Sentences with phrase «snp local councillor»
Two former party rebels, former SNP local councillor Bev Gauld and former Labour councillor Danny Meikle, contest the election as independent candidates.
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Sturgeon and the SNP went into the Scottish council elections that were held on 4 May 2017, as the largest political party in the 32 local council areas in Scotland, having 424 councillors elected to serve on the councils across Scotland.
The SNP remains the largest party in local government in Scotland, but the Tories returned 276 councillors, more than double the number they secured in the last local government elections five years ago
[94] The SNP increased their number of councillors elected in 2017 than it did in 2012, with 431 being elected, compared to 425 in the 2012 local elections.
In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.
That's more hyperbole, not least because the SNP's share of the vote and number of councillors was actually up slightly on the 2012 result - no mean feat considering local government budget cuts in the interim.