 Independent (Cllrs Spears and McCabe). The Council Leader is Cllr Craig C Martin, Provost is Cllr Reid and the Depute Provost Cllr Patrick.

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/corporate_neighbourhood/policy_performance_review/research_information/ward_constituency_profiles/election_results/local_results/local_election_12/local_election_12.aspx

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