Midlothian Council election, 2017

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All 18 seats to Midlothian Council
10 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Derek Milligan	Kelly Parry	Pauline Winchester
Party	Labour	SNP	Conservative
Leader's seat	Bonnyrigg	Midlothian West	Midlothian West
Last election	8 seats, 39.49%	8 seats, 39.47%	0 seats, 8.51%
Seats before	8	8	0
Seats won	7	6	5
Seat change	1	2	5

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Ian Baxter	Peter de Vink
Party	Scottish Green	Independent
Leader's seat	Bonnyrigg	Midlothian East
Last election	1 seats, 4.49%	1 seats, 3.75%
Seats before	1	1
Seats won	0	0
Seat change	1	1

Council Leader before election

Cath Johnstone
SNP

Council Leader after election

Derek Milligan
Labour

Cath Johnstone
SNP

Derek Milligan
Labour

The 2017 Midlothian Council election will take place on 4 May 2017 to elect members of Midlothian Council. The election used the six wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 18 Councillors being elected.

Following the election result, it was the first time that the Conservative party had won council seats in Midlothian after they lost their remaining seats at the 1995 election.

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.

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