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West Dunbartonshire Council election, 2007

West Dunbartonshire Council election, 2007
Scotland
← 2003 May 3, 2007 (2007-05-03) 2012 →

All 22 seats to West Dunbartonshire Council
12 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Martin Rooney Ronnie McColl
Party Labour SNP
Leader's seat Lomond Lomond
Last election 17 seats, 77.3% 3 seats, 13.6%
Seats before 15 3
Seats won 10 9
Seat change Decrease7 Increase6

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader George Black Jim Bollan
Party Independent Scottish Socialist
Leader's seat Dumbarton Leven
Last election 1 seat, 4.6% 1 seat, 4.6%
Seats before 4 1
Seats won 2 1
Seat change Increase1 -

Council Leader before election

Denis Agnew
Independent

Council Leader after election

Iain Robertson
SNP


Denis Agnew
Independent

Iain Robertson
SNP

Elections to West Dunbartonshire Council were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament general election. The election was the first one using six 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 22 single-member wards which used the plurality (first past the post) system of election.


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