Falkirk Council election, 2017

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4 May 2017 (2017-05-04)

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All 30 seats to Falkirk Council
16 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

David Alexander
SNP

Elections to Falkirk Council will be held on 4 May 2017, the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election will use the nine wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with 30 councillors being elected, a reduction of 2 members from 2012. Each ward will elect either 3 or 4 members, using the STV electoral system.

Following the 2012 election, the controlling administration consisted 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.

Craig Martin
Labour

David Alexander
SNP

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections in May 2012. The number of Falkirk Council seats was reduced by 2 in the 2017 election. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.

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